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 FIF‘l`Y-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II._ Ch. 805. 1901. 93] and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for fI‘€1gl1h and express charges, and for traveling and other necessary expenses, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum two thousand five hundred dollars may be used for the rent of a laboratory building. Total for Bureau of Chemistry, thirty-five thousand eight hundred dollars, of which Eve thousand dollars shall be immediately available. ’ BUREAU OF SOILS. Buruuu ufuuiu BUREAU or So1Ls, sALAR1Es: One soil physicist who shall be Chief c,§§]QQf§§_ °‘ chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one scientist, two thousand tive hundred dollars; one scientist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one scientist, one thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one stenogra her, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks of class one, three thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one watchman seven hundred and twenty dollars; one charwoman, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU or SorLs: Investigation of the relation S°“ i¤V°S“g¤¤°¤· of soils to climate and organic life; for the investigation of the_texture and com osition 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 see age waters, in irrigated districts; for investigations of soils in the United States and for indicating upon maps or plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations; to map the tobacco soils of the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of tobacco growth in Cuba, Sumatra, and other tobacco competing countries; to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, the methods of curing, with particular reference to fermentation; to originate, through selection and breeding, improved varieties for 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; the location of the stations; rent of uildings, not to exceed one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, for office and laboratory purposes; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, an other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; the preparation of drawings and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, gas and electric current, supplies, and for traveling expenses, freight and express charges; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue and extend the survey and investigations of agricultural lands as hereinbefore provided, and for all necessary expenses connected with the survey; preparation and printing of reports and illustrations; employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in collecting, collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such surveys; freight and express charges, and for traveling and other necessary expenses, ninety-one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available. Total for Bureau of Soils, one hundred and nine thousand one hundred and forty dollars. . DIVISION or ENTOMOLOGY, sALAR1Es: One entomologist, who shall mggégmu of EIM be chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant saiaiies or chief. entomologist, who shall be assistant chief of division, one thousand °1"kS’°t°‘ eight hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one