2 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol.41 



An estimate of the relative resources of the Department is further 

 complicated by the increasingly large sums of money now available 

 to it through permanent appropriations and provisions carried in 

 other appropriation acts. Formerly what are termed the permanent 

 ai)i)ropriations of the Department were comparatively minor sources 

 of income, but for the present fiscal year they are estimated at 

 $28,235,000. The largest sources are the Federal Aid Eoad Act, carry- 

 ing $21,000,000; the Agricultural Extension Act, with $3,080,000; 

 and the meat inspection provision, with $3,000,000. 



Of the annual allotments to the Department carried in other appro- 

 priation acts, the largest specific sum is $600,000 for printing and 

 binding. There is also an indefinite appropriation which continues 

 the granting of a salary bonus to most of the employees of the Depart- 

 ment, in common with other branches of the Government, the condi- 

 tions under which this bonus is granted being substantially as for 

 the previous year but with the maximum amount per employee in- 

 creased from $120 to $240 per annum. In addition considerable ex- 

 penditures may be made by the Department from a revolving fund 

 derived from an appropriation of $6,500,000 for the purchase and sale 

 of seeds. This appropriation is available until " the National emer- 

 gency resulting from the existing state of war shall have passed," but 

 not later than the beginning of the next fiscal year after the termina- 

 tion of the war as declared by the President. The aggregate from 

 these various appropriations can not be definitely estimated, but it 

 seems likely that from them and the permanent appropriations funds 

 will be derived at least equivalent to those carried in the agricultural 

 appropriation act itself. 



For various reasons the appropriation act did not become law for 

 several weeks after the termination of the preceding fiscal year. 

 Following extended hearings, a bill carrying $31,691,562 was reported 

 from the House Committee on Agriculture on January 24, 1919, and 

 passed by the House February 1. It was reported by the Senate 

 Committee on Agriculture and Forestry February 22, but was among 

 the group of appropriation acts which failed of enactment prior to 

 the adjournment of the Sixty-fifth Congress on March 4. 



Upon the reassembling of the Sixty-sixth Congress, the committees 

 were reorganized, Hon. G. N. Haugen of Iowa succeeding Hon. 

 A. F. Lever of South Carolina as chairman of the House committee, 

 and Hon. A. J. Gronna of North Dakota succeeding Hon. T. P. 

 Gore of Oklahoma as chairman of the Senate committee. On 

 May 26, the new Agricultural Committee of the House reported a 

 bill, identical in text with that formed by its predecessor except for 

 some twenty amendments, most of which were of a minor nature. 

 This bill was passed by the House June 4, and after further amend- 



