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States and to foreign countries, eighty-six thousaiul and fifteen dol- 

 lars; 



To cultivato and care for experimental gardens and grounds 

 manage and maintain conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and' 

 fruit propagating houses, thirteen thousand and ten doUars; 



For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and main- 

 tain a general experiment farm and agricultural station on the Ar- 

 lington estate, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen 

 hundred, and for other general horticultural investigations, thirty- 

 six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; 



For general administrative expenses connected with the above- 

 mentioned lines of investigation, including the office of the chief of 

 bureau, the assistant chief of bureau, the chief clerk, the officer in 

 charge of publications, records, supplies, and property, and for mis- 

 cellaneous expenses incident thereto, thirty-six thousand live hun- 

 dred and thirty dollars; 



In all, for general expenses, one million six hundred and fifty-eight 

 thousand and eighty dollars. 



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The portion of this act, here omitted, relatinj? to the purchase, propa- 

 gation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, etc., and plants, is set 

 forth on p. 75, ante. 



Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, two million three hundred 

 and twenty-three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 274. 



To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency 

 caused by the continuous spread of the chestnut-bark disease by con- 

 tinuing the study of the nature and habits of the parasitic fungus 

 causing the disease, for the purpose of discovering new methods of 

 control, and by putting into application methods of control already 

 discovered, eighty thousand dollars, of which sum thirty thousand 

 dollars shall be immediately available, and the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture is hereby authorized to expend said appropriation in such man- 

 ner as he shall deem best, in cooperation with the authorities of the 

 States concerned or with individuals, and to pay all necessary ex- 

 penses for the employment of investigators, local and special agents, 

 experts, assistants, and all labor and other necessary expenses, includ- 

 ing rent, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as may be re- 

 quired: Provided, That of this sum not exceeding ten thousand 

 dollars shall be used in the study of the relation of insects to the 

 chestnut-bark disease. 



To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the cultiva- 

 tion, acclimating and development of the most nutritious and pro- 

 ductive types of potatoes, and for the purpose of experimentation 

 and development of American sugar-beet seed adapted to the irri- 

 gated lands of the arid West, ten thousand dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 301. 



These are further provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for 

 the fiscal year 1913, cited above. The last two paragraphs are contained 

 under the heading " Miscellaneous." 



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