22 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



(Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page three hiindrefl and one), and i 

 the stiidv of landscape and vegetable gardening, floriculture, and [ 

 related .siibjects. $50,900: Prov(de(K That of this amount $10,000 may 

 be used to investigate the diseases, cultivation, and acclimating of 

 potatoes, and the development of improved and disease-resistant I 

 types thereof; 



For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and main- 

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

 ton estate, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the provisions 

 of the Act of Conirress approved A])ril eighteenth, nineteen hundred, 

 $15,000; 



For investigations in foreign seed and plant introduction, including 

 the study, collection. i)urchase, testing, propagation, and distribution 

 of rare and valuable seeds. l)ulbs. trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and 

 plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for ex- 

 periments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this 

 country. $83,000; 



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 officers in 

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

 cellaneous expenses incident thereto. $35,690; 



In all, for general expenses, $1,044,305. 

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Provisimis. Ihtc (Hiiitted. rei;itin« tit tln^ purchase, propagation, testinjr. 

 and distribntion of valn.-ible seeds, etc., are set forth above. 



Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, $2,667,995. 



Act March 4. 1!)13, c. 145. 37 Stat. 834. 



Tlu'sc .ire provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 vear VM 4. cited above. 



FOREST SERVICE. 



(Set> "Laws A|iplicai»U' to tlie liiitcd States 1 •cparinieiit of Ai:ricultiu-e." r.tl2. 



pp. SG-ias.) 



ACT MARCH 4. 1913. c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



Selection, etc.. of lands within national forests opened to settlement and entry 

 under homestead laws; appropriation therefor: expenses for examination, 

 survey, and platting of lands listed within national forests chiefly valuable 

 for agriculture: surveys, etc.. to be made by employees of Forest Service; 

 unexpended balances for survey and listing lands reappropriated. 



Thai the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed and reipiired 

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

 within the boiindai'ies of ntitioual forests that may be opened to set- 

 tlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the 

 mitional forests, and the sum of $100,000 is hereby appropriated for 

 the purposes aforesaid: Prorided, That n(4 to exceed $35,000 of this 

 .sum may l>e expcnd«Ml under the direction of the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture i'or the examination, stirvey, ami platting of certain lands now 

 listed or (o l)e listed within national forests chiefly vabud)le for agri- 

 cidture and describing such lands by metes and bountls, as re(iuired 

 l)y the act of Jun(M'lev(Mitli. niiieieeu huuclretl and six (Thirty-fourth 

 Statute, pajxe two hundred and ihirly-lhree). and the act of March 



