74 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTUEE. 



For construction of buildings at bureau experiment station at 

 Bethescla, Maryland, and bureau experiment farm at Beltsville, Mary- 

 land, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ; 



For general administrative work, including traveling expenses and 

 salaries of employees engaged in such work, rent outside of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, office fixtures and supplies, express, freight, tele- 

 graph, telephone, and other necessary expenses, forty-two thousand 

 six hundred and six dollars; 



In all, for general expenses, one million two hundred and seventeen 

 thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars; 



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A paragrapli, here omitted, relating to the sale or exchange of breeding 

 animals or animal products produced or purchased under appropriations 

 made by Congress, is set forth on p. 45, ante. 



COOPERATIA'E EXPERIMENTS IN ANIMAL FEEDING AND BREEDING : For 



experiments in animal feeding and breeding, including cooperation 

 with the State agricultural experiment stations, including the repairs 

 and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to 

 carry on the experiments, and the experiments in the breeding of 

 horses for military purposes, including the employment of labor in 

 the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of 

 Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand 

 dollars. 



Total for bureau of Animal Industry, one million six hundred and 

 seventy thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars. 



Act August ]0, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 272. 



These are ])rovisidns of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 



year 1013, cited above. 



BUREAU or PLANT INDUSTRY. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 805. (31 Stat. 922.) 

 Chief of bureau. 



* * * One plant plwsiologist and pathologist, who shall be Chief 

 of Bureau, * * * 



Act March 2, 1901, c. 805, 31 Stat. 926. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1902, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in the 

 similar acts for subsequent fiscal years. The provision in the act for the 

 fiscal year 1913 is ^et forth on p. 81, post. 



ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.) 



Establishment of Bureau. 



All existing statutes relating to the Division of Botany, the Division of 

 Pomology, the Division of Vegetable I'hysiology and Pathology, the Divi- 

 sion of Agrostology, and Experimental Gardens and Grounds, reorganized 

 into tlie Bureau of Plant Industry, not otherwise repealed, are continued 

 in effect as applying to the bureau into which the divisions are re- 

 organized, by a proviso annexed to the agricultural approiniation act for 

 the fiscal year 1903, cited above, set forth on p. 11, ante. 



REV. ST. SEC. 527. 



Purchase and distribution of seeds, plants, etc. 



Sec. 527. That purchase and distribution of vegetable, field, and 

 flower seeds, plants, shrubs, vines, bulbs and cuttings shall be of the 



