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 1272 F1F*rY-NIMH ooucnnss. Sess. II. ce. 2907. 1907. representative, either in person or b_y agent, concerning the suitability of such articles for food, or as to false labeling or branding; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the character _ of the chemical and physical tests which are applied to American ,hi;Z{’§§2°” b°i°r° food products in foreign countries, and to inspect before shipment, when desired by the shippers or owners of these food products, American food products intended for countries where chemical and physical tests are required before said food products are allowed to be sold_in the countries mentioned, and for all necessaryexpenses connected with sucl1 inspection and studies of methods of analysis in foreign countries. D°*‘*’P‘°"“°‘s· To investigate, in collaboration with the Bureau of Animal Industry, the chemistry of dairy products and of adulterants used therein, and of the adulterated products; to determine the composition of process, renovated, or adulterated and other treated butters, and other chemical studies relating to dairy products, and to make all analyses of samples requ1red for the execution of the law regulatm the manucQ,"Q}§f‘ *‘"d °“‘°" facture of process, renovated, or adulterated butters. Io study, in, collaboration with the Weather Bureau, the Bureau of Plant Industry, and agricultural experiment stations, the influence of environment upon the chemical composition of wheat and other cereals, with especia reference to the variation in the content of gluten, and the ,,§,‘g€,‘g§Dg“;§,u@,t“’°h suitability of barley for brewing and other purposes. To investigate the chemical composition of sugar and starch-producing plants in the United States and its possessions, aud, in collaboration with the Weather Bureau, the Buregu if Plant Industry, and agricultural . . experiment stations, to stu y the effects of environment u n the P°"’f°°d °’"°°°` chemical composition of sugar and starch-producing plants. Plqor all A,,,,_,,_,6,,_ expenses necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of Congress of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for other pm es," including rent and the employment of labor in the city of lvlidhington and elsewhere; Mum Ohbwm employing such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary ' of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named; and the employees of the Bureau of Chemistry outsule the citv of \Vashington may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agricultiire, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leaves of absence not to excee lifteen days in any one vear, which leave may. in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteeri Report 0, my to days additional in any one year, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Sm¤<>m<»m¤¤,e¤¤. Provided, That any sum used for compensation of or pavment of expenses to any officer or other person employed by any State. county, or municipal government, shall be re rted to Congress in detail, on the tirst Monday of March, nineteen lidndred and eight. Total for Bureau ot Chemistry, six hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Bureau of Soils, -  Ofs SOILS· of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars: one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks, class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, class three, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks, class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks class one, seven thousand two hundred dollars: one draftsman, onelthousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred
 * ¤*¤¤¤¤· Snmmms, BUREAU or Sons: One Soil Phvsicist, who shall be chief