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DEPAETMENTAL EEPORTS. 



CONTRACT FOR SEEDS. 



A contract for seeds for Congressional distril)ution, on account of 

 the $170,000 appropriated for the "Purchase and distribution of val- 

 uable seeds, 1901," was awarded to the lowest bidder, The New York 

 Market Gardeners' Association, A. C. ISTellis, manager, in the gross 

 sum of 168,874.12, with the privilege of $40,000 additional at prices 

 fixed bj^ said contract. 



ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS. 



The estimates of appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1902, 

 were prepared in this office according to the usual practice, and were 

 submitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury, accom- 

 jianied by an explanation of all changes from the appropriations of 

 the preceding year. The estimates for 1902, including $720,000 for 

 agricultural experiment stations, carried an increase over the appro- 

 priations for 1901 of 1444,050, and amounted in the aggregate to 

 $4,467,550. The estimates included an item for $200,000 for new 

 laboratory buildings. No appropriation, however, was made for these 

 buildings. 



For 1902, Congress appropriated $114,870 more than was estimated 

 for by the Department, as shown in the following table. Of this sum, 

 $100,000 was for seeds for Congressional distribution. 



Appropriations and estimates for 1902. 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Library - - --- 



Contingent expenses 



Animal quarantine stations 



Collecting agricultural statistics 



Botanical investigations and experiments . . . 



Entomological investigations - 



Vegetable pathological investigations 



Biological investigations 



Pomological investigations 



Laboratory - 



Forestry investigations - 



Experimental gardens and grounds 



Soil investigations 



Grass and forage-plant investigations 



Irrigation investigations 



Agricultural experiment stations [S"S9,000] '. 



Nutrition investigations. 



Arlington experimental farm 



Plans for building 



Public-road inquiries. 



Publications, including Farmers' Bulletins . . 

 Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds. 

 Investigating production of dcjmestic sugar . 



Tea-culture investigations 



Bureau of Animal Industry 



Amount ap- 

 propriated 

 for 1902. 



Total 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses 



Meteorological observation stations. 

 Buildings 



Total, Weather Bureau . 

 Grand total 



$373, 820. 00 



7,000.00 



37,000.00 



2.5,000.00 



120,000.00 



45, 000. CO 



25.500.00 



60.000.00 



20,000.00 



20,000.00 



24,500.00 



146,280.00 



20,000.00 



91,000.00 



20, 000. 00 



50,000.00 



69, 000. 00 



20, 00(». 00 



10,000. X) 



5, OfK). 00 



20,000.1)0 



173,000.00 



270,000.00 



5,(MK).00 



7.000.00 



1,050,000.00 



Amount es- 

 timated for 

 1902. 



S334, 2:1(1. (K) 



7,(XX).0(J 



37,000.00 



2.5,000.00 



135,000.00 

 35, (XXI 00 

 25, 0(X1. 00 

 50,(X)0.00 

 27, .500. 00 

 19, 500. (K) 

 33, 500. 00 



180, (XX). 00 

 2.5,000.00 



105, 000. 00 

 17, (XX). 00 

 75,(KK).00 

 81,0(K).00 

 20,000.00 



10, ax). 00 



20,000.00 



107,5(X).0O 



170,000.00 



7,000.(X) 



5,000.00 



1,100,000.00 



2,714,100.00 [ 2,651,230.00 



1.59, 820. 00 



9,000.00 



8.000.00 



865,500.00 



60,000.00 



46.000.00 



1,148,320.00 



3, 862, 420. 00 



155,320.00 

 9,000.00 

 8,0(K).00 



858,(XH1.(X) 



60,000.00 



6,000.00 



1,096,320.00 



3,747,550.00 



' Of this amount $730,000 is paid directly to the experiment stations from the Treasury 

 Department. 



