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952 for the purpose named; preparing, illustrating, and publishing reports

and exhibiting the results of such investigations, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue an investigation relative to the various typical soils of the United States to determine their chemical characteristics, and especially the nature of the nitrifying organisms contained therein; the preparation of reports thereon; apparatus and materials required in conducting such investigations; employment of the necessary investigators; freight and express charges and necessary traveling expenses, ten thousand dollars; in all, for Division of Chemistry, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars.

Forestry invstigations, Division of Forestry : To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on the subject of forestry, forest fires, and lumbering; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to collect and distribute valuable economic forest-tree seeds and plants; and for traveling and other necessary expenses, forty thousand dollars.

Experimental Gardens and Grounds, Department of Agricultural, Division or Gardens and Grounds: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of the lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employment of foremen, gardeners, laborers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics; machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, plows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, watering cans, tubs, pots, and other implements required in cultivation; lumber, hardware, glass, paints, tin, stone, gravel, and other material required for repairs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blacksmithing, horseshoeing, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagating purposes; labels, potting, and packing materials, feed for horses, freight and express charges, and for repairing roadways and walks, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

Soil investigations, Division of Soils; Investigation of the relation of soils to climate and organic life; for the investigation of the texture and composition of soils in the field and laboratory; for the investigation of the cause and prevention of the rise of alkali in the soils of the irrigated districts; the investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters, and of methods for the prevention of the accumulation of and injury from seepage waters in irrigated districts; the location of the stations, and the rent of a building, not to exceed six hundred and sixty dollars per annum, for office and laboratory purposes; the employment of local and special agents and other labor required in conducting experiments; the preparation of drawings and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus gas and supplies, and for traveling expenses, freight and express charges, ten thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to map the tobacco Soils of in the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of growth in Cuba, Sumatra, and other competing countries; to investigate the methods of curing, with particular reference to fermentation to originate, through selection and breeding, improved varieties tor, the principal tobacco districts of the United States; and to secure as far as may be, a change in the methods of supplying tobacco to foreign countries, ten thousand dollars; in all, for the Division of Soilsb twenty thousand dollars.

Grass and Forage-Plant Investigations, Division of Agrostology: For employment of local and special agents and assistants; collection of seeds, roots. and specimens for experimental cultivation and distribution; materials, tools, apparatus supplies and labor required in conducting experiments; freight and express charges and traveling expenses; the preparation of drawings and illustrations for special reports, and the preparation of illustrated circulars of informa-