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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. 11. cu. 256. 1910. 433 ‘ BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. mggge of Eete Sananrns Bunmn or Errromorocrz One eutomologist, who shall Se1¤¤e¤· be chief of bureau, four thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, class three; four clerks, class two; one artist, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand two hundred and eight dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES,§U"REAU or ENTOMOLOGYZ For the promotion general epeneeg of economic entomology; for investigating the history and the habits secltggga `°° ° °` of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture, and ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be imjurious; for salaries, the emplofyment of labor, and rent in the city o Washington and elsewhere, reight, express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegra h and telephone service, gas, and ·electric current, m connection with the following investigations: ` For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, F¤¤•¢¤ee¤» e¢¤~ vineyards, nuts, and so forth including investigations of the dpear thrips, cranberry insects, and apple maggots, orty thousan six hundred dollars; For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage plants, we fence twenty-five thousand dollars; P For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, including S¤¤¤¤e¤= we ewwthe cotton boll weevil and other insects injurious to cotton, insects affecting tobacco rice, and sugar cane, the Argentine ant, and life · history studies of ticks forty-seven thousand dollars; d {or investigations of insects affecting forests, fourteen thousand F°"°"°’- 0 ars; For investigations of insects affectin truck cro s stored ""°°* °'°P°· °*°*°d ang other stored products, sixteen thovfsand two hiiridred and fifty mm'm` o ars; For investigations in bee culture, ten thousand dollars; B°° °“““’°· For investigations of insects affecting citrus fruits, includin the °“'“’“"“’* white fly, orange thrips, and for car mg on investigations of the hydmcyanic-acid gas process,sixteen ltiiousand five hundred dollars; and for the investigation in this and foreign countries to discover the “'**“° *"¥· natural enemy of the white fly and means of employing that for destroying the white Hy, five thousand dollars; For investigations of miscellaneous insects, inspection work, study ,,,Mf‘“““"""“" of insects affecting the health of man and animals, insecticides, and the importation and exchan e of useful insects, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; In all, for general expenses, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred dollars. d b Pnnvmrrion or srnnan or moms: To enable the Secretary of ¤,fi’§Y;,§_“` mm Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread 0 the gypsy and brown-tail moths by establishing and maintaining a quarantine against further spread in such manner as he shall deem best, in cooperation with the authorities of the different States concerned and with the several state experiment stations, including rent and employment of labor in the city of Washington and elseghliire, and all other necessary expenses, three hundred thousand o ars. Total for Bureau of Entomology, five hundred and thirty-two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.