840 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



nllowjuico ixrniittcd for sood and plant introduction from the general 

 S(M'<1 fund is iiici-cascd lo >r^40. (»(»(» (fornuM-ly ^30,(100); and i)rovisi(>n is 

 jnailc for an inspection of j^rass. cIoNcr. and alfalfa socd, the rcsnlts to 

 be ])ul)lishod with the names of the parti(\s oil'crint>- the .seed for sale. 

 The clause relatin*^- to investi>^ation on domestic sugar i)roduction 

 provides for developing the growing of sugar-beet seed in this coun- 

 try :uid demonstration of the superiority of high-grade seed and of 

 methods of iiu'reasing the tonnage of sugar beets. Twenty-five thou- 

 sand dollai's is provided for moving the greenhouses adjacent to the 

 Department building in order to accommodate the new building. 



The appropriation for the Bureau of Forestr}^ is $425,140, an increase 

 of $7r),14»»; for the Bureau of Soils, $214,680, the only increase being 

 for the salaries of two draftsmen; and for the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 $140,800. The latter is an increase of $6-1, .500 and carries as a new 

 item $15,000 for the chemical and ph3\sical examination of road mate- 

 rials, formerh^ conducted with the cooperation of the Office of Public 

 Road Inquiries. The appropriation for studies on table sirup is con- 

 tiimed, with provision for a report at the next session of Congress; 

 and starch-producing plants are added to the list of industrial plants 

 and products to be studied. The increase for the Bureau of Chemis- 

 try is much the largest it has received since it became a bureau. 



The former Division of Foreign Markets is incorporated in the 

 Bureau of Statistics, w'hich receives an additional appropriation of 

 $24,600, aside from that for the above Division, making its total 

 $197,260. The Division of Entomology is raised to the grade of a 

 bureau, and the scope of its work broadened to include " investigations 

 of insects in relation to diseases of men and domestic animals, and as 

 animal parasites." In other respects its lines are more specificall}^ 

 enumerated than f ormerl}^ covering all phases of economic entomolog}" 

 and related investigation. Its total appropriation of $82,450 is a 

 slight increase over the present year. 



The new appropriation gives this Ofiice, as before, $40,000 for the 

 general expenses of the Office proper, $15,000 each for the experiment 

 stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, $5,000 for farmers' insti- 

 tutes, $20,000 for nutrition investigations, and $67,500 for irrigation 

 investigations, which are extended to include drainage, an increase of 

 $2,500 in the latter case. This makes a total of $177,500 for the 

 OflEice and the various lines of work assigned to it. In its internal 

 organization and the scope of its w^ork the Office is in effect a bureau, 

 and has long since outgrown the title of "office" as at present used 

 in the Department organization. 



For the Biological Survey $51,850 is appropriated, the same as last 

 year; for Road Inquiries, $35,000, also the same; for the Library, 

 ,200; and for the Division of Publications, $240,640, an increase of 



