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There is an apparent increase from $308,680 to $327,680 for animal 

 husbandry investigations, but actually a large reduction since $544,- 

 600 was carried in the emergency act. The allotment for the work 

 of the Dairy Division, likewise somewhat curtailed, is $350,370. The 

 special appropriations of $60,000 for experiments and demonstration 

 with live stock production in cane-sugar and cotton districts, and 

 $40,000 for experiments in dairying and live stock production in 

 semiarid and irrigated districts are continued unchanged. 



The supplementary fund for meat inspection is increased from 

 $477,200 to $903,960, making with the permanent appropriation al- 

 ready mentioned $3,903,960 available for the purpose. Opportunity 

 is given to increase the salaries of about 3,000 employees of the 

 service and provision is made for over-time pay, the Government 

 to be reimbursed for this by establishments receiving the inspection. 

 Legislation is incorporated extending the meat inspection to equine 

 meat and meat products, and authority is given to use $100,000 in 

 the inspection of this commodity. The Food and Drugs Act is 

 also amended by specifically extending its net-weight provisions to 

 wrapped meats included in papers or other materials as prepared by 

 manufacturers for sale. 



The appropriations for the Bureau of Plant Industry aggregate 

 $3,379,638 as compared with $3,137,038 in the previous appropria- 

 tion act and $459,300 in the emergency act. The principal item to be 

 increased is the Congressional seed distribution. This is continued 

 under the usual plan, with an enlargement of funds from $242,320 

 to $358,980. 



Provision is made for the establishment of a plant inspection and 

 detention station of not to exceed fifty acres near Washington, in 

 connection with the foreign seed and plant introduction, with an 

 appropriation of $50,000 for the purchase of land and erection of 

 buildings. The allotment for horticultural investigations is in- 

 creased from $60,540 to $73,340, this representing a transfer of a 

 portion of the work carried on under the emergency act to stimulate 

 the production in the South of second-crop potatoes. The studies 

 of nut growing and utilization are segregated with an allotment 

 of $20,000. Authority is given to expend $20,000 of the funds for 

 pomological work in developing new grape industries and methods 

 of utilizing grapes heretofore used for the production of alcoholic 

 beverages. 



Several increases are made for combating plant diseases. A new 

 item allots $50,000 for cooperation with the plant disease survey 

 and inspection and control authorities of the States to combat flag 

 smut of wheat, take-all, helminthosporium, and other soil and seed 

 diseases of wheat and other cereals. Allotments of $10,000 to com- 

 bat sugar beet nematodes and $20,000 for studies of the mottling dis- 



