232 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTrRE. 



For purchase of manuscripts, traveling expenses, electrotypes, illus- 

 trations, and otlier expenses not otherwise provided for. three thou- 

 sand dollars; 



In all, for general expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. 



Total for Division of Publications, two hundred and nineteen thou- 

 sand seven hundred dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912. c. 284. 37 Stat. 204. 



These are provisions of the agiicultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



BUREAU OF STATISTICS. 

 ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1008. (32 Stat. 1147.) 

 Chief of bureau; assistant chief of bureau. 



* * * One statistician, who shall be chief of bureau. * * * 

 one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of bureau, 



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Act March 3, 1903, c. 1008. 32 Stat. 1162. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1904, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in 

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

 for the fiscal year 1913 are set forth on p. 235, post. Provisions for " One 

 statistician, who shall be chief of division," are contained in the agricul- 

 tural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1896 to 1903. inclusive, and 

 provisions for " one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of 

 division." are contained in the acts for the fiscal years 1900 to 1903, in- 

 clusive. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909. c. 301. (35 Stat. 1039.) 



Monthly crop reports; condition reports of the cotton crop. 



* * * That hereafter the monthly crop reports, which shall be 

 gathered as far as practicable from practical farmers, and which shall 

 be issued on or before tlie tenth of each month, .shall embrace state- 

 ments of the conditions of crops by States, in the United States, with 

 such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for 

 illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and 

 officially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being 

 issued or published: Provided fitrfher. That hereafter the condition 

 reports of the cotton crop shall be issued on the same day in October 

 each year as the first ginner's report of actual cotton ginned. * * * 



Act of March 4. 1909. c. 301. 35 Stat. 1053. 



These provisos annexed to the appropriations for " General expenses. 

 Bureau of Statistics," in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1910. cited above. Provisos relating to the monthly crop reports 

 In nearly the same language, without the word " hereafter," were con- 

 taiiKMl in the agricultural appr())iriation acts for the fiscal years 1893 

 and thereafter. Provisos relating to the condition reports of the cotton 

 crop, in substantiall.v the same langtiage. also without the word "here- 

 after," were containtnl in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal 

 years 1907 and thereafter. 



A i)roviso. set forth o\\ ji. 24. n}itr. annexed to act January 12, 1895, 

 c. 23. s. 89, authorizes the Sec'retary of Agriculture to print such number 

 of copies of the monthly crop report as he shall deem requisite. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Reports from branches of department and recommendations to Congress relative 

 to marketing, etc.. of farm products. 



And that the Secretary of Agriculture be and he is hereby directed 

 to secure from the various branches of the department having aw- 



