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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 421-JUNE 25, 1940 AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere as may be necessary in conducting inves- tigations, experiments, and demonstrations, either independently or in cooperation with public or private agencies, organizations, or individuals, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia, $157,306. Marketing farm products: For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information relative to the standardization, classification, grading, preparation for market, handling, and marketing of farm and food products, including the demonstration and promotion of the use of uniform standards of classification of American farm and food products throughout the world, $400,000: Provided, That samples, illustrations, practical forms, or sets of the grades recommended or promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm or food products 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, abstract- ing, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relat- ing to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, State, and local agencies, and for the collection and publication of statistics of peanuts as provided by the Act approved June 24, 1936, as amended May 12, 1938 (7 U. S . C . 951-957), $725,000: 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: Provided further, That estimates of apple production shall be confined to the commercial crop. Market inspection of farm products: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organi- zations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other associations of businessmen or trade organizations, and persons or corporations engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribu- tion of farm and food products, whether operating in one or more jurisdictions, to investigate and certify to shippers and other inter- ested parties the class, quality, and condition of cotton, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables, whether raw, dried, or canned, poultry, butter, hay, and other perishable farm products when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost for the service rendered: Provided,That certificates issued by the authorized agents of the Department shall be received in all courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained, $459,000. Salaries and ex- penses. Administrative ex- penses. Marketing farm products. Pro.iso Sale of samples, etc. Crop and livestock estimates. Peanut statistics. 49 Stat. 189; 62 Stat. 48 . 7U. .O., Supp.V, 9i95l-967. Provumi. Cotton acreage. Apple production. Market inspection of farm products. Certifilateslsprma facie evidence.

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