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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 280-JUNE 29, 1949 49 Stat. 653 . Peanut statistics. 49 Stat. 1898; 52 Stat. 348. Cotton and apple reports. Chief of Bureau at $10,330 per annum, and not to exceed $1,000 for the purchase 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, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in produc- tion to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, $2,000,000: 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 main- tenance of regional offices. 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 numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, produc- tion, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and rosin pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S . C . 556b), 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), $2,646,900: 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, or for estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop. OFFICE OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL RELATIONS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses for the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate activities of the Department in connection with foreign agricultural work, including personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $500 for newspapers, $576,400. EXTENSION SERVICE PAYMENTS TO STATES, HAWAII, ALASKA, AND PUERTO RICO Cooperative agri- For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, for cultural extension work. cooperative agricultural extension work as follows: Capper-Ketcham, Bankhead-Jones, and related Acts: Capper- 45 Stat. 711. Ketcham Act, the Act approved May 22, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 343a, 343b), $1,480,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, section 21, title II, of the Act 49 Stat. 438. approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S . C. 343c), $12,000,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, section 23, title II, of the Act approved June 29, 1935, as amended 59 Stat. 231. by the Act of June 6, 1945 (7 U. S . C . 343d-1), $12,500,000; additional extension work, the Act approved April 24,1939, as amended (7 U. S . C . 53 Stat.589. 343c-1), $555,000; Alaska, the Act approved February 23, 1929 (7 45 Stat. 1256. U. S. C. 386c), extending the benefits of the Smith-Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska, $13,950, and section 3 of the Act approved June 20, Post, p. 940. 1936 (7 U. S . C . 343e), extending the benefits of the Capper-Ketcham stat Act to the Territory of Alaska, $10,000; Puerto Rico, the Act approved 50Stat.881. August 28, 1937 (7 U. S . C. 343f-343g), extending the benefits of [63 STAT.

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