Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-08-11
WILSON, S BUREAUS EXPENSIVE
Agricultural Departments Growth Has
Been Remarkable.

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Widespread attention has been at
tracted by recent statements that the
Department of Agriculture is being
run on extravagant lines and that a
great waste of the public money is go
| Ing on under the official subterfuge
adopted by Secretary Wilson and his
200 scientists that they are 1.-THE friends
of the farmer
The department of the current fiscal
year costs $6,692, $50, or more than
double what it did nine years ago
The work of the Bui eau of Plant
Industry in 1901 was done by various
divisions, which cost $304 $40. with a
salary roll Of $4S .0S0. Since the Bureau
of Plant Industry has been created the
salary roll has increased in four years
from $46, ,0S0 to $157 800. The total ex
penses of the bureau have increased
from 1901 $40 to $776 $50. AT the head
of the bureau is a plant psychologist
and pathologist, at $4, 500 salary, chief
clerk at 81, 600 and superintendent at
$500. There are also employed 15S
clerks. mechanics, laborers, watchmen
aud messengers, at salaries ranging
from $500 to 81 800 a year, the total
salary roll being nearly $l59,000
One would suppose this was the en-
tire roster of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, but it is not. Under the item
OF vegetable, pathological and physi-
Cal Investigations, costing $145, $40. the
bureau is authorized "to employ in
vestigators, local and special agents,
clerks, assistants, students or scientific
aides and other labor required in con
ducting experiments III the city of
Washington and elsewhere.
Then again, for all expenses, incIud-
ing 1.-The employment of labor in Wash
iDgton and elsewhere in connection
with the State experiment stations"
$3.50, $40 is appropriated.
Provision for the employment of
extra help is made III connection with
the botanical Investigations, grasses
for age. plant investigation, expert
mental garden and grounds, the Ar
lington experimental farm, the tea
culture investigation, the seed distrib-
ution and the investigation of the pro-
duction OF domestic sugar.
The Division of Forestry in 1908 had
an appropriation of So, $40 for salaries,
which includes six employees, and $780,
600 for the purpose OF making forestry
Investigations. In four years the ap-
preparation for this bureau has increas-
cd to 1875, 40. From six employees in
1901 the pay roll in the bureau at
Washington alone has increased to a
chief of bureau at $3, 500. chief of di-
vision of records at $2, 200 and SO en-
ployes, with salaries from $500 to ST.
800. In addition to this there is an
appropriation of $793, 600 for the pur-
pose of investigating forestry, forest
fires and numbering.
The Bureau of Animal Industry in
1901 had allowance for salaries in Wash
ington of $78, $50 and for salaries and
expenses throughout the country ST.
000, 900. The expenses of the bureau
now amount to 81, 500, 600.
The total appropriation for the
Weather Bureau in 1901 was 81 ,056, 800.
The expenses of the bdreau in four
year have grown to 81, 1893 800.
The Bureau of Publications in 1901
spent $3.50, ,020. The proportion on ac-
count of salaries was only $25, ,020. The
salary list provided for il this year 's
appropriation has jumped to a total OF
$114,370