406 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



and the public domain. The remaining allotments are substantially 

 as at present. 



Under the plan of organization already described, the States Re- 

 lations Service is established with an initial appropriation of 

 $2,821,840. This exceeds by $891, OGO the present appropriation for 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, and is the largest allotment for 

 any bureau except the Forest Service. This appropriation does not 

 include the grants to the States under the Smith-Lever Act, which 

 for the ensuing year may reach $1,080,000, but as usual contains 

 $1,440,000 to be paid to the state experiment stations under the 

 PTatch and Adams acts. Authority is granted the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to coordinate the work of the Department and the state agri- 

 cultural colleges and experiment stations under these three acts, with 

 an appropriation of $59,500 for their enforcement, of which $20,100 

 may be used for general administrative expenses of the States Re- 

 lations Service as a whole. The farmers' cooperative demonstration 

 work of the Department is continued without change in appro- 

 priations, $66G,020 being allotted to the work in the cotton belt and 

 $386,080 for the remainder of the country. 



The States Relations Service also has at its disposal $103,140 for 

 statutory salaries, $20,600 for the Agricultural Education Service, 

 and $26,500 for the studies of the utilization of agricultural products 

 for food, clothiijg, and other uses in the home. The ap])ropriation 

 of $120,000 for the insular stations is also continued, but their 

 revenues, particularly that of the Alaska stations, will be somewhat 

 reduced through the omission of the provision carried for many 

 years allowing them to utilize the funds derived from the sales of 

 farm products, as at the state experiment stations. Formal provision 

 was made for continuing the card index of agricultural literature 

 under the new^ plan of organization, and the annual report on the 

 work and expenditures of the stations was enlarged to include a 

 similar report on the work under the Smith-Lever Act. 



The appropriation for the Office of Public Roads and Rural En- 

 gineering aggregates $586,465. No increases are made in any of the 

 allotments, $75,960 being granted for statutory salaries, $282,420 for 

 the work with roads, $106,400 for irrigation investigations, $96,280 

 for drainage investigations, $12,805 for studies of farm water sup- 

 plies and drainage disposal, the construction of farm buildings, and 

 other rural engineering problems, and $12,600 for general adminis- 

 trative expenses. The paragraphs pertaining to irrigation and drain- 

 age Avere rewritten to confine these lines more closely to farm prob- 

 lems, but the Department is given increased authority as regards the 

 study of rural engineering problems in general. 



