404 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



horse breeding, an increase of $10,000 for poultry feeding and breed- 

 ing, and smaller increases for other purposes. The work in dairy- 

 ing receives $254,090. 



The appropriation for inspection and animal quarantine work is 

 reduced to $007,780, while that for pathological investigations of 

 animal diseases is increased to $85,940 because of the stock-poisoning 

 plant studies transferred from the Bureau of Plant Industry, The 

 supplementary appropriation for meat inspection remains at $375,000. 



Largely because of the extensive transfers already noted and some 

 reapportionment of funds, the appropriations for the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry show an aggregate decrease from $3,616,045 to $2,- 

 139,150. The allotment for the control of diseases of forest and or- 

 namental trees and shrubs is apparently reduced from $69,510 to 

 $57,175, and the language is so rewritten as to restrict the work to 

 iuA'estigations for the discovery of new methods of control. The 

 congressional seed distribution is continued on the usual basis with 

 an allotment of $252,540, but the funds for the distribution of new 

 and rare seeds and the improvement of alfalfa, clover, and other 

 forage crops, although combined with the cactus utilization work of 

 the Office of Farm Management, are reduced to $119,920, the amount 

 available for the distribution of drought-resistant field seeds in the 

 dry-land sections being decreased from $100,000 to $60,000. For the 

 foreign seed and plant introduction $70,400 is provided. 



Among the increases are the following : For the control of diseases 

 of orchard and other fruits, $3,440 to continue the study of citrus 

 canker ; for the control of truck crop diseases, $10,000 for a study of 

 cucumber diseases and the extension of the work on powdery scab 

 of potatoes ; for soil bacteriology and plant nutrition studies, $7,000, 

 additional authority being given to test samples of commercial cul- 

 tures for legume inoculation and the publication of results; and for 

 cereal diseases, $6,600 for the extension of studies of black rust. 



The appropriations for the Forest Service aggregate $5,553,256, 

 substantially as at present, but there is some rearrangement of funds 

 and considerable new legislation. The bulk of the appropriation is 

 as usual devoted to the protection and maintenance of the individual 

 National Forests. The allotment of $150,000 for forest fire protection 

 is continued, as is also that of $100,000 for cooperation with the 

 States in fire protection under the Appalachian Forest Eeserve Act 

 of 1911, but the appropriation of $100,000 additional for fighting 

 and preventing forest fires in cases of extraordinary emergency has 

 been omitted. Authority, however, is given the Secretary of Agi-i- 

 culture to expend interchangeably for this and other unforeseen 

 exigencies not to exceed 10 per cent of the various funds apportioned 

 to the specific National Forests. The authority previously exercised 



