Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
Department of Agriculture.

Appropriated for 1890, s155, 729, $50;
deduct portion expended in 1929 or
transferred, $s2 ,667; $155, 637 1928; add
unexpended balances continued avail
able, $l4,6S6,4S3; total available for
1880. $170,323,s 300.
Deduct amounts available in 1880 for
specific projects not included in 1881
estimates: Flood relief, road repairs
Vermont, New Hampshire. and Ken
lucky, $5,2So,16s; Missouri, MISSISSIPPI Igo
Louisiana, and Arkansas, $3,654OOO;
loans to farmers in Southeastern States,
s375.oO0: Fourth Worlds Poultry Con-
aress, 425, 900; Mediterranean fruit ny,
S5p35 900; S1o,369, 169.
Net total for 1890, $3.50 54,637;
Budget estimate for 1881, $l65, OBS BOG ;
unexpended balances continued avail
able, $4,000 total for 1891, $685.
SOC; increase 1881 over 1880 for regular
continuing activities, $5,943,66
This increase of $5,943,S69 includes
increases amounting to 1881, los Tor
research work and $2,019, 500 for IRE
protection Of the national forests.
The principal increases and decreases
in amounts included in the estimates
for 1881 as compared with the avail
bflity for 1880 are as follows:
Is q decrease of $103, 440 for rent OF
buildings due to the probability Of the
Government acquiring title to buildings
now rented; an increase OF $1O,55O for
new positions and promotions, and $49,-
500 for reroofing both wings OF the
present department building and the
purchase OF automobiles.
For the Once Of Information there is
an increase Of 500, 900 for printing and
binding to enable the department to
print material which has accumulated
under increased appropriations for re-
search work and $4,000 for two addi-
tional editorial writer's.
For the library there is an increase
Of So, 900 for two additional employees.
For the once Of Experiment Stations
there Is an increase Of $4,000 for ad-
rninisterine acts making appropriation
for the use OF State agricultural expert
ynert stations $4,000 for extending the
acts to the Territory Of Hawaii, and
$4,000 for additional work at insular
experiment stations.
ONCE Of Extension Service.
For the once of Extension Service
there is an increase of $4,000 for ex-
tension work in Alaska pursuant to the
act of FEBRUARY %. 1929; $4,000 for
farm forestry to cooperate with addi-
tional States under the Clark-McNary
Act s55OO0 for cooperating marketing
specialists to meet the needs OF the
Federal Farm Board: and $4,000 for adj
ministration. These increases are OF =
set in part by the omission OF special
funds for extension work in flood RELIEF
for which S6l,6I5 was available in 1880.
For the Weather Bureau there is an
increase of $4,000 for improving the
general service and 100000 for fur
Yishing additional weather forecast
service to aviation.
For the Bureau of Animal Industry
there is an increase of &1l 400 for In
spection Of the Quarantine Service
$4,000 for tick eradication; SOS; 2lO LOT
investigations of the breeding, feedlng
and MANAGEMENT of domestic farm ami
mails: S74000 for poultry feeding and
breeding: &56.220 for Investigations OF
animal diseases; and $4,000 for meat
inspection. These increases are offset
in part by a decrease OF $17l 600 fol
the eradication of bovine tuberculosis
and Sl5.300 for the eradication OF
dourine in horses. both decreases being
due to progress which has been made
in eradication work.
For the Bureau Of Dairy Industry
there is an increase of $4,000 for in
vestigations in dairying and dairy hero
Improvement, Sl1 900 for the purchase
Of land near Beltsville, Md, and de-
crease Of 100000 due to the inclusion
in 1870 appropriations of funds for the
establishment of a dairy station a.
Lewisburg. Tenn, which now require:
funds for operation only.
Bureau of Plant Industry.
For the Bureau of Plant Industr!
there is an increase OF $19948 for foreS
pathology; $59,500 for cotton produc
ton and cotton diseases; $104 900 TO
research work in improving wheat anC
rice growing: $685. for further physica
improvements at the Cheyenne, Wyo.
dry-land agricultural station; Sl02 20!
fer horticultural Investigations; Sl8,80'
for the introduction Of foreign plants
and s2S.500 for miscellaneous items.
For the Forest Service there is al
increase OF Sl88.500 for prevention o
forest fires: 81 5000 for fire roads AM
trails; 1891 900 for forest fire protec
tive improvements; $4,000 for contro
of insects, rodents. and diseases affect
ing forests; 100000 for cooperation
with States and others in fire proven
ton and suppression in other than Gov
eminent forests, under the Clark-Mc
Nary Act; $238 900 for forest researcl
work under the McNary-M cSween
Act; Sll1 $50 for administration an
improvements Of the national forests
For expenditures under permanent an
indefinite appropriations for the ma
tional forests there are estimated in
creases of $270,Oo0 for payments
States OF the required percentage {
forest receipts, and $4,000 in pay
nents from funds. received from til
states and others for cooperative wor
in national forests and forests adiacer
thereto.
For the Bureau of Chemistry an
Soils there is. an increase OF 1894;
for chemical Investigations Of aNricu