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ture, which are sold in the United States for the detection, prevention, 

 treatment, or curing of diseases of domestic animals; and is also given 

 $5,000 to conduct experiments in the diseases prevalent among domestic 



animals in Minnesota and adjoining State-, in cooperation with the 

 Minnesota Experiment Station, with a view to developing antitoxin or 

 preventive vaccines. Twenty thousand dollars is specially designated 

 for " further developing the dairy indusl ry of the Southern State-, by 

 conducting experiments, holding institutes and giving object lesson-, in 

 cooperation with individual dairymen and State experiment stations/' 



The amount appropriated for the Weather Bureau is $1,439,240, an 

 increase of $46,250. The work provided for doe- not involve any par- 

 ticularly new features. 



The largest increase, except in the case of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry. Is for the Bureau of Plant Industry, $142,860, making tin; 

 total $919,740. To this should be added an emergency appropriation 

 of $105,000 for continuing work against the cotton loll weevil by 

 encouraging the diversification of crop- and improved cultural method-. 

 breeding new cotton, etc. Some of the new features provided for in 

 this Bureau are the provision for inspection of grain at certain points 

 of export, for which $15,000 i-- named, a special investigation of para- 

 sites and orchard diseases prevalent in the Ozark Mountain region, 

 with a special appropriation of $5,000, the erection of a laboratory and 

 office building at the plant introduction garden at Chico, ( Jalifornia, and 

 $3,500 for the improvement and macadamizing of gravel roadways in 

 the Department grounds. The provision for the purchase of seeds 

 for Congressional distribution, which was eliminated by the I louse of 

 Representatives but was restored in the Senate Committee on Agri- 

 culture, remains $242,920, of which as formerly $37,780 is for the 

 introduction of seeds and plants from foreign countries. 



The Forest Service is given a round million, which is an increase of 

 $124,860 over last year. Under the emergency appropriations $15,000 

 is provided for the erection of a wire fence on the Wichita Forest and 

 Game Preserve, to provide a range for the buffalo herd presented b} r 

 the New York Zoological Society; and &>.;">( )<) for a building on Dismal 

 River Forest Reserve in Nebraska. A new and important feature 

 affecting the policy of the Government. with reference to the forest 

 reserves is incorporated in the act. This authorizes the payment each 

 year of 10 per cent of the money received from these reserves to the 

 State or Territory in which the reserves are respectively located, to 

 be expended by the legislature for the benefit of the public schools 

 and public road- of the county or counties in which the reserves are 

 situated. This provision is looked upon with much favor, as it will 

 in large measure offset the loss t i the counties due to the withdrawal 

 of land from settlement and ultimate taxation. 



Under the present method of administering the forest reserves they 



