messengers (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one messenger (now laborer), four hundred and eighty dollars; two watchmen (now laborers), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; three watchmen (now laborers), at six hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, or messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three messenger boys, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.

GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.

General expenses.

VEGETABLE PATHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS: Vegetable patholog ical, etc., investige Investigating the nature of diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, tions. grain, cotton, vegetable, and other useful plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; the study of plant physiology in relation to crop production and the improvement of crops by breeding and selection; to investigate the diseases affecting citrus fruits, pineapples, and truck crops grown during the winter in the Southern States; to investigate canaigre and other tannin-bearing plants; to investigate and report upon the diseases affecting plants on the Pacific coast; to originate or introduce improved varieties of fruits and vegetables in cooperation with the section of seed and plant introduction; to study the relation of soil and climatic conditions to diseases of plants, particularly with reference to the California vine diseases and diseases of the sugar beet, in cooperation with the Bureau of Soils, and for other purposes connected with the discovery and practical application of improved methods of crop production; to continue the work of originating, by breeding and selection, in cooperation with the other divisions of the Department and the experiment stations, new varieties of oranges, lemons, and other tropical and subtropical fruits more resistant to cold and disease and of better quality; varieties of wheat and other cereals more resistant to rust and smut and better suited to the various sections of this country; varieties of rice more resistant to "rice blight," and for experiments for the substitution of other products on rice lands; varieties of cotton more resistant to disease and of longer and better staple; varieties of pears and apples more resistant to blight and better adapted for export, and varieties of tobacco of uniform type and of better quality; to investigate the causes of decay in forest timber and timber used for construction purposes, and to devise means for preventing the decay of the same; to investigate the practical application in agriculture of the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria and other micro-organisms in soils and in the root tubercles of leguminous and other plants; to cultivate and distribute these nitrogen fixers and to determine the conditions most favorable to their development; to study and find methods for preventing algal and other contaminations of water supplies; the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, students or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for telegraph and telephone service; for gas and electric current; purchase of chemicals and apparatus required in the field and laboratory; actual and necessary traveling expenses; for express and freight charges; the preparation of reports and illustrations; the rent and repairs of a building, not to exceed six thousand dollars per annum; all necessary office fixtures and supplies and for other expenses con

Grain

tions.

nected with the practical work of the investigation, one hundred and fifty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars, of which sum ten investiga- thousand dollars shall be immediately available.

Pomological investigations.

Vine diseases.

For all expenses, including the employment of labor in Washington or elsewhere, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Bureau of Plant Industry, to carry on special investigations, in cooperation with the State experiment stations, of the conditions of grain production in the United States and of the means of improving the same; to develop varieties suited to semiarid districts and high altitudes; to determine the best methods of cultivation of grain for different districts; to make possible a further extension northward of winter grains by increasing their hardiness; to determine the cause of the deterioration of grain from the milling standpoint, in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry; to investigate the conditions affecting the quality of stored grain and grain in transit, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and forty dollars.

POMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS: Investigating, collecting, and disseminating information relating to the fruit industry; the collection and distribution of seeds, shrubs, trees, and specimens; and for collecting and modeling fruits, vegetables, and other plants, and furnishing duplicate models to the experiment stations of the several States, as far as found practicable; the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, students or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for gas and electric current; for telegraph and telephone services; for express and freight charges; for. rent and repairs, not to exceed two thousand dollars; for all necessary office fixtures and supplies and for traveling and other necessary expenses; to continue the investigations and experiments in the introduction of the culture of European table grapes and the study of the diseases that affect them, for the purpose of discovering remedies therefor, this work to be done in cooperation with the section of seed and plant introduction; to investigate in cooperation with the other divisions and bureaus of the Department and the experiment stations of the several States the market conditions affecting the fruit and vegetable trade in the United States and foreign countries, and the methods of harvesting, packing, storing, and shipping fruit and vegetables, and for experimental shipments of fruits and vegetables to foreign countries, for the purpose of increasing the exportation of American fruits and vegetables, and for all necessary expenses connected with the practical work of the same, and such fruits, vegetables, packages, and packing material as are needed for those investigations and experimental shipments may be bought in open market and disposed of at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is authorized to apply the moneys received from the sales of such fruits and vegetables toward the continuation and repetition of these investigations and experimental shipments, and such moneys shall be available until used; to investigate, map, and report upon the commercial fruit districts of the United States, for the purpose of determining the relative adaptability of the several important fruits thereto, by a study of the conditions of soil and climate, and of the prevalence of plant diseases existing therein as related to commercial fruit production, thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars, ten thousand dollars of which sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary, be expended in cooperation with the experiment station of the State of California for determining the adaptability of various grape stocks to the different soil and climatic conditions of the Pacific coast and their resistance to disease.

BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS: Investigations relating to medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other economic plants, seeds, and weeds; the collection of plants, traveling expenses, and express and freight charges; for all necessary office fixtures; the purchase of paper and all other necessary supplies, materials, and apparatus; for rent and ordinary repairs of a building for office and laboratory purposes, not to exceed three thousand dollars; for gas and electric current; for telegraph and telephone service; for the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids, and other labor in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; subscriptions to, and purchase of, botanical publications for use in the division; and the preparation, illustration, and publication of reports; to investigate and publish reports upon the useful plants and plant cultures of the tropical territory of the United States, and to investigate, report upon, and introduce other plants promising to be valuable for the tropical territory of the United States, such plants and botanical and agricultural information when secured to be made available for the work of agricultural experiment stations and schools; to investigate the varieties of cereals grown in the United States or suitable for introduction, in order to standardize the naming of varieties as a basis for the experimental work of the State experiment stations, and as an assistance in commercial grading, and to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, the cause of deterioration of export grain, particularly in oceanic transit, and devise means of preventing losses from those causes. The Secretary is hereby directed to obtain in the open market samples of seeds of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, and if any such seeds are found to be adulterated or misbranded, or any seeds of Canada blue grass (Poa compressa) are obtained under any other name than Canada blue grass or Poa compressa, to publish the results of the tests, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were offered for sale, sixty-three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. GRASS AND FORAGE PLANT INVESTIGATIONS: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct investigations of grasses, forage plants, and animal foods in cooperation with other divisions of the Department; to collect and purchase seeds, roots, and specimens of valuable economic grasses and forage plants for investigation; experimental cultivation and distribution, and for experiments and reports upon the best methods of extirpating Johnson and other noxious and destructive grasses; to purchase tools, all necessary office fixtures, materials, apparatus, and supplies; to pay freight, express charges, and traveling expenses; for telegraph and telephone service; for gas and electric current; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent and repairs of a building not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; to prepare drawings and illustrations for circulars, reports, and bulletins; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in establishing and maintaining experimental grass stations, for determining the best methods of caring for and improving meadows and grazing lands, the use of different grasses and forage plants, and their adaptability to various soils and climates, the best native and foreign species for reclaiming overstocked ranges and pastures, for renovating worn-out lands, for binding drifting sands and washed lands, and for turfing lawns and pleasure grounds, and for solving the various forage problems presented in the several sections of our country, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.

Experimental gardens and grounds.

Equipping greenhouses.

Arlington mental farm.

Vol. 31, p. 135.

EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS AND GROUNDS: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employment of assistants, experts, foremen, gardeners, laborers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics, in the city of Washington or elsewhere, machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, plows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, watering cans, tubs, pots, and other implements required in cultivation; lumber, hardware, glass, paints, tin, stones, gravel, and other material required for repairs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blacksmithing, horseshoeing, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagating purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, fuel, freight and express charges, repairing roadways and walks, traveling and other necessary expenses, and for electric lighting, for telegraph and telephone services, and for all necessary office fixtures and supplies, twenty thousand three hundred and twenty dolnew lars, of which sum five thousand dollars shall be immediately available for fuel and necessary equipment for new greenhouses.

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Land set apart.

Tea-culture investigations.

Seeds.

Purchase, distribution, etc

ARLINGTON EXPERIMENTAL FARM: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the necessary improvements to establish and maintain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, and for all necessary fixtures, supplies, material, apparatus, and other expenses, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agricul ture and his successors in office," which Act shall be construed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors jurisdiction over so much of the Government land in Alexandria County, Virginia, known as the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows: Commencing at the point where the Georgetown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the north line of the reservation, twenty thousand dollars.

TEA-CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS: For all expenses necessary, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on the cost of making tea and the best method of cultivating and preparing the same for market, so as to demonstrate whether it is practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry, and for all necessary fixtures, supplies, apparatus, material, and other expenses, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF VALUABLE SEEDS: For the purchase, propagation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; for rent and repairs; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere; all necessary office fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum, printing, postal cards, gas, and electric current, traveling expenses, and all necessary, material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same, and to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, two

Allotment.

Seeds, etc., to be adapted to locality.

tribution.

Distribution of un

hundred and forty-two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, of which amount not less than two hundred and two, thousand dollars shall be allotted for Congressional distribution. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing, and distribution of such valuable seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, the best he can obtain at a public or private sale, and such as shall be suitable for the respective localities to which the same are to be apportioned, and in which same are to be distributed as hereinafter stated, and such seeds so purchased shall include a variety of vegetable and flower seeds suitable for planting and culture in the various sections of the United States. An equal Congressional disproportion of two-thirds of all seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants shall, upon their request, after due notification by the Secretary of Agriculture that the allotment to their respective districts is ready for distribution, be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents, or mailed by the Department upon the receipt of their addressed franks; such franks to be furnished by the Public Printer, as is now done for document slips, with the names of Senators, Members, and Delegates printed thereon, and the words "United States Department of Agriculture, Congressional Seed Distribution," or such other phraseology as the Secretary may direct; and the person receiving such seeds shall be requested to inform the Department of the results of the experiments therewith: Provided, That all seeds, bulbs, plants, and cuttings herein allotted to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress called for seeds, etc. for distribution remaining uncalled for on the first of April shall be distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture, giving preference to those persons whose names and addresses have been furnished by Senators and Representatives in Congress, and who have not before, during the same season, been supplied by the Department: And provided also, That the Secretary shall report, as provided in this Act, the Report of purchases. place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from sending seeds to those who apply for the same. And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, mulberry and other rare and valuable trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: Provided, however, That upon each envelope or wrapper containing Indications on packages of seeds the contents thereof shall be plainly indicated, and the Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents: Provided also, That the seeds allotted to Senators and Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and thirty-fourth parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery not later than the tenth day of January: Provided further, That thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars of which sum, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct, mental tests. may be used to collect, purchase, test, propagate, and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries or from our possessions for experiments with reference to their introduction into and cultivation in this country; and the seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants thus collected, purchased, tested, and propagated shall not be included in general distribution, but shall be used for experimental tests, to be carried on with the cooperation of the agricultural experiment stations: And provided also, That ten thousand dollars of the sum thus appropriated, Seed warehouse.

No diversion of appropriation.

wrapper.

Seeds to be adapted to locality.

Early delivery to southern section.

Purchase of foreign seeds, etc., for experi