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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 373. 1889. 837 experiments with grasses and forage plants, including the establishment and maintenance of experimental grass stations, and of other economic and medicinal plants, and for traveling and other necessary expenses connected therewith; and for employing local botanists for exploration and collection of plants in little known districts, and for special work for the improvement of the herbarium and for artists for drawing and engraving, twenty thousand dollars. And the un- Reappmpnauou. expended balance of appropriations under this head for the current fiscal year is hereb reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundlred and ninety. Section of vegetable pathology; For investigating the nature of V°€°*¤bl°P¤th°l°8Y- the diseases of fruits and fruit-trees, grain, and other useful plants, due to parasitic fungi; for chemicals and apparatus required in the field and laboratory; for experiments with remedies; for necessary traveling expenses; for the preparation of drawings and illustra· ` tions, and for other expenses connected with the practical work of , the investigation, fifteen thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be a plied to the investigationof the disease in peach trees known as yellows and remedies therefor. Pomological information.—Pomological Division: For traveling P°¤¤<>i¤gi¢¤ldi*iS*°¤~ within the United States and other necessary expenses in investigating, collecting, and disseminating pomological information, four thousand dollars. C _ Investigating the adulteration of food.——Microscopical Division: _ Microscopicul divis For microscopical apparatus, chemicals, hotographic illustrations, '°°‘ and other necessary supplies; for traveling expenses, and for the purchase of food samples and fibers in making investigations and examinations into the adulterations of food, one thousand dollars. Laboratory.—Chemical Division: For chemical ap aratus, chem- Chemical division. icals, laboratory fixtures and supplies, purchase oip samples, and necessary expenses in conducting special investigations, including necessary traveling ex enses, labor, and expert work in such investigations, six thousandpdollars. Chemical Division: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to ex- Examination or tend and continue the investigation of the adulteration of food, drugs, {{,35 "“’·* “d“l°°"“‘ and liquors, including the purchase of samples, transportation, traveling expenses, stationery, return postage, printing and illustrating, analyzing, investigating, and examining samples p)urchased on the open market, the sum of five thousand dollars, to e made immedi- . ately available; and for these purposes the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary: Provided, That the Secretary is ierebv re- Pmviso. quired to make a se arate report to Congress as to when and where Semmte ,,.p.,m,_ the samples of food, liquors, and drugs were purchased, when and where analyzed, and the result of such analysis, together with the name of the manufacturer and the brand or label 011 the package or article. Investigating the history and habits of insects.——Entomological _ Euwmclcgicaidins Division; For the iromotion of economic entomology, investigating `°"' the history and habits of insects injurious and be11eficial to agriculture, arborculture, and horticulture; experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them, and preventives to the biting of domestic animals by oisonous insects and remedies and antidotes for such bites; for iulblishing reports thereon; and for illustrations, chemicals, (traveling within the United States, and other expenses · in the practical work of the entomological division, twenty thousand dollars. For collecting and disseminating information relating to silk-cnlb Silk culwm ure; for purchasing and distributing silk-worm eggs, and for conducting at some point in the Districtof Columbia experiments with automatic machinery for reeling silk from the cocoon, and for