FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 214. 1893. 737 To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make inquiries in regard _1¤>ed·¤¤¤ki¤z i¤v<>¤- to the systems of road management throughout the United States, to °1g“°'°"' make investigations in regard to the best method of road-making, to prepare publications on this subject suitable for distribution, and to enable him to assist the agricultural college and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject, ten thousand dollars. mqenm oflnvesti COLLECTING AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, DIVISION OF STATISTICS: ¥"{§,‘?g§;j,f°·°,. mm Collecting domestic and `foreign agricultural statistics, expenses of Mslocal investigations and compilations, and necessary traveling expenses; statistical publications furnishing data for permanent comparative records; compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports, and the necessary expenses of the same, including paper and envelopes, postal cards, and postage stamps, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That fifteen thou- 1>··m».». sand dollars of this sum, or so mueh thereof as may be necessary, may °'°’ '“'*‘“· be expended for the preparation and printing of maps and charts illustrating the progre s of rural production and crop distribution of the United States, and for special investigation of the agricultural ruvmupuqunmky statistics of the States and Territories of the Rocky Mountain region, M°“"“““‘ "g‘°“· with traveling and other necessary expenses connected therewith: Amt provided further, That the monthly crop report issued on the tenth day M¤¤¤·}y mp rvwqr of each month shall embrace only a statement of the condition of the *{§’0K°,}}*§,‘,§'p'§'{,',YS°,‘Q“tg‘§; crops by States and in the United States, with such explanations and M- comparisons with other months and years 2, may be useful for illustzrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture, who shall ohicially approve the report before it is Appmu nt mmm issued or published. BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND Exmamummms, DIVISION on 1>M¤i¤¤ <•f ¤¤¤·¤y· BOTANY: Purchasing specimens, paper, and all necessary materials for the herbarium and for labor in preparing the same, and for investigations aud experiments with grasses and forage plants, including the establishment and maintenance of experimental grass stations and of other economic and medicinal plants, including cost of reports and illustrations thereof, and for traveling and other necessary expenses connected therewith and for employing local botanists in the iield for exploration and collection of plants in littleknown districts, thirty thousand dollars, of which the sum of two thousand dollars shall be Kmmcdintoly nvnilw immediately available. m°‘ INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY AND HABITS OF INSETCS, Division ffivi¤i•>¤ <>f ¤¤¢~— OF ENTOMOLOGYZ Promotion of economic entomology, investigating '"° °‘”' the history and habits of insects injurious and benehuial to agriculture, aborieulture, and horticulture, by inspection and experiments in nurseries and orchards when necessary, experiments in 34S(!C1'lTllllllll;.f the best means of destroying them; publishing reports thereon, and for illustrations, chemicals, amlother expenses in the practical work of the division of eutomology, twenty thousand three hundred dollars: l’r0rideel, Tlmt Pmvianb H two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be nee- °°°‘°°` ° '°"“' essary, may be expended for an investigation into the natural history of and remedies lor the cottonboll worm; thr the compensation of additional temporary agents of the division of entomology; for traveling expenses, chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and othe necessary expenses m this investigation. INVEsTmA·r10N m ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY, Divrsron OF thIfi~·i•i¤¤d ¤f M3- OBNITHOLOGY Ann MAmMALoeY: For investigating the geographic .,g'}_°"” °" ""‘"“” ` distribution of animals and plants, and tbr the promotion of economic Ofuitlnology and mammalogy, and investigation of the food habit of North American birds and mammals in relation to agrieulture, horticulture, and forestry; for publishing reports thereon, and for illustratwns, field work, traveling, and other expenses in the practical work of the division, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. VOL Jc.*cv11—-#17
