1032 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



have become a considerable source of revenue. During the past fiscal 

 year the proceeds from these reserves amounted to $767,219.96. Of 

 this amount $203,113.27 was derived from sales of timber, $39,221.96 

 from "trespass," on account of timber previously cut but not paid for, 

 and $511,086.71 for grazing. It is confidently expected that in a few 

 years these reserves will not only be self-sustaining but will return a 

 considerable revenue over their cost of management. 



The total for the Office of Experiment Stations, including the 

 $720,000 for the State experiment stations under the Hatch Act, is 

 $971,860. The general maintenance fund of the Office is increased to 

 $25,500, aside from the statutory salaries. The special appropriation 

 of $3,000 for Alaska, for the purchase and introduction of live stock 

 for experimental purposes, is continued, and the Hawaii Station is 

 given $5,000 additional to provide a suitable water supply. There is 

 an increase of $18,000 for irrigation and drainage investigations, mak- 

 ing the total for that purpose $122,200, and the field of the Office is 

 broadened to include agricultural education, the act authorizing the 

 promotion of elementary education in agricultural schools. 



The total appropriation for the Office, aside from the amount carried 

 for the State stations, is $251,860, an increase of $56,960 over last 

 3 T ear. A clause in the act authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 turn over to the Georgia Station the buildings and machinery at Way- 

 cross, Ga., which were used b} T the Department in the study of the 

 production of table sirup, the condition being that the Georgia Station 

 shall establish and maintain a substation at Waycross in the interest of 

 the sirup and other agricultural industries in that part of the State. 



In reality the act authorized the expenditure of $210,000 which does 

 not appear in ai^ of the totals. This was on account of the Adams 

 Act, increasing the Federal appropriation for the State experiment sta- 

 tions. Under the opinion of the Comptroller, this act would not have 

 gone into effect until the fiscal year 1907, but it was construed b}^ the 

 agricultural bill to appropriate $5,000 to each State for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1906, and following this construction the Treasury 

 Department made these advances as soon as possible after the passage 

 of the agricultural bill. This amounted to $210,000 in all, a part of 

 which will doubtless remain unexpended, owing to the late date in the 

 fiscal } T ear on which the bill passed. A considerable proportion of the 

 stations, however, were enabled to secure necessary permanent equip- 

 ment and the like for investigation to be undertaken with the new act, 

 and the work will thus be started on a larger and more effective scale 

 than would otherwise be possible, especially as the amount for the 

 present year is increased to $7,000. 



For the Bureau of Chemistry the appropriation is $171,180, an 

 increase of $19,180 over last year. The Bureau of Entomology 

 receives $91,610, an increase of $10,110, of which $5,000 is for investi- 



