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Nutrition Investigations: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate 



and report, upon the nutritive value of the various articles and commodities used for 

 human food, with special suggestions of full, wholesome, and edible rations, less 

 wasteful and more economical than those in common use, seventeen thousand five 

 hundred dollars; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized to 

 cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out said investigations in 

 such manner and to such extent as may be warranted by a due regard to the varying 

 conditions and needs of the respective States and Territories, and as may be mutu- 

 ally agreed upon; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to require 

 said stations to report to him the results of any such investigations which they may 

 carry out, whether in cooperation with said Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise. 



Irrigation Investigations: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate 

 and report upon the laws and institutions relating to irrigation and upon the use of 

 irrigation waters, w r ith special suggestions of better methods for the utilization of 

 irrigation waters in agriculture than those in common use, and for the preparation, 

 printing, and illustration of reports and bulletins on irrigation; and the agricultural 

 experiment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture in carrying out said investigations in such manner and to such 

 extent as may be warranted by a due regard to the varying conditions and needs of 

 the respective States and Territories as may be mutually agreed upon; fifty thousand 

 dollars. 



Public Road Inquiries: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make inquiries 

 in regard to the system of road management throughout the United States; to make 

 investigations in regard to the best methods of road making, and the best kind of 

 road-making materials in the several States; the employment of local and special 

 agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the 

 city of Washington and elsewhere and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illus- 

 trating the results of such experiments; for labor, traveling, and other necessary 

 expenses, and for preparing and publishing bulletins and reports on this subject 

 for distribution, and to enable him to assist the agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations in disseminating information on this subject, fourteen thousand dol- 

 lars. * * * 



Grass and Forage-Plant Investigation and Animal Foods, Division of Agros- 

 tology: * * * The agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized and 

 directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in establishing and maintain- 

 ing experimental grass stations, for determining the best methods of caring for and 

 improving meadows and grazing lands, the use of different grasses and forage plants, 

 and their adaptability to various soils and climates, the best native and foreign spe- 

 cies for reclaiming overstocked ranges and pastures, for renovating worn-out lands, 

 for binding drifting sands and washed lands, and for turfing lawns and pleasure 

 grounds, and for solving the various forage problems presented in the several sections 

 of our country, seventeen thousand dollars: Provided, That six thousand dollars of 

 the amount hereby appropriated be used to purchase and collect seeds, roots, and 

 specimens of valuable and economic grasses and forage plants, to be distributed to 

 the various experiment stations in the several States and Territories, to be by them 

 used, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, to ascertain their adapta- 

 bility to the various soils and climates of the United States. * * * 



Purchase and Distribution of Valuable Seeds: For the purchase, propagation, 

 and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; 

 the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor 

 required in the city of Washington and elsewhere; transportation, paper, twine, 

 gum, printing, postal cards, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and 

 distributing the same, and to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, 

 one hundred and seventy thousand dollars: * * * Provided further, That twenty 



