FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 85. 1898. 333 for employment of artists, laborers, andcharwomen, fivetheusand dollars ; in all, seventy-one thousand tour hundred and forty dollars. COLLECTING AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, DIVISION OF STATISTICS: Investigations and Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, °‘{§§’€?§Y;,, ,,1- stm,. writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and *i¤¤- special reports; special investigations and compilations; subscriptions to and purchase of statistical publications containing data for permanent comparative records, maps, and charts, stationery supplies, blanks, blank books, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage stamps, freight, and express charges, and necessary traveling expenses: Provided, That the monthly crop report issued on the tenth day of each gte1g1M- month shall embrace a statement of the condition of the crops, by pong? Y mp "` States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and oihcially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being issued or published: Provided also, That ten ofigiqnding •l;¤·;¤n·¤¤ thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated, or so much mg" um ° °' thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, may be » expended in continuing the investigations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands of foreign markets for the agricultural products of the United States and to secure as far as may be a change in the methods of supplying tobacco and other farm products to foreign coun· T<>b=w¤¤, vwtries, one hundred and five thousand dollars. BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS Ann nxrniumnirrs, Drvrsron or Bor- Di'i¤i°¤ °‘ Bmnv- ANY: Investigations relating to medicinal and other economic plants and seeds, the collection of plants, traveling expenses, and express charges; the purchase of paper and all other necessary supplies, materials, and apparatus, and necessary labor; subscriptions to and purchase of botanical publications for use in the division and the preparation, illustration, and publication of reports; and the Secretary of Agricul- “f;{;’°h*°° °‘ °mrl° ture is hereby authorized to purchase samples of seeds in open market, ` test same, and when found not up to standard he may, at his discretion, publish the results of these tests, together with the names of the seedsmen by whom the seeds were sold; twenty thousand dollars, of which amount a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may_be used for the efl;]*;;};°“° *`°* °¤· erection of a plant house for conducting botanical experiments, and not P ` exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for the rent and alteration of a building for onice and laboratory purposes. _ ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY: ,__:f},‘g€}°“ °' E"'" Promotion of economic entomology; investigating the history and ` habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture, including an investigation into the ravages of the gypsy moth; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious; chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other materials, supplies, and instruments required in conducting such experiments and investigations; freight and express charges and necessary traveling expenses; compensation of additional temporary assistants, investiga tors, and agents, and preparing, illustrating, and publishing the results of the work of the division, twenty thousand dollars. _ VEGETABLE PATHOLOGICAL -n•tvms·r1cA·r10Ns, Division on VnG— mf,}§*{,g;’;*s,j,f,gQ`j§,f, ETABLE Pnrsrorocr Ann Pxrrroroeyz Investigating the nature of rmwng3—. ‘ diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, vegetables, and other useful plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; chemicals, gas, and apparatus required in the field and laboratory; necessary traveling expenses; the preparation of reports and illustrations; the rent of a building, not to exceed six hundred and sixty dollars per annum; and for other expenses connected with the practical work of the investigation, twenty thousand dollars; of which so much thereof as may be directed by the Secretary of Agriculture may be applied to the investigation of peach yellows, California grape disease, root rot, and blight of cotton, pear blight, and the diseases of citrus fruits, and remedies therefor.
