182 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed and required 

 to select, classify, and segregate, as soon as practicable, all lands 

 within the boundaries of national forests that may be opened to 

 settlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the 

 national forests, and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is 

 hereb}' appropriated for the purposes aforesaid. 



For the expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture for survey and listing of lands within forest reserves chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture and describing the same by metes and bounds, 

 or otherwise, as required by the Act of June eleventh, nineteen 

 hundred and six, and the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-nine, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided., hoivever., That 

 any such survey and the plat and field notes thereof paid for out of 

 this appropriation shall be made by an employee of the Forest 



Service under the direction of the United States surveyor general. 

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A clause, here omitted, of the last proviso set forth, providing that no 

 land listed under act June 11. 190G, c. 3074, shall pass from the forest 

 until patent issues, is set forth on p. 139, ante. 



A proviso, here omitted, authorizing the sale to homestead settlers and 

 farmers of mature, dead, and down timber in national forests, is set 

 forth on p. 92, ante. 



For fighting forest fires and for other unforeseen emergencies, one 

 hundred and fifty thousand dollars; 



For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and 

 laboratory supplies, instruments and equipment, one hundred and 

 fifty-five thousand dollars; 



For investigations of methods for wood distillation and for the pre- 

 servative treatment of timber, for timber testing and the testing of 

 such woods as m.ay require test to ascertain if they be suitable for 

 making paper, and for other investigations and experiments to pro- 

 mote economy in the use of forest products, one hundred and seventy 

 thousand dollars, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall investigate 

 the best methods of distillation of Douglas fir and other northwestern 

 species of fir and timber, and ascertain the yields of distillates of 

 various species, and the refining and commercial use of the distillates; 



For experiments and investigations of range conditions within 

 national forests, and of methods for improving the range by reseed- 

 ing, regulation of grazing, and other means, twenty thousand one 

 hundred and eighty dollars; 



For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding 

 and tree planting within national forests, and for experiments and 

 investigations necessary for such seeding and tree planting, one 

 hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars: 

 Provided., That the Secretary of Agriculture may procure such seed, 

 <;ones, and nursery stock by open purchase without advertisements 

 for proposals, whenever in his discirtion such method is most 

 economical and in the public interest, and when tJic cost thereof will 

 not exceed five hundred dollars; 



For silvicultural, dendrological, and other experiments and investi- 

 gations independently or in cooperation with other branches of the 

 Federal Government, with States and with individuals, to determine 

 the best methods for the conservative management of forests and 

 forest lands, eighty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight 

 dollars; 



