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RF.P0T7T OF THE C0MAITP8T0XER OF AOinCUETT^I?E. 



iiiiulc l>y Congress for tliis departiuentj the. (lislmrso.iDenls and unex- 

 pended balance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870: 



i^rnouDt 

 appropriated. 



Amount 

 disbursed. 



Amount 

 iinexpi^nded. 



Salnries 



Collecting statistics 



Purchasi.' and dislriliution of seeds 



Esperinieutal garden 



Museum and herbarium 



Furniture, cases, and repairs 



Library 



Labor.al ory 



Contingent expenses 



Postage 



Improvement of CTOxmds 



Printing and binding 



Investigating thohiibits of insects, &c. . 

 Investigating the diseases of swine, &c. 

 Erection of stable 



$06, 

 30, 



S6G, 900 on 

 10, 000 00 

 7.j, 000 00 



7, 000 00 

 1,000 0(1 

 4, 000 00 



1,000 00 



1,500 00 



8, 000 00 

 4. 000 00 

 6, 500 00 

 C, 073 55 



10, 000 00 



10, 000 00 



1, 500 00 



4, 926 45 



For the purpose of comparison, the amounts appropriated for the 

 various deijartments of the general government for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1879, is herewith appended: 



Object of appropriation. 



AmoTint appro- 

 priated. 



Congrfss 



Executive proper 



State Department , 



Treasury Department 



War Department , 



Navy Department 



Interior Department , 



Post-Office Department 



Department of Ju.stice 



Department of Agricultnre 



167, 



66, 



20, 



38, 



7, 



3, 



286, 472 72 

 101, 064 00 

 134, 325 64 

 122, 213 7.5 

 263, 792 48 

 684, 492 83 

 245, 551 74 

 295, 369 98 

 918,913 94 

 204, 900 00 



Total ! $319,257,117 08 



IMMEDIATE NECESSITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT. 



Tlie immediate necessities of this department, beyond the appropria- 

 tions usually made for its ordinary worlcing, may be stated : 



1. A laboratory of proper size and fully equipped, to cost not less than 

 $300,000, with a sufficient appropriation to meet the expenses of the 

 additional force that will be necessary to carry forward investigations 

 on a larger scale than the present laboratory and appliances will permit; 

 and the further sum of $5,000, made available immediately, to pay for 

 labor and material necessary in the pressing work of this division, 



2. An experimental farm of 1,000 acres of ground, in the neighbor- 

 hood of this city, and five experimental stations in different sections 

 of the country, viz., one in California, one in the interior of the continent 

 (to be devoted to the introduction and preservation of the best breeds 

 of domesticated animals and to the domestication of some of the native 

 wild animals of the country, among them the Buifalo), one in Texas, one 



