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as, for example, in this oiEce and the Bureau 

 of Statistics — involve but a few employees, 

 but in the case of the Forest Service, where 

 1,894 forest rangers and similar employees are 

 to be transferred, they occasion an apparent 

 increase in the appropriations for statutory 

 salaries from $60,200 for the current year to 

 $2,318,680, with a corresponding deduction 

 from lump-fund appropriations. The lump- 

 fund appropriations, therefore, for a particu- 

 lar purpose, such as biological investigations 

 or soil-survey work, no longer indicate so 

 completely as they did previously the entire 

 expenditures for these objects. Comparison 

 is still possible, however, as regards the aggre- 

 gate appropriations of the bureaus. 



The Weather Bureau receives a total of 

 $1,600,250. Of this amount, $15,000 is for the 

 restoration of the "Weather Bureau station at 

 Key West, Florida, wrecked by hurricanes in 

 October, 1910. The allotment for mainte- 

 nance of the bureau printing-office was re- 

 duced to $18,000 by reason of the recent 

 transfer of a portion of the equipment to the 

 Government Printing Office. For investiga- 

 tion of climatology and evaporation $120,000 

 was provided, as at present. 



The appropriations to the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry aggregate $1,654,750. Aside 

 from the increase due to the transfers from 

 the meat-inspection act, previously referred 

 to, the chief additions are those of $7,120 for 

 the tick-eradication work, making that appro- 

 priation $250,000; an increase of $7,000 for 

 the work of the Dairy Division', making its 

 total $150,000; and of $7,640 for the Animal 

 Husbandry Division, or $47,480 for that work. 

 Under a new clause inserted in the act, the 

 Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to per- 

 mit, under certain conditions, the admission 

 of tick-infested cattle from Mexico into those 

 portions of Texas below the quarantine line. 



New appropriations were made of $65,000 

 for the purchase of land for quarantine sta- 

 tions near Baltimore, Md., and Boston, Mass. ; 

 $10,000 for equipping the 475-acre experiment 

 farm which has recently been acquired at 

 Beltsville, Md., and $16,500 for constructing 

 buildings at this farm and that at Bethesda, 



Md. It is expected to utilize the Beltsville 

 farm for the experimental work of the Animal 

 Husbandry and Dairy Divisions, and to re- 

 serve that at Bethesda for pathological in- 

 vestigations. 



One of the largest increases in the bill was 

 accorded to the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 which will receive $303,480 additional, ma- 

 king its total $2,061,686. The lump-fund ap- 

 propriation for general expenses is $1,441,536, 

 which is divided among thirty projects. Some 

 of the largest of these are $350,000 for the 

 boll-weevil campaign (a net increase of $106,- 

 945) ; methods of crop production in the semi- 

 arid or dry-land sections, and for the utiliza- 

 tion of lands reclaimed under the Eeclama- 

 tion Act, for which a net increase of $38,270 

 and a total of $143,060 is granted; $142,920 

 for the farm management studies, of which 

 $4,000 is to be used in agricultural reeonnois- 

 sance work in Alaska; studies of the produc- 

 tion, handling, grading, and transportation 

 of grains, for which $135,005 is available, an 

 increase of $24,500; and the studies of fruit 

 improvement and the methods of growing, 

 packing and marketing fruits, which will have 

 $87,735. The investigations of the cotton in- 

 dustry were extended to include the ginning 

 and wrapping of cotton. 



For the purchase and distribution of valu- 

 able seeds and plants the allotment made was 

 $289,680. This is an apparent decrease of $19,- 

 910, but it is accounted for in part by trans- 

 fers of clerical employees to the statutory roll 

 of the bureau, and in part by the segregation 

 as a distinct project of $20,000, which was 

 formerly supported from this fund. The two 

 items comprising this appropriation are the 

 congressional seed distribution, which is con- 

 tinued on the usual basis, with $237,160, and 

 the allotment for the introduction of seeds 

 and plants from foreign countries, which is 

 increased to $52,520. 



The appropriations to the Forest Service 

 reached a total of $5,533,100, in addition to 

 the various emergency appropriations to which 

 reference has been made. This, as usual, 

 represents the largest appropriation to any 

 one bureau, and is also the largest increase 



