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$11,320. The latter appropriation carries the aUowance for Farmers' 

 Bulletins, hut as usual does not include the fund available for printing 

 the other miscellaneous bulletins of the Department. The allowance 

 for this purpose out of the general printing fund is $18.5,000, includ- 

 ing $25,000 set aside for the Weather Bureau. Aside from this, 

 $300,000 is provided for the Department Yearbook; and the annual 

 reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Weather Bureau, the 

 Soil Surve}^ and this Office, together with other special reports 

 ordered by Congress, are provided for specifically. All told, the 

 expenditures for Department printing make the imposing aggregate of 

 nearl}^ or quite $850,000 a year. 



The great need of adequate buildings to provide office and labora- 

 tory accommodations suited to the' needs of this large and growing 

 Department is emphasized by the rent item which the new'act carries. 

 This amounts to about $37,000, a considerable increase over last year. 

 While the total amount may not be required, the annual rental on 

 most of the buildings is a fixed charge, and the temporary quarters 

 required fitting up and special equipment, much of whi(;h is of no per- 

 manent value. Plans for the new building are well in hand, and now 

 that the location has been definitely decided upon the details will be 

 prepared as promptl}^ as possible. The location selected is immedi- 

 ately in rear of the present building and back of the line of the boule- 

 vard extending from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. 



The new appropriation act illustrates in a striking manner how 

 intimately the work of the Department and the experiment stations is 

 associated in the mind of Congress. 



The clause relating to the work of the latter, which was inserted 

 by the House committee, was subsequentl}^ stricken out, and the 

 wording of the appropriation for the stations as finally passed remains 

 unchanged. 



The stations are mentioned in the bill no less than fifteen times, 

 outside of the clause making specific appropriation for them. These 

 references provide for the cooperation of the Department with the 

 stations in extending its work, and place the aid of the Depart- 

 ment at the disposal of the stations in other ways. For example, 

 the appropriations for inaugurating experiments in animal breed- 

 ing and feeding, for continuing the work of plant breeding and 

 selection, for testing plant introductions, for studying the influence 

 of environment upon the composition of cereals, sugar and starch- 

 producing plants, for determining the adaptability for grape stocks, 

 for studying market conditions affecting the fruit and vegetable trade, 

 for grass and forage plant investigations, for drainage, and irriga- 

 tion investigations, and for studies on human food and nutrition, 

 all make specific mention of the experiment stations as cooperating 



