62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 543-JUNE 19, 1948 rice, rubber crops, sorghums, soybeans, sugar beets, sugarcane, tobacco. wheat, and other fields crops, $2,672,300. Fruit, vegetable, and specialty crops: For investigations on the pro- duction, improvement, and diseases of fruit, vegetable, nut, orna- mental, drug, condiment, oil, insecticide, and related crops and plants, $2,578,100. Forest diseases: For investigations of diseases of forest and shade trees and forest products, and methods for their control, $380,480. Soils, fertilizers, and irrigation: For investigations of soil manage- ment methods to increase and maintain productivity, including ferti- lization, liming, crop rotations, tillage practices, and other means of improving soils; fertilizers, fertilizer ingredients, and their improve- ment for agricultural use; soil management and crop production on dry and irrigated lands, and the quality of irrigation water and its use by crops; and for the classification of soils in a national system and indication of their extent and distribution on maps, and determi- nation of their potential productivity under adapted cropping and improved soil management; $1,524,000: Provided,That the irrigation experiment station at Bard, California, may be sold upon such terms as the Secretary deems advantageous, and the proceeds of such sale are to be available for the establishment and equipment of an irriga- tion station at or near Brawley, California, or the Secretary may if he deems it desirable exchange in lieu of sale the Bard Station for a suitable site or facilities at or near Brawley, and in connection with the establishment of the new station the Secretary may accept donations: Provided further,That the Secretary shall have contractual authority in an amount not to exceed $100,000 to construct and/or acquire buildings, facilities, and equipment for the station at Brawley. Agricultural engineering: For investigations involving the appli- cation of engineering principles to agriculture, including farm power and equipment, rural water supply and sanitation, and rural electri- fication; farm buildings and their appurtenances and buildings for processing and storing farm products, and the preparation and distri- bution of building plans and specifications; cotton ginning, and other engineering problems relating to the production, processing, trans- portation, and storage of agricultural products; $685,690. National Arboretum: For the maintenance and development of the National Arboretum established under the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1927 (20 U. S . C. 191-194), including travel expenses of the advisory council and the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle in the District of Columbia, $413,900, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for the construction of entrance facilities, including a guardhouse and rest rooms, and not to exceed $10,000 may be expended for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C . 574) as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, demonstra- tions, and surveys for the promotion of economic entomology, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects and related pests injurious to agriculture, for importing useful and beneficial insects and bacterial, fungal, and other diseases of insects and related pests, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects affecting man and animals, and the best ways of utilizing beneficial insects, for carrying into effect the provisions of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20,1912, as amended (7 U. S . C . 151-167), the Honey Bee Act (7 U. S . C . 281-283), the Insect Pest 517 Experiment station, Bard, Calif. Contractual author- ity. 44 Stat. 143 58 Stat. 742 . 60 Stat. 810. 37 Stat. 315 . 7U.&C ., 8upp.L i. 42 Stat. 833 .
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