868 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1405. 1905. nected with the practical work of the investigation, one hundred and fifty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars, of which sum ten ‘ 6,,;, mums,. thousand dollars shall be immediately available. _ _ “°'¤*· -. 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 gram production in the United States and of the means of improving the same; to develop varieties suited to semiarid districts and high.aIti— tudes; to determine the best methods of cultivation of grain for different districts; to make possible a further extension northward of winter rains 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 thousan dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and forty ' dollars. -
h""` Pomonoercn. mvnsnonions: Investigating, collecting, and dissemiuatin infomation relating to the fruit industry; the collection
and distrilmtion 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 scientihc 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 an electric current; for te egraph 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 aifecting 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, pwkages, 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 egperimental shipments, and suc moneys shall be available until us ; 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 vmsmsems dollars of which sum may, in the discretion of the Secretarv, be expended in cooperation with the experiment station of the State of California for determining the adaptability of various grape stocks to the dilferent soil and climatic conditions of the Paciiic coast and their resistance to disease.
