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Of the remainder, $56,500 is for statutory- 

 salaries and $37,500, a net increase of $5,000, 

 is for general expenses. The allotment of 

 $10,000 for the agricultural education service 

 was continued as at present. 



The nutrition investigations received an in- 

 crease of $5,000, making $15,000 available 

 for this purpose. This increase will enable 

 further extension of these investigations and 

 the preparation of popular bulletins setting 

 forth plans for the more economical and ef- 

 fective utilization of agricultural products as 

 human food, for which data a strong demand 

 has been in evidence. 



An estimate of $20,000, submitted for the 

 preparation, publication and dissemination of 

 original technical reports of the scientific in- 

 vestigations of the experiment stations by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with 

 the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, was favorably 

 recommended by both the house and senate 

 committees, but failed of passage. 



The Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Eico experi- 

 ment stations were given $30,000 each, an in- 

 crease of $2,000 in each case to equalize their 

 funds with those received by the state stations 

 from federal funds, and the Guam Station 

 was continued at $15,000. The clause re- 

 quiring the expenditure of $5,000 by the 

 Porto Eico Station for coffee experiments was 

 omitted, thereby restoring the coffee work to 

 the same basis on which it has been conducted 

 for many years previous to the passage of the 

 act for 1911. 



The irrigation and drainage investigations 

 each received $100,000, a net increase of $32,- 

 820 and $25,980, respectively. These increases 

 will enable the extension of these lines of 

 work, especially in the rendering of assistance 

 to settlers in newly irrigated regions, and in 

 formulating plans for the reclamation of 

 swamp lands. The provision requiring a 

 special report of the aggregate expenses in the 

 drainage investigations to date and the areas 

 in the several states and territories which 

 have been investigated was continued. 



The work of the remaining bureaus was 

 provided for along substantially the present 



lines. Including the increase previously noted 

 for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs 

 Act, the Bureau of Chemistry will receive 

 $68,080 more than at present, and a total of 

 $963,780. The Bureau of Statistics is given 

 $231,620; the Library, $40,500; the Office of 

 the Secretary, $276,450; the Division of Ac- 

 counts, $97,520; the Division of Publications, 

 $209,960, and the fund for contingent ex- 

 penses, $110,000. These all contain small in- 

 creases, occasioned in general by the growth 

 of the department. 



In addition to the sums carried in the ap- 

 propriation act itself, there should also be 

 considered the appropriation of $470,000 for 

 the department printing and binding, which 

 appears in the appropriation act for sundry 

 civil expenses. This represents a nominal in- 

 crease of $10,000, but $22,000 more than at 

 present is assigned to the Weather Bureau by 

 reason of the transfer of a portion of its 

 branch printing office, making a virtual de- 

 crease of $12,000 for the remainder of the de- 

 partment. There is also to be added the per- 

 manent appropriation of $3,000,000 for the 

 meat-inspection work. Deficiency appropria- 

 tions were granted, as well, of $923,192.90 for 

 the fighting of forest fires in 1910, the relief 

 of employees of the department killed or in- 

 jured in that campaign, and for horses and 

 equipment destroyed during it, and $35,000 

 for the enforcement of the Insecticide Act 

 during 1911. 



Additional funds which will be administered 

 by the department are provided in the meas- 

 ure enacted at the recent session of congress 

 for the protection of the watersheds of navig- 

 able streams, and popularly known as the 

 " Appalachian Forest Eeserve " Act. Under 

 this act the secretary of agriculture may ex- 

 pend $200,000, in cooperation with states re- 

 questing it, in the protection from fire of the 

 forested watersheds of navigable streams, irre- 

 spective of ownership. He is further author- 

 ized to purchase, following a favorable report 

 by the Geological Survey and the approval of 

 a National Forest Eeservation Commission, 

 of which he is ex-officio a member, lands lo- 

 cated at the headwaters of navigable streams, 



