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biological investigations or soil-survey work, no longer indicate so 

 completely as the}^ did previously the entire expenditures for these 

 objects. Comparison is still possible, however, as regards the aggre- 

 gate appropriations of the bureaus. 



The Weather Bureau receives a total of $1,600,250. Of this amount, 

 $15,000 is for the restoration of the Weather Bureau station at Key 

 West, Florida, wrecked by hurricanes in October, 1910. The allot- 

 ment for maintenance of the bureau printing office was reduced to 

 $18,000 by reason of the recent transfer of a portion of the equipment 

 to the Government Printing Office. For investigation of climatology 

 and evaporation $120,000 was provided, as at jDresent. 



The appropriations to the Bureau of Animal Industry aggregate 

 $1,654,750. Aside from the increase due to the transfers from the 

 meat-inspection act, previously referred to, the chief additions are 

 those of $7,120 for the tick-eradication work, making that appro- 

 priation $250,000; an increase of $7,000 for the work of the Dairy 

 Division, making its total $150,000; and of $7,640 for the Animal 

 Husbandry Division, or $47,480 for that work. Under a new clause 

 inserted in the act, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to per- 

 mit, under certain conditions, the admission of tick-infested cattle 

 from Mexico into those portions of Texas below the quarantine line. 



New appropriations were made of $65,000 for the purchase of land 

 for quarantine stations near Baltimore, Maryland, and Boston, Mas- 

 sachusetts; $10,000 for equipping the 475-acre experiment farm 

 which has recently been acquired at Beltsville, Maryland ; and $16,500 

 for constructing buildings at this farm and that at Bethesda, Mary- 

 land. It is expected to utilize the Beltsville farm for the experi- 

 mental work of the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Divisions, and to 

 reserve that at Bethesda for pathological investigations. 



One of the largest increases in the bill was accorded to the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, which will receive $303,480 additional, making its 

 total $2,061,686. The lump-fund appropriation for general expenses 

 is $1,441,536, which is divided among thirty projects. Some of the 

 largest of these are $350,000 for the boll-weevil campaign (a net 

 increase of $106,945) ; methods of crop production in the semiarid 

 or dry-land sections, and for the utilization of lands reclaimed under 

 the Reclamation Act, for which a net increase of $38,270 and a total 

 of $143,060 is granted ; $142,920 for the farm management studies, of 

 which $4,000 is to be used in agricultural reconnoisance work in 

 Alaska ; studies of the production, handling, grading, and transporta- 

 tion of grains, for which $135,005 is available, an increase of $24,500 ; 

 and the studies of fruit improvement and the methods of growing, 

 packing, and marketing fruits, which will have $87,735. The investi- 

 gations of the cotton industry were extended to include the ginning 

 and wrapping of cotton. 



