162 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The estimates for the fiscal year 1902 included an increase of $10,000, 

 to provide for the additional work assigned to the Division. The 

 increase actually appropriated was, however, but $2,500, of which sum 

 $1,000 was made immediately available and was almost all expended 

 before the close of the fiscal year. The increase available for the 

 year 1902 was therefore practically reduced to $1,500, an amount which 

 is inadequate to enable the Division to meet the many demands made 

 upon it. 



In submitting estimates for the fiscal year 1903 the following rec- 

 ommendations are therefore made: (1) An increase in the salary roll, 

 to provide for two additional assistants, one a stenographer; (2) an 

 increase of $10,000 in the fund for biological investigations, to enable 

 the Division to enlarge the scope of its field work, to place the inspec- 

 tion service required by the Lacey Act on a permanent basis, to 

 investigate more fully the various methods of destroying prairie dogs, 

 to elaborate and prepare for publication material already received, 

 and to collect data and publish reports on birds and on game protec- 

 tion in sufficiently large editions to meet the general demand. 



