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Other extensions of work provided for include $6,500 for studies 

 of tobacco diseases, $5,000 for citrus and subtropical fruit diseases 

 and a like amount for breeding disease-resistant citrus varieties, 

 $2,500 for carrying on soil studies in connection with the powdery 

 scab of potato, $5,000 for extension work in cotton growing and 

 $3,000 for cotton diseases, $5,000 for the development of work on 

 plant-infesting nematodes, $8,350 for establishing a new grain- 

 standardization laboratory in Minnesota, $7,500 for studies on the 

 handling, grading, and transportation of the grain sorghums, $7,500 

 for studies of the water requirements of crops in the irrigated re- 

 gions, $22,500 for investigations of black rust and stripe rust of 

 wheat, oats, and barley, and other cereal diseases, $10,000 for the 

 development of an American sugar-beet seed industry, and $21,000 

 to extend and develop the forage-crop investigations and provide for 

 the more effective distribution of new and rare varieties of seeds. 

 The seed-importation act of 1912 is extended to include vetch and rye 

 grass, and the importation of seed of Kentucky bluegrass and Canada 

 bluegrass is prohibited unless containing at least 50 per cent of live 

 pure seed, while the importation of all other seed subject to the act 

 is prohibited unless it contains 65 per cent of live pure seed. The 

 congressional seed distribution is continued on the usual basis with 

 an allotment of $252,540. 



The allotments for the Forest Service, as usual, far exceed those 

 for any other bureau. The aggregate is $8,549,735, but, as previously 

 explained, $3,000,000 of this sum is for additional purchases under 

 the Appalachian Forest Reserve Act, $2,000,000 of which is not 

 available until July 1, 1917. An appropriation of $100,000 is also 

 continued for cooperation with the States in fire protection work 

 under the same act. Authority is granted for the prospecting, devel- 

 opment, and utilization of the mineral resources of these lands and 

 for the President to set aside suitable areas thereon for the protection 

 of game animals, birds, and fish. In each case regulations are to be 

 prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. An arrangement is 

 made whereby timber purchasers may henceforth advance the cost 

 of brush disposal on their cuttings on National Forests, in which 

 case the Department itself will carry on this work at safe and oppor- 

 tune times. The remaining work of the Service is provided for 

 without substantial change, provision being made for the continued 

 administration, protection, and development of the National Forests, 

 and for the varied investigations relating to the practice of forestry 

 and the utilization of forest products. 



The appropriation for the Bureau of Chemistry aggregates 

 $1,153,801, of which over half is for the enforcement of the Food 

 and Drugs Act. The purchase and equipment of a traveling labora- 

 tory at a cost of $7,500 is authorized. The various lines of work 



