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 1154 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1008. 1903. illustrating the result of such experiments; subscriptions to and purchase of botanical publications for use in the division; and the reparation, illustration, and publication of reports; to investigate and) publish reports upon the useful plants and plant cultures of the tropical territory of the United States, and to investigate, report upon, and introduce other plants promising to be valuable for the tropical territory of the United States, such plants and botanical and agricultural information when secured to be made available for the work of agricultural experiment stations and schools; to investigate the varieties of cereals grown in the United States or suitable for introduction, in order to standardize the naming of varieties as a basis for the experimental work of the State experiment stations, and as an assistance in commercial grading, and to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, the cause of deterioration of export grain, particularly in oceanic transit, and devise means of preventing losses from those causes, sixty-five thousand dollars. lguqeugeggggggzgs Gmss AND Former-PLANT 1NvEsT1cAT1oNs: To enable the Secretary Pof Agriculture to conduct investigations of grasses, forage plants, and animal foods in cooperation with other divisions of the Department; to collect and pure ase seeds, roots, and specimens of valuable economic grasses and forage plants for investigation; experimental cultivation and distribution, and for experiments and reports u on the best methods of extirpating Johnson and other noxious and destructive grasses; to purchase tools, all necessary office fixtures, materials, apparatus, and supplies; to pay freight, express charges, and traveling expenses; for telegraph and telephone service; for gas and electric currents; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and scientific student aids at an annual salary of four hundred and eighty dollars each, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washin ton and elsewhere; rent and repairs of a building not to exceed one tgousand two hundred dollars per annum; to prepare drawings and illustrations for circulars, reports, and bulletins; and the agricultural ex eriment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in establishing and maintaining experimental grass stations. for determining the best methods of caring for and improving meadows and grazing lands, the use of different grasses and forage plants, and their adaptability to various soils and climates, the best native and foreign species for reclaiming overstockcd ranges and pastures, for renovating wornout lands, for binding drifting sands and washed lands, and for turfing lawns and pleasure. grounds, and for solving the various forage problems resented in the several sections of our country, thirty-five thousand dollars. deE§g;'é¤é$g;*yd_8¤*· EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS AND GROUNDS, DEPARTMENT or AGRICUL- ` “TURB: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employment of assistants, experts, foremen, gardeners, laborers, ca nters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics, in the city of Washington or elsewhere; machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, lows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, wateringlcans, tubs, pots, and officr implements required in cultivation; lumber, ardware, glass, paints, tin, stones., gravel, and other material required for re airs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blacksmithin ,Ihorseshoeing, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagatin purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, fuel, freight and express charges, repairing roadways and walks, traveling andg other necessary expenses, and for electric lighting, fol' telegraph and telephone services,