LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAKTAIEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 39 



For exploration and investigation within the United States to 

 'tenuine possible sources of supply of potash, nitrates, and other 

 itural fertilizers, $25,000; 



For the investigation of soils and for indicating upon maps and 



ats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations, 



75,000; 



I For the examination and classification of agricultural lands in 

 •rest reserves in cooperation with the Forest Service, $20,000; 



For general administrative expenses connected with the above- 

 entioned lines of investigation, ii^3,800; 



In all. for general expenses, $280,400. 



Total for Bureau of Soils, $334,020. 



Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 845. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 tiscal year 1914, cited above. 



BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



iee " Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture." 



1912, pp. 19S-201.) 



CT MARCH 4. 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



lU REAU or ENTOMOLOGY. 



Salaries. Bi reau of Entomology: One entomologist, who shall 

 J chief of bureau. $4,500; one executive assistant, $2,250; one chief 

 erk. $1,800; two clerks, class four; three clerks, class three; six 

 erks. class two; five clerks, class one; six clerks, at $1,000 each; one 

 iperintendent of moth work, $2,750; one entomological assistant, 

 1,800; two entomological draftsmen, at $1,400 each; one ento- 

 lological draftsman, $1,080; four foremen, at $1,080 each; two ento- 

 lological preparators, at $840 each; one entomological preparator, 

 720; six entomological preparators, at $600 each; one messenger, 

 S40: two messengers or laborers, at $720 each; one mechanic. $840; 

 ne laborer. $.")40; two charwomen, at $480 each; one charwoman, 

 240; in all. $00,960. 



General expenses. Bureau of Entomology: For the promotion 

 f economic entomolog}'; for investigating the history and the habits 

 f insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, arbori- 

 ulture. and the study of insects afiecting the healfu of man and 

 omestic animals, and ascertaining the best means of destroying 

 lose found to be injurious; for collating, digesting, reporting, and 

 lustratim; the resuUs of such investigations; for salaries and the 

 mplovment of labor in the citv of AVashingt<m and elsewhere, rent 

 utsid'e of the District of Columbia, freight, express charges, official 

 raveliuL'- expen.ses. office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and" 

 Mephone service, gas. and electric current, in connection with the 

 ollowing investigations: 



i For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, 

 Jneyards. and nuts. $45,000; 



i For inve.stigations of insects affecting cereal and forage plants, 

 pcluding insects affecting wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, alfalfa. 

 |lover. and so forth. $00,000. of which amount not to exceed $10,000 

 hall be expended for the investigation of the range caterpillar; 



