10 Aug., 1918.] 



Agriculture in America. 



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The ordinary expenditure of the Department for salaries and 

 expenses is 26,000,000 dollars (£5,416,700). In addition, there are 

 permanent annual appropriations amounting to 17,500,000 dollars 

 (£3,645,800), making a total ordinary expenditure of 43,500,000 dollars 

 (£9,062,500). Then the emergency appropriation for war work brings 

 the expenditure over 60,000,000 dollars (£12,500,000). Some idea 

 of the investigational work of the Department may be gained from the 

 fact that the outline of projects under investigation covers 502 pages of 

 closely-'printed matter. 



I have .obtained details of every item of expenditure submitted to 

 Conigress, the report of the Committee of Congress on the appropria- 

 tions, and a list of every project in every Department, together with 

 the plan of attack, and the results so far secured. 



During the course of a week a collection of flax seeds, hemp, cotton, 

 com, tobacco, wheat, oats, barley, and dry land sorghums will probably 

 be despatched by the Office of Plant Introduction. I selected a number 

 of seeds of varieties which do well in the various climatic regions of 

 the United States, and have asked the Office of Plant Introduction to 

 fumigate them, to remove all possibility of introducing any fungoid 

 disease. These seeds will probably reach you in time for planting the 

 wheat, barley, oat, and flax varieties at Werribee. 



The principal items of expenditure for the Department of Agricul- 

 ture are as follow (for year ending 30th June, 1917) : — 



Office of Secretary 

 Bureau of Plant Industry 

 Bureau of Animal Industry 

 Forest Service 

 States Relation Service . . 

 Weather Bureau 

 Bureau of Chemistry 

 Bureau of Entomology . . 

 Bureau of Biological Survey 

 Bureau of Crop Estimates 

 Bureau of Soils 

 Bureau of Markets ; , 



Miscellaneous Services . . 



Total for salaries and expenses. . 

 Pennanent annual appropriations 



$717,820 



$3,143,630 



$3,810,000 



$5,712,275 



$3,107,660 



$1,783,140 



$1,200,591 



$931,480 



$592,010 



^323,452 



$363,735 



$1,718,575 



$2,514,745 



(£14,945) 



(£654,922) 



(£793,750) 



(£1,190,057) 



(£647,429) 



(£371,487) 



(£250,123) 



(£194,058) 



(£123,335) 



(£67,385) 



(£75,778) 



(£358,036) 



(£523,905) 



$25,919,113 (£5,399,810) 

 $17,235,000 (£3,590,621) 



$43,154,113 or £9,000,000* 



. (*Approxiraately.) 



In addition to these annual comimitments, there are the emergency 

 appropriations to cover the period of the war, and, with these, the 

 expenditure for 1918 will amount to over 60,000,000 dollars 

 (£12,500,000). 



. The sixty-fourth Congress (1917) passed an Act called the Smith 

 Hughes Act, which provides, for co-operation between the Federal 



