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 1].52 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 1008. 1903. d,f:{;Ff"“ °‘“'““"‘ BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. S“‘“"‘“· BUREAU or PLANT INDUSTRY, sALAR1Es: One plant physiologist and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, four thousan dollars; one pgntdp iysiologist and pathologist, two thousand seven hundred and y ol ars; one botanist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one pomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one agrostologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant pomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant agrostologist, one thousand eigilit undred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one cler class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks class two, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand _ six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. $°,Q§,'§{,§"°,f,‘,,'§'·,g_ GENERAL Ex1·ENsEs, BUREAU or PLANT 1NDUsTRr; VEGETABLE ¤¤=-. ii:i¤¤¤s¤- PATHOIDGICAL AND 1·Rrs1oLoe1oAL INVESTIGATIONS2 Investigating the ‘ nature of diseases in`urious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, vegetable, and other usefull plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; _ the study of plant physiology in relation to crop production and the improvement of crops by breeding and selection; to investigate the diseases aifecting citrus fruits, pineapples, and truck crops grown during the winter in the Southern States; to investigate canaigre and other tannimbearinglplants; to investigate and report upon the seases affecting plants on the Pacific coast; to originate or introduce improved varieties of fruits and vegetables in cooperation with the section of seed and plant introduction; to study the re ation of soil and climatic conditions to diseases of plants, particularly with reference to the California vine diseases and diseases of the sugar beet, in cooperation with the Bureau of Soils, and for other purposes connected with the discovery and practical application of improved methods of crop production; to continue the work of originating, by breeding an selection, in cooperation with the other divisions of the Department and the experiment stations, new varieties of oranges, lemons, and other tropica and subtropical fruits more resistant to cold and disease and of better quality; varieties of wheat and other cereals more resistant to rust and smut and better suited to the various sections of this country; ‘ varieties of cotton more resistant to disease and of longer and better staple, and varieties of pears and apples more resistant to blight and better adapted for export; to investigate the causes of decay in forest timber an timber used for construction purposes, and,to devise means for preventing the decay of the same; to investigpte the practical application in agriculture of the fixation of atmosp eric nitrogen by bacteria and other micro-organisms in soils and in the root tubercles of leguminous and other plants; to cultivate and distribute these nitrogen Iixers and to determine the conditions most favorable to their development; to study and find methods for preventing the algal and other contaminations of water sup lies; the employment of investi tors, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and student scientidb aids at an annua salary of four hundred and eighty dollars each, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of lVashington and elsewhere, and collating, digesting, re rting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for telegrapggnd telephone service; for gas and electric current; purchase of chemicals and apparatus required