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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 543 -JUNE 19, 1948 at the field printing plants of the Forest Service authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919 (44 U. S . C. 111, 220); and including not to exceed $207,000 for printing and binding not less than two hundred thirty thousand eight hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secre- tary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture), as authorized by section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C . 241) : Provided, That the Secretary may transfer to this appropriation from the appropria- tion made for "Conservation and Use of Agricultural Land Resources" such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S . C . 1281-1407), from funds appropriated to carry into effect the purposes of the National School Lunch Act approved June 4, 1946 (Public Law 396), such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with the activities under said Act, and from funds appropriated to carry into effect the terms of section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U. S. C . 612c), as amended, such sums as may be necessary for printing and binding in connection with the activities under section 32: Provided further, That the total amount that may be transferred under the authority granted in the preceding proviso shall not exceed $145,000. LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For necessary expenses, including exchange of reference books, law- books, technical and scientific books, periodicals, and expenses in- curred in completing imperfect series; not to exceed $1,200 for news- papers; dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library mem- bership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members; $600,000, of which not to exceed $484,924 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,243,400 for per- sonal services in the District of Columbia, including the salary of Chief of Bureau at $10,000 per annum, and not to exceed $1,000 for the pur- chase of books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers, as follows: Economic investigations: For conducting investigations and for acquiring and diffusing useful information among the people of the United States, relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food products, pur- chasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in production to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land own- ership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agri- culture, including causes for their variations and trends, $1,988,500: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated or made available to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics under the heading "Economic investigations" shall be used for State and county land- use planning, for conducting cultural surveys, or for the maintenance of regional offices. 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 511 40 Stat. 1270. Yearbook of Agri- culture. 28 Stat. 612. Transfer of funds. Post, p. 525. 52 Stat. 31 . 7U.S.C., Supp.I, § 1334 et seq. Post, p. 1250. 60 Stat. 230 . 42U.S.C.§§1751- 1760; Supp. I, § 1752 note. 49 Stat. 774. 7U.S.C., Supp.I, 612e note. Post, p. 1257.

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