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332 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 677. 1888. D§*’*¤*°¤°*°°°¤°mi° Division of economic ornithology and mammalogy: For the pro-

 motion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; an investigation of

the food habits, distribution, and migrations of _North American birds and mammals, in relation to agric ture, horticulture, and forestry ; for publishing report thereon; and for drawings, traveling and other ex enses in the ractical work of the division, four thousand dollars. G¤r·i¤¤S¤¤dS*°*¤¤d¤· Dxperimentalpgardens and grounds: For labor in experimental gardens and grounds, the care o conservatorres, plant and fruit propagating and seed-testing houses, the keep of the reservation, awns, trees, roadways, and walks, twelve thousand dollars. · T¤¤*¤·¤¤¤¤=**¤l¤·¤*¢· For blacksmithing, the purchase of tools, wagons, carts, harness, lawn-mowers, and other machinery, and the necessary labor and material for repairing the same; for the purchase of new and rare kinds of seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagating fpurzposes, including expense of material and labor in pac ing plants or istribution and for transportation, for necessary pots, tubs, watering-cans, and hose, materials for the destruction of insects, and all other necessary items for the cultivation and improvement of the grounds and arboretum; for the purchase of glass, paints, lumber, and tm for rooting and spouting, hardware, and for carpenter, painter, and other mechanical work necessa for keeping in good repair the conservatories, greenhogsps, ang Either garden structures, fourteen thousand six hundred an ort dollars. Musewn. Museuin; For collecting and modeling fruits, vegetables, and other plants, for labor and material in preparing them for the museum, one thousand dollars. sea: as-mtu. Seed division: For the purchase, propagation, and distribution, as required by law, of seeds, bulbs, trees, s rubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, an expenses of labor, transportation, paper, twine, gum, printing, posta ·cards, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same, and to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, one hundred thousand dollars. ¤¤¤¤·i¤¤¤¤¤· An equal proportion of two-thir·ds of all seeds, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, an p ants shall, u on their request, be supplied to Senators, e resentatives, and lgelegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents; and the person receiving such seeds shall inform the Department of results of the experiments therewith: lgurgmgonofsem Provided, That all seeds, plants, and cuttings herein allotted to ,,,c__ u,,,,,,,,, ,0,, · Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to Congress for distribution remaining uncalled for at the end of the fiscal year shall be distributed by the Commissioner of Agriculture: And pro/vicled also, That the Commissioner shall report, as provided in this act, the place, quantit , Purchase. and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase. But nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Commissioner of Agriculture rom sending flower, garden, and other seeds to those who aptply for the same. And the amount herein a pro riated shall not be iverted or used for any other pur se but fhr tds purchase, propagation, and distribution of improvedpajnd valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and lants: But ovided, however, That the Commissioner shall not distribute to any Sbhator, Re resentative, m1;;§;¤d¤giyg_¤»§gyb¤ or Delegate seeds entirely unnt for the climate and locality he repre- ' sents, but shall distribute the same so that each member may have seeds of equal value, as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents.

 eu:. Printing seed-pockets, labels, postal-cards, circulars and-so-forth,

labor, paper, ink, type, and other necessary material for printing, and for purchasing and repairing presses, four thousand two hungrpfl dollars ; in all, one hundred and four thousand two hundred o ars. & · Collecting agricultural statistics, division of agricultural statistics: For collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics: for expenses of local investigations and compilations, and for necessary