VETERINARY MEDICINE. Stock-poisoning plants of the range, Marsh... Oak poisoning of live stock, Marsh, Clawson, and Marsh. Iodin and some of the newer iodin preparations, Milks.. Regulation of biologic products by Bureau of Animal Industry, Mohler et al. Distribution of Gaertner group bacilli in domestic and other animals, Savage.. Observations on bird malaria and human malaria, Whitmore.. Rat-bite fever treated successfully by novarsenobillon, Low and Cockin. A case of tuberculosis in a rat, Bodkin.. The eradication of tuberculosis from cattle and swine, Kiernan . [Diseases of cattle], Giltner.... Bovine infectious abortion investigations], Huddleson.. Attenuation of hog cholera virus and its effect on normal hogs, McArthur.. The streptococcus in acute epidemic respiratory infection of horses, Mathers... Canine coccidiosis, Hall and Wigdor .. Studies in abdominal purulent conditions of the hen, Kaupp. Poultry diseases, Kaupp. Fire protection for grain fields, Metcalf. Absorption of coal tar and creosote in longleaf pine, Teesdale and MacLean... RURAL ECONOMICS. A farm management study in southeastern Minnesota, Boss et al.. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Rural-teacher preparation in county training schools and high schools, Foght.. Home and school gardening in Detroit, Grosvenor. Garden clubs in the schools of Englewood, N. J., Smith.. Methods of teaching types and breeds and poultry judging, Quast. MISCELLANEOUS. Thirtieth Annual Report of Colorado Station, 1917. Monthly bulletin of the Western Washington Substation..... Page. 386 386 387 387 387 387 387 388 388 388 389 389 389 389 389 390 390 390 390 391 391 392 392 392 392 392 393 393 393 393 393 394 394 395 395 396 396 396 396 397 397 397 397 397 397 397 397 398 398 398 398 U. S. Department of Agriculture-Contd. Bul. 607, Tests of the Absorption Bul. 668, Nurse Planting Select Page. 394 357 395 386 390 379 378 395 314 341 Bureau of Animal Industry: Oak Poisoning of Live Stock, C. D. Marsh, A. B. Clawson, and H. Marsh.. 386 Bureau of Entomology: Destroy Grasshoppers with Poisoned Bran Bait.. 359 366 No. 3, May 21, 1918... 366 Seed Rptr., vol. 1, No. 9, June 8, 1918.. 343 Bureau of Plant Industry: Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction during the Period from April 1 to June 30, 1915. Bureau of Soils: Field Operations, 1916 Soil Survey of Rapides Parish, La., E. H. Śmies et al.. Soil Survey of Dodge County, Nebr., B. W. 333 Chemical Tests for the Detection of Rancidity, R. H. Kerr. A New and Improved Method for Obtaining Pectin from Fruits and Vegetables, C. A. Magoon and J. S. Caldwell.. 315 The Direct Heat Treatment of Cement Mill Dust to Increase Its Water-soluble Potash Content, A. R. Merz........ Notes on the Altitudinal Range of Forest Fungi, J. R. Weir. On the Existence of Immunity Principles in Insects, R. W. Glaser... Notes on the North and Central American Species of Acanthocephala, E. H. Gibson and Abby Holdridge...................... On the Occurrence of & Mermis Epidemic_ _Amongst Grasshoppers, R. W. Glaser and A. M. Wilcox.. Key and Descriptions for the Separation and Determination of the First Instar Stem Mothers of the Three Species of Aphids Most Commonly Attacking the Cultivated Apple, M. T. Smulyan..... Preliminary Experiments with Sodium Fluorid and Other Insecticides against Biting and Sucking Lice, F. C. Bishopp and H. P. Wood.. The Genus Narnia and a Key to the Genera of Anisoscelini (Coreida: Heteroptera), E. H. Gibson and Abby Holdridge. Experiments with Cutworm Baits, J. J. Davis and C. F. Turner.. Ascogaster carpocapsæ, a Para- Notes on Diptera, J. M. A New Genus of Cyrtidæ from 359 360 360 361 361 361 362 362 Soil Survey of Hall County, Nebr., J. O. Veatch and V. H. Seabury... 321 Weather Bureau: Lipeurus dovei n. n., E. A. McGregor.. The Regulation of the Manufacture and Sale of Veterinary Biologic Products by the Bureau of Animal Industry, J. R. Mohler, A. R. Ward, and H. J. Shore..... The Eradication of Tuberculosis from Cattle and Swine, J. A. Kiernan........... 364 387 390 1 Printed in scientific and technical publications outside the Department. EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. VOL. 39. SEPTEMBER, 1918. No. 4. For many years the Record has been publishing a summary of the various acts making appropriations for the support of the Federal Department of Agriculture. These acts, prescribing somewhat definitely the Department's activities for the ensuing fiscal year and providing for the financing of these activities, have served as a convenient indicator of its progress as well as a forecast of its program for the months to come. More than this, as has been frequently stated, the acts have seldom been mere routine measures, but have usually embodied more or less general legislation on agricultural matters. Thus they have constituted concrete expressions of current public opinion as to some of the most pressing problems of American agriculture and the ways in which an institution like the Department can most effectively aid in their solution. It has seemed desirable to summarize the latest of these appropriation acts in much the same way as in former years, although in several respects the conditions are not wholly comparable. The last general appropriation act to be discussed was enacted March 4, 1917, preceding by a few weeks the declaration of the existence of a state of war with Germany. The abnormal conditions following led to a redirection of many of the Department's activities with a view to the solution of problems of immediate importance having a direct bearing on the emergency. To enable the Department to deal more effectively with the war conditions, what is known as the Food Production Act was approved August 10, 1917. This measure carried an additional appropriation of $11,346,400 to supplement the regular appropriations for the remainder of the fiscal year. In submitting estimates for the ensuing fiscal year, that ending June 30, 1919, the policy of embodying the appropriations in two acts, the regular and the emergency, was continued. The regular act was framed primarily to deal with what may be termed the normal activities of the Department without special reference to war conditions. Subsequently an emergency agricultural appropriation bill was prepared along the general lines of the Food Produc tion Act. For various reasons neither of these measures was enacted by the close of the fiscal year. The regular act, passed by the House of Representatives February 1, 1918, and by the Senate March 21, was finally agreed upon by Congress but was vetoed by the President July 12 because of a provision embodied in it increasing the uniform minimum price guaranteed for the wheat crop of 1918. It was reintroduced September 21 in identical form except for the elimination of this amendment and became law on October 1. The emergency act, carrying supplementary appropriations aggregating over $11,000,000 and extending additional appropriations of $6,500,000 for the purchase and sale of seed as a revolving fund, was passed by the House May 23 and by the Senate with extensive amendments September 23, but had not become law at the time of writing. The three months' interval between the ending of the previous fiscal year and the passage of the regular appropriation act was provided for by the adoption of special joint resolutions continuing with some restrictions the appropriations of the previous year. The emergency appropriations of the Food Production Act were being similarly continued for the month of October. Comparison of the new appropriations with those of former years is further complicated by the fact that increasingly large sums of money are now available to the Department through other channels than the annual agricultural appropriation acts. Thus, what are known as the permanent appropriations of the Department, which a few years ago were comparatively minor sources of income, will aggregate for the present fiscal year $22,735,000. The largest items are the Federal Aid Road Act carrying $16,000,000, the meat inspection provision of $3,000,000, and the Agricultural Extension Act with $2,580,000. Some annual allotments for the Department are also carried in other appropriation acts. One of these provides $650,000 for its printing and binding. Another makes an indefinite appropriation increasing for the year the salaries of most of the employees of the Department, in common with those of other branches of the Government, who receive under $2,620 per annum. This latter provision authorizes a flat increase of $10 per month, under certain conditions, for employees receiving $2,500 per year or less and is in lieu of a percentage increase of 5, or in some cases 10, per cent made the previous year to employees receiving $1,800 and under. The aggregate funds from these various sources can not be definitely stated, but, including the emergency appropriations on the present basis, will exceed $35,000,000. The appropriations carried by the regular act, amounting to $27,875,353, thus will probably constitute less than half of the funds available for the Department. |