

40 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, includ- 

 ing insects affecting cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and so forth, 

 and the Argentine ant. $50,000: 



For investigations of insects affecting forests, $44,750; 



For investigations of insects affecting truck crops, including insects 

 affecting the potato, sugar beet, cabbage, onion, tomato, beans, peas, 

 and so forth, and insects affecting stored products, $35,000; 



For investigations in bee culture, $15,000; 



For investigations of insects affecting tropical and subtropical 

 fruits, including insects affecting the orange, lemon, grapefruit, 

 mango, and so forth, $21,500; 



For investigations of the Mediterranean fl}- in the United States, 

 its Territories and possessions, $35,000 ; 



For investigations of miscellaneous insects, including the study of 

 insects affecting the health of man and domestic animals, household 

 insects, the importation and exchange of useful insects, and experi- 

 ments with insecticides and insecticide machinery, $45,000; 



In all, for general expenses, $381,250, 



Preventing spread of moths: To enable the Secretary of xVgri- 

 culture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of 

 the irvpsv and brown-tail moths bv establishini? and maintaining: a 

 quarantine against further spread in such manner as he shall deem 

 best, in cooperation with the authorities of the different States con- 

 cerned and with the several State experiment stations, including rent 

 outside of the District of Columbia, the omjiloyment of labor in the 

 city of AVashington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, 

 $300,000. 



Total for Bureau of Entomology, $742,210. 



Act March 4. 101.''.. c. H.j. .37 St;it. 84'*. 



These are provisions of the agricultiirnl appropriiition act for the fiscal 

 year 1914, cited above. 



BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



(See "Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Ajincultnre." 1012. 



pp. 201-227.) 



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



Migratory game and insectivorous birds deemed under protection of the United 

 States; destruction, etc., prohibited. 



All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, wood- 

 cock, rail, wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectiv- 

 orous birds which in their northern and southern migrations pass 

 through or do not remain permnnontly the entire year within the 

 holders of any State or Territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be 

 within the custody and protection of the Government of the United 

 Stati's, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary to regulations 

 hereinafter provided tiierefor. 



Kegulations prescribing closed seasons; killing, capturing, etc., migratory birds 

 during closed seasons unlawful; punishment for violations of act or regula- 

 tions. 



The Department of .Vgriculture is hereby authorized and directed 

 (o ndojtt snital)k' regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph 



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