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 S EVE NTY -FI RST C ONGRESS. SESS. III. CH. 278 . 1931 . 1267 For inve stigat ions, exper iment s, an d demo nstra tions invol ving the Investigations. etep a pplic ation of en ginee ring princi ples to agr icult ure, indepe ndent ly or in cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other public agen- cies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals ; for inves- tigating and reporting upon the utilization of water in farm irrigation and the best methods to apply in practice, the different kinds of power and appliances, the flow of water in ditches, pipes, and other conduits, the duty, apportionment, and measurement of irrigation water, the customs, regulations, and laws affecting irri- gation, and the drainage of farms and of swamps and other wet lands which may be made available for agricultural purposes ; for pr eparing plans for the removal of surplus water by drainage ; for developing equipment for farm irrigation and drainage ; for inves- tigating and reporting upon farm domestic water supply and drain- ag e disposal, upon the design and construction of farm buildings a nd th eir a ppurte nance s and of bu ildin gs for proc essin g and stori ng f arm produ cts, upon farm powe r and mech anical far m equipme nt, upon the engineering problems relating to the processing, transpor- tation, and storage of perishable and other agricultural products, and upon the engineering problems involved in adapting physical characteristics of farm land to the use of modern farm machinery for investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April .iic, p. 258. 19, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 248) ; for gi ving expert advi ce an d assi stanc e in agricultural engineering ; for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of investigations and preparing, publishing, and dis- tributing bulletins, plans, and reports ; and for other necessary ex penses, incl uding trave l, rent, re pairs, and not to exce ed $5,000 f or the construction of buildings, $553,840. Total, Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, $583,840, of which services in the Dis- amount not to exceed $139,230 may be expended for personal services trict. in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SAL ARIES AND GENE RAL E XPENS ES Agri cultu ral Eco. nomics Bureau . General expenses. For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Wash- bor , etces, supplies, la- For and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations, as follows For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes Chief of Bureau, and f ofuie personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $290,030. Farm management and To inve stigat e and enco urage the Farm managemen t pr actice : and practice. adoption of improved methods of farm management and farm prac- PTerise. tice, $480,760 : Provided, That of this amount $150,000 may be used in Co st of producing ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural stap les. products. Dis tri but ing ac- Marketing and distributing farm products : For acquiring and quired i nform ation of diffusing among the people of the United States useful information, farm products, market- on subjects connected with the marketing, handling, utilization, mg' etc' grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and nonmanu- f acture d foo d prod ucts and t he pur chasi ng of farm suppl ies, i nclud - ing the demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform Promotion of class !- standards of classification of American farm products throughout fled standards . the world, including scientific and technical research into American- grown cotton and its by-products and their present and potential uc l ottoa n by-prod. uses; including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for

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