SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 266. 1924. 437 For investigations, observations, and re forecasts, warnin I"<>¤*=¤$*—*· W*¤‘¤i¤¤· and advices for the protection of horticultigalltiiiterests, $20,000; gs, m` For official traveling ex enses, $28,000; Tfevsling GMM- For the maintenance oi) stations, for observing, measuring, and A°'°‘°¤i°°‘“°“°°S· investigating atmospheric plhenomena, including salaries, and other expenses in the city of Was ington and elsewhere, $88,800; In all, general expenses, $1,630,035. Total, Weather Bureau, $2,025,035. BUREAU or ANIMAL INDUSTRY. ,,,,·§,z§*¤··*I¤°¤**¤”·* sALAnms. For chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of ,,§,[?" '“"‘ °“°° *"" Columbia in accordance with the Classihcation Act of 1923 and for personal services in the field, $670,000. ommnn. nxrnissm, BUREAU or ANIMAL INDUSTRY. rm °“°°m°°' For carrying out the provisions of the Act a proved May 29, 1884, V°" 2** "‘ at establishing a Bureau o Animal Industry, and the provisions of the V°’· ”°·P·8*’3· Act approved March 3, 1891, providing for the sa e transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign V0, mp 4,, countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August 30, ` ` 1890¥providing for the importation of animals into the Unite States, vc, 3,,, m_ and or other purposes; and the provisions of the Act of May 9, 1902, extending the inspection of meats to process butter, and providing for the inspection of factories, markigg of packages, and so forth; V_,,_3,_p_.,,,_ and the provisions of the Act approv February 2, 1903, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more eifectually suppress and prevent the spread of conta `ous and infectious diseases o ivestock, and for VI w Im other purposes; and" also the provisions of the Act approved March eggs., Z,H§,m¤im, 3, 1905, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to esta ish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of V1 3, M cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for ·p$.-Qmggigig im. carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1906, entitled “.A.11 ““'· Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of trans ortation "; and for carrying out the provisions V0, ,, ,,_,,,_ of the Act approvedgdarch 4, 1913, regulating the preparation, sale, A¤i¤¤l **f¤¤¤•·•*¤· barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous products manufactured in the United States, and the importation of such roducts intended for use in the treatment of domestic comm and db animals; andp to enable the Secretary of A `culture to collect and mnmang ummdisseminate information concerning livestoci? dairy, and other ani- “°“·°‘°‘ mal products; to repare and disseminate reports on animal indus— try; to employ and) pay from the appropriation herein made as many my °'°“"’1°"°°°‘ persons in the citiy of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to pure ase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, ’°"“”" serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests in such manner ,,mhm_ dgmw as he may deem best; to purchase and destro diseased or exposed ani- Hop. etc-. df disused mals or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to °mm°b' prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: I ’ . md _ For inspection and quarantine work, includin all necessary ex- ¤¤¤§)?¤i°£ qw penses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and; cattle, the inslpection of southern cattle, the supervision of the tra rtation of vestock, and the inspection of vessels, the execution oi the twenty-eight hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, m-
