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 52 STAT.I 75TH CONG., 3D SESS. -CH. 464-JUNE 16, 1938 General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including the salary of Chief of Bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $236,306. Farm management and practice: To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methods of farm management and farm prac- tice, and for ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural products, $346,580. Marketing and distributing farm products: For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with the marketing, handling, utilization, grad- ing, transportation, and distributing of farm and nonmanufactured food products and the purchasing of farm supplies, including the demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform standards of classification of American farm products throughout the world, including scientific and technical research into American-grown cot- ton and its byproducts and their present and potential uses, including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for cotton and its byproducts, and including investigations of cotton ginning under the Act approved April 19, 1930 (7 U. S . C. 424, 425), and for collecting and disseminating information on the adjustment of production to probable demand for the different farm and animal products, inde- pendently and in cooperation with other branches of the Department, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transporta- tion, and distributing of farm and food products, and for investiga- tion of the economic costs of retail marketing of meat and meat products, $823,650, of which $35,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That practical forms of the grades recommended or pro- mulgated by the Secretary for wool and mohair may be sold under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and the receipts therefrom deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and num- bers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, State, and local agencies, $671,289: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intention of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton. Foreign competition and demand: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the agriculture of the United States by expand- ing in the foreign field the service now rendered by the United States Department of Agriculture in acquiring and diffusing useful infor- mation regarding agriculture, and for other purposes", approved June 5, 1930 (7 U. S . C . 541-545), and for collecting and dissem- inating to American producers, importers, exporters, and other inter- ested persons information relative to the world supply of and need for American agricultural products, marketing methods, conditions, prices, and other factors, a knowledge of which is necessary to the advantageous disposition of such products in foreign countries, inde- pendently and in cooperation with other branches of the Govern- ment, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, including the purchase of such books and periodicals and not to exceed $1,000 for newspapers as may be necessary in connection with this work, $295,000. 739 General administia- tive expenses. Farm management and practice. Marketing and dis- tributing farm prod- ucts. Promotion of ,ni- form standards. Cotton and byprod- ucts research. 48 Stat. 248 . 7U. .. §§ 424,425. Prorvso. Sale of formsof wool and mohair grades. Crop and livestoek estimate Proviso. Restriction on ex- pendlture. Foreign competition and demand. 46 Stat. 497. 7U.S. C. §541-54 Dissemination of in- rormation toAmerican producers, ote.

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