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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 shall be expended for the removal and destruction of trees infected with the Dutch elm disease except where such trees are located on property owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, or on property included within local experimental control areas: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Phony peach and peach mosaic eradication: For determining and applying such methods of eradication, control, and prevention of spread of the diseases of peach trees known as "phony peach" and "peach mosaic" as in the judgment of the Secretary may be necessary, including cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organiza- tions of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accom- plish such purposes, including the certification of products out of the infested areas to meet the requirements of State quarantines, $99,340: Provided,That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Forest insects: For insects affecting forests and forest products, under section 4 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (16 U. S. C. 581c), entitled "An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects", and for insects affecting ornamental trees and shrubs, $202,000. Truck crop and garden insects: For insects affecting truck crops, ornamental and garden plants, including tobacco, sugar beets, and greenhouse and bulbous crops, $326,340. Cereal and forage insects: For insects affecting cereal and forage crops, including sugarcane and rice, and including research on the European corn borer, $403,370. Barberry eradication: For the eradication of the common barberry and for applying such other methods of eradication, control, and prevention of spread of cereal rusts as in the judgment of the Secre- tary may be necessary to accomplish such purposes, $283,470: Pro- vided, That, in the discretion of the Secretary, no expenditures from this appropriation shall be made for these purposes until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropri- ated, subscribed, or contributed by States, counties, or local authori- ties, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment of such purposes: Provided further, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed. Cotton insects: For insects affecting cotton, $163,730. Pink bollworm and Thurberia weevil control: For the control and prevention of spread of the Thurberia weevil and the pink bollworm, including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be necessary to stamp out any infestation, and for necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Gov- ernment or local Mexican authorities, $738,960. Bee culture: For bee culture, apiary management, and the propa- gation and distribution by sale of surplus bee-breeding stock, $91,950: Provided, That the rates at which such sales are made shall be fixed by regulations of the Secretary and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Insects affecting man and animals: For insects affecting man, household possessions, and animals, $175,000. 439 Cost or value of injured property. Post, p. 862. 45 Stat. 701. State, etc., coopera- tion. Cooperation with Mexico.

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