FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1-186. 1904. 281 mental exports; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suit- I·“"°’“‘°’>'· able buil ing in the District of Columbia, at an annual rental of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be used as a laboratory for said Bureau of Animal Industry; and the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry outside of the city of Washington may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of A 'culture, without additional expense to the Government, be rantedillleaves of absence L°’"°“ °*“l’“°"°° not to exceed fifteen days in any one year: irovided, That the Secre- p,{,‘§§{’§,‘j,"°“ °* ‘“*"Y tary of Agriculture may construe the provisions of the Act of March V0!-26Zp-1090. third, eiglteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended March second, V°l`?'8’p'm` eighteen undred and ninety-tive, for the inspection of live cattle and products thereof,_to include dairy products intended for ex rtation to any foreign country and may apply, under rules and regulaiions to be prescribed by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certification appropriate for ascertaining the purity and quality of such products, and may cause the same to be so marked, stamped or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign countries to which they may be sent from the United States their purity, quality, and grade; and all the provisions of said act relating to live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy products so inspected and certilied. For experiments in animal breeding and feedin in cooperation with etfmm l”‘°°*”¤8· State Agricultural Stations, twenty-five thousanc? dollars. I Total Bureau of Animal Industry, one million three hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. · d?.,}','??"" m‘“"“' Bunmu or PLANT Iimuscnzr, sALAmns: One plant playsiolog-ist, sums. _ and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, four thousan five hundred dollars; one plant hysiologist and pathologist, two thousand seven hundred and fifty cibllars; one botamst, two thousand five hundred dollars; one pomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one agrostologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant pomologist, one thousand eight' Eundred dollars; one assistant agrostologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks class two, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. · GENERAI. EXPENSES, BUREAU or PLANT INDUSTRY: VEGETABLE Qmgxwgg- _ rATr1oLoo1cAL AND ruYs1oLoG1oAL 1xvDsT1GATroxs: Investigating the mi. sec., diivssug. nature of diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, vege- m'"" table, 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 orintroduce 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 lants, particularly with reference to the California vine diseases and diseases of the sugar beet, in cooperation
