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 FIFTYNINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. :2907. 1907. 1273 and twenty dollars; one carpenter, eight hundred and forty dollars; one photographer, one thousand dollars; one fireman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger,` seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred`and eighty dollars; one charwoman or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Sou. mvresrrearrousz General expenses, Bureau of Soils: Investi— §‘:§‘_;;“g§jj‘%{f°“b, gation of the relation of soils to e imate and organic life; for the wilsinvestigation of the texture and com ition of soils in the iield and laboratory; for the investigation of thiiscause 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; for investigations of soils and for indicating upon maps or plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investi ations; to map the tobacco soils T°b““°°‘ of the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of tobacco growth iu_ Cuba, Sumatra, and other tobacco-competing countries; to invesggate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, the meth s of curing, with particular reference to fermentation; to investigate, with the view of improving, the conditions relating to the supply and sale of domestic tobacco to any foreign country or coun- `tries where the business of buying and selling tobacco is conducted Rc t by the government; the location of the stations; rent of buildings not B ` to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, in the District of Colum- S i I ts t bia, for office and laboratory purposes; the employment of local and p°° ° °°°° '° °‘ mcial agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conucting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, igesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; the preparation and printing of reports, drawings, and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, gas, and electric current., furniture, and supplies; for telegraph and telephone service, and for traveling expenses, freight and express charges., and other necessary expenses, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Total for Bureau of Soils, two hundred and six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. · ` BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 0g‘;f"”""“‘E“""“°l' S.u.A1ur:s, BUREAU or Eurouonoovz One Entomologist, who shall ”‘"""""‘ be chief of Bureau. three thousand two hundred und fifty dollars: one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks class two, tive thousand six hundred dollars; one artist, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks class one, three thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks at one thousand dollars each. five thousand dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars: one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand two hundred and ten dollars. Exromonooican ixvrzsrmxrrousz General expenses. Bureau of }°,§’$§§‘}],§§§§§{’”‘ Entomology: Promotion of economic entomology: investigatin the history and habits of insects injurious and lieneiieial to agricufture, horticulture, and arhoriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects affecting tield crops: investigations of the insects affecting small fruit. shade trees, and truck crops. forests and forest products and stored products: investigation of insects in relation to diseases of men and domestic animals, and as animal parasites: miscellaneous insect investigations. including tobacco worms, tobacco insects in the dark tobacco district of Kentucky and Tennessee. the introduction of beneticial insects, quarantine work, and the study of