DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 

 APPROPRIATIONS FOE 1901 AND 1902. 



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The appropriations for 1001 and 1902 appear in the following table, 

 and it will be seen that there is an increase in favor of the latter year 

 of $558,920: 



Appropriation* for the years 1001 and 1002, 



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 



Plans for administrative building 



Grafts and forage-plant investigations 



Irrigation investigations 



Agricultural experiment stations [$780,000 J l - 



Nutrition investigations .. 



Arlington experimental farm 



Public-road inquiries 



Publications, Farmers 1 Bulletins 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds 



In vestigating production of domestic sugar 



Tea culture investigations .. 



Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Total 



WEATHKR BUREAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses 



New buildings at stations 



Meteorological observation stations . 



Total, Weather Bureau. 

 Grand total 



Amount ap- 

 propriated 

 for 1901. 



$336, 



5, 



37, 



50, 



lid. 

 80, 

 22, 

 28, 

 17. 

 9, 

 28, 

 80. 

 20, 

 25, 



680. 00 



000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 OH!). 00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 500.00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 (MM). 00 

 000.00 



17. 



50. 



60, 



17, 



10, 



14, 



105. 



170, 



7, 



5, 



1, 000, 



000.00 

 0(H). (JO 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 000.00 



000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 



ooo.oo 

 ooo.oo 



000.00 



2,245,180.00 



153,320.00 

 9,000.00 

 8,000.00 



828,000.00 



60,000.00 



1,058,320.00 



3, 303, 500. 00 



Amount ap- 

 propriated 



for 1902. 



$373, 



7. 

 37; 

 25! 

 120. 

 45; 

 25. 

 60, 

 20. 

 20. 

 24, 

 146, 

 20, 

 91, 



5. 

 20, 

 50, 

 60. 

 20. 

 10, 

 20, 

 173, 

 270. 



5, 



7, 

 1,050, 



820.00 



(MI0.0O 



000.00 



000.00 

 000.00 



000.00 



500.00 



00(1.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 280.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 



000.00 



000.00 



0,10.00 



000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 (H)0.00 



000.00 



0110.00 

 000.00 

 000. 00 



2,714,100.00 



150.820.00 



9,000.00 



8,000.00 



865,500.00 



46,000.00 



01), 000. 00 



1,148,320.00 



3, 802, 420. 00 



1 The total appropriations under this he id are $780,003 and $78tf,000 for the years given, 

 respectively, but $720,000 of each appropriation is paid directly to the experiment stations from 

 the Treasury Department. The sums included in tlie figure columns represent only the amount 

 available for departmental expenditures. 



NEW BUREAUS. 



Four new bureaus were created by the appropriation act for the year 

 1902 by raising to that grade certain scientific Divisions of the Depart- 

 ment, as follows : 



Bureau of Plant Industry, which includes what were formerly the 

 Divisions of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, Botany, Pomology, 

 Agrostology, and Experimental Gardens and Grounds. 



Bureau of Forestry, which is to include forestry work in the United 

 States. 



Bureau of Soils, for the investigation of soil problems, including 

 the mapping of tobacco soils. 



Bureau of Chemistry, for the investigation of food adulteration, 

 food preservatives, etc. 



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