4 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The Bureau of Chemistry received $895,700, an increase of $25,000 

 beino; oranted to provide funds for the expenses of witnesses and in- 

 spectors in attending trials under the food and drugs act. The vari- 

 ous lines of work of the Bureau are provided for much as at present. 



A small increase was also granted to the Bureau of Entomology, 

 $5,000 being added for investigations in this and foreign countries to 

 discover and introduce natural enemies of the white fly. There is 

 some readjustment of the amounts allotted for the several lines of 

 w^ork, $300,000 being provided for the gipsy moth campaign, $40,600 

 for investigations of insects atfecting deciduous fruits, $25,000 for 

 those of cereal and forage plants, $47,000 for those of southern field 

 crops, $14,000 for forest insects, $16,250 for insects on truck crops and 

 stored products, $21,500 for those of citrus fruits, $10,000 for bee 

 culture, and $28,550 for other investigations. The total appropria- 

 tion for the Bureau, including statutory salaries, is $532,180. 



The total appropriation of the Office of Experiment Stations, in- 

 cluding $720,000 for experiment stations under the Hatch Act, is 

 $1,067,820, and aside from transfers to other funds is precisely as at 

 present. Of this amount $46,180 is for statutory salaries, $33,400 for 

 general expenses, $99,000 for insular stations, $10,000 for the agri- 

 cultural educational service, $10,000 for nutrition investigations, 

 $70,380 for irrigation investigations, and $78,860 for drainage inves- 

 tigations. In the case of the drainage investigations a provision was 

 inserted requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to make a special 

 report to Congress at its next session, giving the aggregate expendi- 

 tures on this work to date and the areas in the several States and Ter- 

 ritories which have been investigated. 



The section providing for the insular stations was amended to per- 

 mit the j)rinting of the publications of the Hawaii and Porto Rico 

 stations by the Department instead of in the islands as required at 

 present. A provision permitting of the expenditure of $1,500 from 

 the aj^propriation for the Guam Station for the purchase of land was 

 omitted, as the land has already been acquired. 



An innovation in the legislation affecting the insular stations is a 

 clause added by the Senate under which $5,000 of the $28,000 appro- 

 priated for the Porto Eico Station is specifically allotted to experi- 

 ments relating to the culture of coffee. This will be a continuation of 

 a line of work which has received much attention from the first. In 

 1899 Porto Rico was swept by one of the most destructive hurricanes 

 in its history and the coffee industry was all but ruined. When the 

 station was established in 1901, experiments were begun on the 

 restoration and improvement of old plantations and to determine the 

 cost of establishing new ones. These investigations have been con- 

 ducted on the Carmelita estate, where a ten-acre tract was secured to 



