The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-26
IN AID OF AGRICULTURE
The Annual Appropriation Bill Re-
ported to the House.
The Total Amount Carried by the
Measure S4,371.2OO Increase of
Salaries for Scientists - Additional
Weather stations Provided For
Establishment of New Bureaus.

The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
reported to the House of Representatives
yesterday. The amount appropriated for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1901, was
S4.O23,J00 The amount carried by the
present bill is S4,317 .22O, being an increase
of 1888, 100, and s91, $50 less than the csti-
mates
or the increase named s6S,a2O is the APP
parent increase in salaries, but in fact
only $4,000 is the actual increase, SAP ,72O
being transferred from the salaries here
/ tofore paid from the lump sum aprTopl ia
lions and now made statutory. of this
! $4,000 actual increase 800 is for the
salaries of additional scientists-three for
the Weather Bureau and four who are to
! be the directors of scientific huroaus--snd
( $1,000 is for increased salaries allowed
! scientists in the several scientific bureaus
and divisions
The increase for lump sum aEpropria-
tons for the scientific and miscellaneous
expenditures Of the department is S2S5. 600
and of this increase the items are as
follows:
Weather Bureau-Eighty thousand dol
lars, recommended and allowed. for the
purpose of establishing new stations new
buildings where needed. a new cable TO
Iatoosh Island. State of Washington, and
Tor the circulation of daily weather re-
ports by the newly established rural free
delivery routes.
Bureau of Animal Industry. $50. 600.
recommended and allowed to meet the in
creasing demand for inspection of meats
ana animal products, and also to meet
emergencies which may be caused by sud-
zen ana unforeseen outbreaks of conta-
-gious animal diseases.
For vegetable pathological physiological
Investigations, 1900; for botanical in
vestigations and experiments. 10000; for
pomologicsl Investigations. $500; for
psychological grass and forage plants)
Investigations, $1,000; for forestry investi-
cations. S66.9O0; for Division of Publica-
tons, $500: for Bureau of Soils (soils
survey, $66. 900; for entomological inyes-
legations. S3,o00; for biological investiga-
tons, $500; for agricultural experiment
stations, $4,000; for public road enquiries,
600.
The increases allowed by the committee |
are recommended by the Secretary of Ag-
rlculture IS necessary to meet the con- |
stantly growing demands of the agricul- |
tural interests of the country
In the Encouragement OF the scientific |
corps of the department. provided for by |
the Dlil, iour Sclentinc bureaus are eStdb- |
lisEed, as follows: The Bureau of Plant /
industry, to include what were formerly |
the divisions of botany. vegetable path
ology and physiology, pomology, agrostol- |
ogy, and experimental gardens and
grounds; the Bureau of Forestry. which
Is to include all the forestry work of the
United States. including the forest re-
serves; the Bureau OF Chemistry, and
the Bureau of Soils, which is to include
the Investigations in tobacco growing.
Tha salaries to be paid the directors of
these bureaus and their assistants have
after consideration and comparison with
those paid similar scientists in the va
rious educational institutions Of the coun-
-ry, been fixed as follows: Director. So
800 and the various assistants at So, 600.
=. 500, and 81 600, respectively.
The question of salaries for the SCI
entific corps of the Department OF Agri-
culture has been a matter of considera-
ion by the Committee on Agriculture for
he last six years and II is the conclusion
II the committee that these scientists
nave not In the past been paid sa,aries
commensurate with their qualifications or
,qual to those paid by universities and
corporations for similar and equal attain
nents and services.