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148 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 109-MAY 5, 1945 [59 STAT. CONTROL OF EMERGENCY OUTBREAKS OF INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES To enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of and for expenditures authorized by the joint resolution approved May 9, 52Stat. 4. 1938 (7 U. S. C. 148-148e), including the operation and maintenance Cooda.tio n wi th of airplanes and the purchase of not to exceed three, and surveys and control operations in Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Gov- ernment or local Canadian authorities, and the employment of Canadian citizens, $2,700,000. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For investigations, experiments, and demonstrations hereinafter authorized, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Department, other departments or agencies of the Federal Gov- ernment, States, State agricultural experiment stations, universities, and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business, farm, or other organizations and corporations, individuals, associations, and scientific societies, including the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and else- where, of which not to exceed $176,528 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Agricultural chemical investigations: For conducting the investi- 12Stat. 387. gations contemplated by the Act of May 15, 1862 (5 U. S . C. 511, 512), relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture; for the biological, chemical, physical, microscopical, and technological inves- tigation of foods, feeds, drugs, plant and animal products, and sub- stances used in the manufacture thereof; for investigations of the physiological effects and for the pharmacological testing of such products and of insecticides; for the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of sugars, sugar sirups, and starches and the utilization of new agricultural materials for such purposes; for the technological investigation of the utilization of fruits and vegetables and for frozen pack investigations; and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the development of methods of analysis, $350,000. Naval-stores investigations: For the investigation of naval stores (turpentine and rosin) and their components; the investigation and experimental demonstration of improved equipment, methods, or processes of preparing naval stores; the weighing storing, handling, transportation, and utilization of naval stores; and for the assembling and compilation of data on production, distribution, and consumption 49stat.6 .a of turpentine and rosin, pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S. C. 556b), $125,000. Regional research laboratories: For continuing the researches estab- lished under the provisions of section 202 (a) to 202 (e), inclusive, 52Stat.37. of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S . C . 1292), including research on food products of farm commodities, $4,000,000. BUREAU OF HUMAN NuTRrIION AND HoME ECONoMIcs Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to ex- ceed $236,184 for personal services in the District of Columbia, of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics for conducting, either independently or in cooperation with other agencies, investi- gations of the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special sugges-