Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-02
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
About 100000 Will Be Covered Into the
Treasury Unexpended.
Changes Made in the Work and Or
Those That Have Been Created.

The annual reports of the several bureau
officers of the Agricultural Department for
the fiscal year just ended will show a gen.
eral pruning of expenses. The figures In
Secretary Mortons report will show that
the regular expenditures for the depart
ment during the year aggregated about
Sl,SO.0O0 The appropriation for the same
period reached s2,506 915. There will there
fore be covered back into the treasury
about 100000. Last year 1927 lis was COW
cred back into the treasury. The exact
figures for that year We're 81. s13, 800 appro-
priated; s1,976.3s5 expended. Another fact
to which attention will be called in the
forthcoming reports is that with a few ex-
ton, all offices in the department are nov
comprised in the classified service. These eX-
ceptions include the Secretary. the assist
ant secretary their private secretaries and
several laborers.
Important Changes Made.
Several important changes In work and
organization are noted in connection with
the close of the fiscal year. Two divis-
ions. one of agrostology and the other of
agricultural soils, have been created and
now go into effect Prof. Lamson Scribner
is chief Of the former and Prof. Milton
Whitney is at the head of the other. Both
have been in charge of the work coming
under the new divisions for some time, but
now supervise the investigation on these
lines chiefs of Independent divisions. AS
a result of a recent legisla tive enactment.
the division Of records and editing ceases
to exist and becomes the division of publi-
cation, with Mr. George William Hill re-
appointed chief The division Of microscopy
Is abolished by order of Secretary Morton,
and its chief, DR.. Thomas Taylor, with two
assistants, retire from the service. A
dairying division has been created, and
goes into operation as part of the bureau
80 .o1 TIA, II Z ~
Virginia is chief. The Encouragement of
the system Of gathering crop statistics,
substituting agents for each OF the twenty
one groups Of states, instead Of having
agents for the individual states, also takes
effect. The policy of the department as will
be outlined is to secure for these offices
persons Of marked ability. and especially
those connected with the agricultural col
leges.
Bureau of Animal Industry.
The new regulations Of the bureau Of
animal industry take effect Immediately.
They materially extend the authority Of
the Secretary of Agriculture over the dis
position of diseased animals and their car
cases. The regulations authorize the Sec
rotary to make such rules and regulations
as may be necessary to prevent the trans
portation Of diseased animal carcasses be-
tween states and to foreign countries. The
Secretary is now empowered to enforce
tanking of all such carcasses, where here
tofore that was accomplished only by con-
cession or agreement of the abattoir calling
for the inspection. The following special
Investigations carried on last year will be
continued through this year: Nutrition for
human beings, conducted by Special Agent
W. o. Atwater; phenomena of thunder and
lightning, by Alexander Meade: those of
grasses and soils; the road inquiry, con-
Quoted from its inception by Gen. Roy
Stone; irrigation problems, Col. Irish; tests
of timber. by Prof. B. E. Fernow, and food
of plants, by Prof. H W. Wiley For the
practical work in the experiments on the
last two subjects separate buildings have
been erected on the Agricultural Depart
ment grounds