FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 707. 1890. 285 INVESTIGATING run Hisronr AND HABITS or- Iusncrs, Division mg{yi=*¤¤ <>f •>¤¤> OF ENTOMOLOGY: Promotion of economic entomolo ; investi at- gy' ing the history and habits of insects injurious andybeneficial to agriculture, ar oriculture, and horticulture; experiments in ascertaining the best means of destroying them; publishin reports thereon, and for illustrations, chemicals, traveling within the United States and other expenses in the (practical work of the division of entomology; twentéy-seven thousan nve hundred dollars: Provided, mmm. That two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for an investigation into the natural history of and remedies for the cotton-boll worm, for compensation Gotwn-hou worm. of ad itional temporary agents of the division of entomology, for traveling expenses, chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other necessary expenses in this investigation. S1Lx SECTION, Snmouurunnz To enable the Secretary of Agri- tu§_{¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤.¤¤ri¤¤1- culture to collect and disseminate information relating to silk cult- ' ure ; to purchase and distribute silk-worm eggs and mulberry trees; and con act at some point in the District of olumbia experiments with automatic machinery for reeling silk from the cocoon, and to pay expenses incurred in collecting, purchasing, preparing for transportation, and transporting the cocoons used in these experiments, and to pay the expenses of stations connected with said section, and necessary traveling expenses, twenty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to sell in open market 8*** an and all ree ed silk and silk waste produced in these experiments, and to apply the proceeds of such sales to the payment of the legitimate expenses incurred therein; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall make full report to Congress of the experiments herein pro- new-t. vided for, and also of all sales and purchases made under this paragraph, with the names and residences of all producers of cocoons of whom purchases are made. D1v1s1oN or ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY: For investigating Divi¤g>¤ of ¤r¤i¤h¤1- the geographic distribution of animals and plants, and for the pro- mm mmm"' motion of economic ornithology and mammalogy, and investigation of the food-habit of North American birds and mammals in re ation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for publishing reports thereon, and for illustrations, field-work, traveling. and other expenses in the practical work of the division, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars may be applied on account of expenses incurred during the fiscal year ending une thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. POMOLOGICAL INFORMATION: Division of pomology; Traveling mmm or pcm:- and other necessary exlpenses in investigating, collecting, and dis- °°' seminating pomologioa information, Eve thousand dollars. INVESTIGATION OF FOOD ADULTERATIONS, AND INVESTIGATIONS DMEM of I AND Exrmnmnms RELATING ro Tnxrimu Frames, D1v1s1oN or M1- mp;. cRosco1>Y:Microscopical apparatus, chemicals, photographic illustrations and drawings and other necessary supplies; traveling expenses; the purchase of food samples and con iments in the investigation of the adulteration of food; the purchase of textile fibers, and ascertaining their relative strength and forms, and for experiments in decorticating and cleansing bers, five thousand dollars. VEGETABLE PATHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS—- Divrsrox or Vne.n·rADLn PATHOLOGY: Investigating the nature of mason of vcemdiseases injurious to fruits, fruit—trees, grain, cotton, and other """‘“‘°“"’· useful plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; chemicals and apparatus required in the field and laboratoiiy; necessary travelin expenses; the preparation of drawings and 1 ustrations; and for other expenses connected with the practical work of the investiglag tion, fifteen thousand dollars; of which so much thereof as may directed by the Secretary may be applied to the investigation of