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Itt'lt, $715,720 for the coricspoiurni^^ woi-k outside that territory, 

 $r)(),()()() eac-h for the experiment stations in Hawaii and Porto Ivico, 

 $75,000 for those in Ahiska, and $44,300 for the Ofiice of Home 

 Economics. 



The api)r()i)riations of the Bureau of Public Roads showed a 

 rechiction of $79,300. The allotments for irrigation and drainage 

 investigations were each diminished by $20,000, making available 

 $G2,440 and $53,7G0, respectively. There was also a cut of $35,000 

 in the funds for field experiments in road construction and mainte- 

 nance, while a like sum was taken from the allotment for road 

 building and maintenance studies and added to that for investiga- 

 tions of road materials. The aggregate of the funds for the bureau 

 as carried in this act is $515,020, but it is important to recall that 

 in addition it receives large administrative funds under the Federal 

 Aid Poad Act of 1916 and a supplementary provision in the Post 

 Ofiice Ai)propriation Act of February 28, 1919. The Federal funds 

 under these two acts for the fiscal year 1921, which is the final year 

 for which appropriations have been made, amount to $100,000,000, 

 of which $3,000,000 is available for administrative purposes. 



The Bureau of Markets will receive $2,538,709, a decrease from 

 $2,811,305. The reduction is divided among a number of items, 

 $30,000 being in the funds for studies in marketing and distributing 

 farm products. This involves the discontinuance of work under way 

 in twenty cities and also the studies of direct marketing by parcel 

 post, exj)ress, and similar agencies. On the other hand, $20,000 is 

 allotted to a new project on methods of preventing deterioration of 

 fruits and vegetables in transportation and storage. The market 

 news service on fruit and vegetables and on live stock and meats, for 

 which at one time 17,000 miles of leased wires were in operation, is to 

 be further curtailed from the present 5,000-mile basis because of a 

 reduction of $58,080. 



The. appropriation for cooperation M'ith the States in marketing 

 work was reduced $0,050. This cooj^cration now includes agricul- 

 tural colleges and other agencies in twenty-eight States, and it had 

 been intended to extend it to others. An allotment of $15,780 for 

 studies of cooperation among farmers was eliminated because of 

 the transfer of this W'Ork to the Office of Farm Management and 

 Home Economics. 



The appropriation of $35,000 granted the previous year to com- 

 pute tlie work of the Domestic Wool Section of the War Industries 

 Board was reduced to $15,000. Another war-time appropriation 

 of $75,000 for the regulation of stoclcyard practices was eliminated. 



No cliange w\is made in tlie funds for the enforcement of the 

 U. S. Warehouse and Standard Containers Acts, but because of the 

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