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which a system of compulsory savings begins August 1, 1920, 2.5 * 

 per cent of all salaries being withheld from employees until their 

 retirement or complete separation from the service. 



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Some of the largest reductions carried by the appropriation act, 

 aggregating over $300,000, were made in the direct allotments to the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. Also, the supplementary appropria- 

 tion to the Department of $1,000,000 to combat outbreaks of foot- 

 and-mouth disease and other contagious and infectious diseases was 

 practically eliminated, only $50,000 being appropriated. This 

 amount, together with certain unexpended balances, will provide 

 about 550,000 for this purpose in case an emergency should arise. 



The bureau funds for field work in the eradication of hog cholera 

 were reduced from $446,865 to $192,200. This will involve a radical 

 curtailment of the campaign, which has been carried on in thirty-six 

 of the principal hog-raising States at an estimated annual saving to j 

 farmers of $40,000,000 a year. It is announced tliat the field forces 

 of 140 specialists will be reduced to about 54, and that much of the 

 cooperation with the States will have to be abandoned entirely. 



The funds for tick eradication were reduced from $741,980 to; 

 $681,160, an allotment of $50,000 for live stock and dairying demon- 

 stration work in cooperation with the States Relations Service being 

 omitted altogether. In consequence, the Federal live stock demon- 

 stration work in areas freed of ticks will cease, and beef cattle 

 specialists will be withdrawn from ten States and dairy specialists 

 from six States in the South. 



A net reduction of $14,400 in the appropriation for the study of 

 animal diseases will necessitate the abandonment in New York and 

 Texas of cooperative work looking to the control of contagious 

 abortion of cattle. Curtailment is also anticipated in the studies 

 of stock-poisoning by plants, anthrax, tuberculosis, and various 

 animal parasites. Another reduction is of $23,600 for dourine eradi- 

 cation. For the tuberculosis campaign, the allotment for the pay- 

 ment of indemnities Avas decreased from $1,000,000 to $680,440, 

 while that for administration and operating expenses was increased 

 from $500,000 to $800,000. 



A net reduction of $12,750 in the funds for dairy investigations 

 will oblige the Department to withdraw financial support of coop- 

 erative cow testing work in ten States, from cooperative work in 

 improving the quality and increasing the use of dairy products in 

 four States, and from the employment of dairy specialists for 

 demonstration work in Nevada and Wyoming. There were alsoi 

 small decreases in the appropriations for experiments and demon- 

 strations in live stock production in the cane-sugar and cotton dis- 



