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under way are continued without change, and $50,000 is added for 

 studies of the utilization for coloring purposes of raw domestic 

 materials. The Bureau has been studying dyestuffs, more particu- 

 larly with reference to their use in food products, for over ten years, 

 and it is planned to continue this work, extending it to methods of 

 manufacture of dyes from domestic products. The studies of naval 

 stores were also definitely assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry, and 

 $5,000 additional was granted to carry on demonstrations of im- 

 proved methods for preparing these commodities. 



The Bureau of Soils is granted $175,000 for experiments and 

 demonstrations to determine the best methods of obtaining potash 

 on a commercial scale. The remaining lines of work of the Bureau 

 are continued unchanged, the total appropriation being $503,735. 



An increase of $38,980 is accorded the Bureau of Entomology. 

 This is divided among a number of projects, including extension 

 work in bee culture, and studies of the grape-berry moth, clover 

 seed midge, clover root borer, tobacco hornworm, insects instrumental 

 in the carriage of cucumber diseases, and biting flies and other insects 

 affecting the health of domestic animals. The gipsy and brown-tail 

 moth campaign is allotted $305,050 and the Bureau as a whole 

 $868,880. 



The Bureau of Biological Survey is granted $578,230. The prin- 

 cipal change is an increase of $125,000 to be used on the public lands. 

 National Forests, and elsewhere in the Western and Northwestern 

 States to combat the spread of rabies by destroying wolves, coyotes, 

 and other predatory wild animals. This appropriation followed a 

 serious outbreak of the disease in these States, in which serious losses 

 to live stock and even human cases of the disease resulted from an 

 epidemic among coyotes, and continues work begun earlier in the 

 year under a deficiency appropriation of $75,000. 



The total appropriation for the States Relations Service is 

 $2,969,680, as compared with $2,821,840 for the previous year. The 

 main item of increase is one of $100,000 for the farmers' cooperative 

 demonstration work outside the cotton belt. This will permit of con- 

 siderable further extension of that work and of initiating in a small 

 way extension work by women county agents. There is also an 

 increase of $23,000 for the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, 

 and Porto Rico. Most of this increase is in lieu of the receipts from 

 the sales of farm products which were formerly available to the 

 insular stations for carrying on their work, but which, since June 

 30, 1915, have been required to be deposited in the United States 

 Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts and are not avail- 

 able for station use. Additional funds are likewise provided for the 

 administrative and general expenses of the Service by reason of its 



