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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 421-JUNE 25, 1940 Soil chemical and physical investigations: For chemical, physical, and physical-chemical investigations of soil types soil composition, and soil minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil, and all chemical and physical properties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture, erosibility, and soil productivity, $70,000. Soil-fertility investigations: For soil investigations into causes of infertility; maintenance of productivity; effects of soil composition, cultural methods, and fertilizers on yield and quality of crops; and the properties, composition, formation, and transformation of soil organic matter, $121,622. Soil microbiology investigations: For investigations of the micro- organisms of the soil and their activities, including the testing of samples procured in the open market, of cultures for inoculating legumes, other crops, or soil, and the publication of results, and if any such samples are found to be impure, nonviable, or misbranded, the results of the tests may be published, together with the names of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for sale, $39,854. Soil survey: For the investigation of soils and their origin, for survey of the extent of classes and types, and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investi- gations and surveys, $275,000. Sugar-plant investigations: For sugar-plant investigations, includ- ing studies of diseases and the improvement of sugar beets and sugar- beet seed, $315,000. Tobacco investigations: For the investigation and improvement of tobacco and the methods of tobacco production and handling, $140,544. Total, salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $5,171,455, of which amount not to exceed $1,655,147 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $12,520 shall be available for the purchase of motor-pro- pelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. FOREST SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the tree- less regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water-supply or sanitary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be erected, shall not exceed $7,500, with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $7,500 or more, may be improved out of the appropriations made under this Act for the Forest Service by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the cost of such building 545 Soil chemical, etc., investigations. Soil-fertility inves- tigations. Boil-microbiology investigations. Publication of results. Soil survey. Sugar-plant investi- gations. Tobacco investiga- tions. Total; personalserv- ices. Vehicles. Experiments and Investigations on for- estry, etc. Restriction. Prorisos. Limitation on cost of buildings; excep- tion. 193470°-41-PT. I -- -35

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