406 EXPEKIMENT STATION EECOED. 



vestigations of the experiment stations by the Secretarj^ of Agricul- 

 ture in cooperation with the Association of American AgricuUural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations, was favorably recommended by 

 both the House and Senate Committees, but failed of passage. 



The Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Eico experiment stations were 

 given $30,000 each, an increase of $2,000 in each case to equalize their 

 funds with those received by the State stations from Federal funds, 

 and the Guam Station was continued at $15,000. The clause requir- 

 ing the expenditure of $5,000 by the Porto Rico Station for coffee 

 experiments was omitted, thereby restoring the coffee work to the 

 same basis on which it has been conducted for many years previous 

 to the passage of the act for 1911. 



The irrigation and drainage investigations each received $100,000, 

 a net increase of $32,820 and $25,980, respectively. These increases 

 will enable the extension of these lines of work, especially in the 

 rendering of assistance to settlers in newly irrigated regions, and in 

 formulating plans for the reclamation of swamp lands. The pro- 

 vision requiring a special report of the aggregate expenses in the 

 drainage investigations to date and the areas in the several States 

 and Territories which have been investigated was continued. 



The work of the remaining bureaus was provided for along sub- 

 stantially the present lines. Including the increase previously noted 

 for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, the Bureau of 

 Chemistry wall receive $68,080 more than at present, and a total of 

 $963,780. The Bureau of Statistics is given $231,620 ; the Library, 

 $40,500; the Office of the Secretary, $276,450; the Division of Ac- 

 counts, $97,520; the Division of Pui3lications, $209,960; and the fund 

 for contingent expenses, $110,000. These all contain small increases, 

 occasioned in general by the growth of the Department. 



In addition to the sums carried in the appropriation act itself, 

 there should also be considered the appropriation of $470,000 for 

 the Department printing and binding, which appears in the appro- 

 priation act for sundry civil expenses. This represents a nominal 

 increase of $10,000, but $22,000 more than at present is assigned to 

 the Weather Bureau by reason of the transfer of a portion of its 

 branch printing office, making a virtual decrease of $12,000 for the 

 remainder of the Department. There is also to be added the perma- 

 nent appropriation of $3,000,000 for the meat-inspection work. De- 

 ficiency appropriations were granted, as well, of $923,192.90 for the 

 fighting of forest fires in 1910, the relief of employees of the Depart- 

 ment killed or injured in that campaign, and for horses and equip- 

 ment destroyed during it, and $35,000 for the enforcement of the 

 Insecticide Act during 1911. 



