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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 555. 1900. 197 ucts in foreign countries, and to inspect before shipment, when desired by the shippers or owners of these food roducts, American food products intended for countries where chemicaland physical tests are required before said food products are allowed to be sold in the countries mentioned; and for all necessary expenses connected with such inspection • and studies of methods of analysis in said foreign countries; for the preparation of reports, the purchase of apparatus, chemicals, samples, and supplies required in conducting such investigations; the employment of loca and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting such experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for freight and express char es, and for traveling and other necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, for the division of chemistry, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, two. thousanddollars of which shall be immediately available. . Fonnsrmr INVESTIGATIONSZ To enable the Secretary of Agriculture dFg;¤¢¤¢¤v i¤v¢¤¤s¤- to experiment and to make and. continue investigations and report on ° ` the subjects of forestry, forest fires, and lumbering; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to seek, thro h investigations and the planting of native and foreign s. ies, suitaulis trees for the treeless regions; to collect and distribute valiifble economic forest tree seeds and plants; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other abor required in conducting experiments, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for the purchase of all necessary supplies and a paratus, for freight and express charges, and travelin expenses, eigrhty thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed five thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be used to investigate the forest conditions in the southern A. palachian mountain region of western North Carolina and adjacent States. x · EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS AND GROLINDS, DEPARTMENT or AGRI- dE¤v¤rgm¢¤t¤1dSsaroULTUEE: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, °°°°° mm ' including the keep of the lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; manage- I ment 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, lants, and bulbs for propagating purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, freight and express charges, repétigiriig roadways and walks, and for electric lightin, twent thousan o — ars. , ‘ gé0IL INiirEsT1eAT1oNs: Investigation of the relation of soils to climate S<>i1i¤v¢¤tig&tic¤s. 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; to map the tobacco soils of 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 an breeding, improved varieties of the _principal tobacco istricts of the United States, and to secure, as far as may be, a change in the methods of supplying tobacco to foreign countries; the location of the stations. and the rent of a building, not to exceed six hundred ands sixty dollars per annum, for office and