408 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



fund is to be availaljle among other purposes, for the payment, in co- 

 operation witk the States, of chiims growing out of either past or 

 future purchases and destruction of animals or materials irrespective 

 of ownership provided all (juarantine regulations have been com- 

 plied with. Specific authority is given the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to pay not more than cmc-half the exj)enses incurred in quarantine of 

 the animals exhibited at the National Dairy Show in 1014, the total 

 expense under this item being, restricted to not over one-half of the 

 beef or dairy value of such animals. 



Much interest was manifested by Congress in the sui)ject of rural 

 credits, and a joint congressional committee was authorized to inves- 

 tigate and report by January 1, lOlG, a bill or bills providing for 

 " the establishment of a system of rural credits adapted to American 

 needs and conditions." An appropriation of $10,000 was granted for 

 the use of the committee. 



In connection with the appropriations included in the act itself, 

 reference should also be made to the funds derived in other ways. 

 For the fiscal year under discussion, the permanent appropriations 

 under the Department will aggregate over $5,000,000, the largest 

 items being those of $3,000,000 for meat inspection and $1,080,000 

 under the Smith-Lever Act, the remainder being almost wholly for 

 payments to the States of their quota of the receipts from the Na- 

 tional Forests and other forestry purposes. The appropriation act 

 for sundry civil expenses as usual carries the appropriation for the 

 department printing and binding, $500,000 being allotted as at pres- 

 ent, of which $137,500 is for Farmers' Bulletins and $47,000 for the 

 Weather Bureau. 



Nor are the federal appropriations for agricultural purposes con- 

 fined to the Department of Agriculture. The usual large appropria- 

 tions will be available for agricultural education in the land-grant 

 colleges under the Morrill and Nelson acts, for the rural education 

 work of the Bureau of Education, demonstration work among the 

 Indians, and the payment of the country's quota toward the support 

 of the International Institute of Agriculture, and aid is also given 

 through participation in such enterprises as the forthcoming Pan- 

 American Scientific Congress, a notice of which is given elsewhere. 



The continuance of the various lines of work under way in the 

 Department is thus provided for to much the same extent as at 

 present. The acceptance of its plan of reorganization, by authoriz- 

 ing a regrouping of its activities along more logical lines, is of spe- 

 cial interest and importance. The changes contemplated should tend 

 to increase its efficiency, and together with the enlarged facilities in 

 some directions enable it to cope more effectively than ever before 

 with the complex problems with which it is being called upon to deal. 



