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SIXTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. IV. Crr. 119. 1923. 1307 instrument maker $1,200; messen er $840; two mesenger boys at $480 each; messenger or laborer, $660; laborers—two at $600 each, one $300; charwoman or laborer, $480; in all, $76,440. GENERAL EXPENSES, BUREAU OF SOILS. General expenses. For all necessa expenses connected with the investi tions and IP“*“€¤*“°¤¤· *¤· experiments hereiiilafter authorized, including the empddyment of pmmmmm investigators, local and special agents, axistants, experts, clerks, draftsmen, and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; oilicial traveling expenses, materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, repairs to apparatus, chemicals, furniture, office fixtures, stationery, gas, electric current, telegraph and telephone service, express and reight charges, rent outside the District of Columbia, and for all other necessary supplies and expenses as follows: For chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition, and u$‘§}’§$,'f§ ,’,‘§Y°“"g"‘ soil minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil and all chemical I properties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture and soil productivity, including all routine chemical work in conneition vlviith the soil survey, $23,11£; or sica investigations of the important ro erties of soil . Phyjicei PF°d“°u"‘ which djetgrmine productivity, such as moisture rellatgms, aerations, Ima esugmm heat conductivity, texture, and other physical investigations of the various soil classes and soil types, $12,225; For investigation within the United States of fertilizers and F¤¤iJiwS»¤*°· gther soil amendments and their suitability for agricultural use, 60,000; For the investigation of soils, in cooperation with other branches g°°I,;°t:“dV°"“Im“P‘ of the Department of Agriculture, other departments of the Gov- P g’ ' ernment, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State institutions, and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations, $168,200; _ For examination of soils to aid in the classification of agricul— c,$,,‘§’§{',§’{§§‘§'f' °f°gd' tural lands, in cooperation with other bureaus of the department and other departments of the Government, $15,000; For general administrative expenses connected with the above- p,$s<*g*¤*¤*’°*i"° °X‘ mentioned lines of investigation, $4,000; ' In all, eneral ex enses, $282,535. Total, Sureau of Soils, $358,975. BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. E¤w¤¤¤1¤zy1¤¤¤r¤¤¤- sarnuzrrzs. Entomologist, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; three adminis- 0,E§_Q•;;f;f;°g*,;;;,,§§{§f trative assistants, at $2,250 each; clerks-seven of class four, c1¤¤,¤¤¤ thirteen of class three, twenty-two of class two, nineteen of class one; insect delineators-one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; entomological draftsmen-—two at $1,400 each, one $1,080; entomological preparators-—-seven at $1,000 each, one $840; laborer, $1,080; messengers or laborers-—two at $900 each, one $840, one $720; six messenger boys, at $480 each; charw0men—·two at $480 each, three at $240 each; in all, $123,870. GENERAL rixrrmsns, BUREAU or rmrouoriocy. G°*°'°‘°°‘P€°°°’· For the promotion of economic entomology; for investigating m,l§Q{",Y"g°t‘°°’°”"d the history and the habits of insects injurious and beneficial to a icultnre, horticulture. arboriculture, and the study of insects a%€:cting the health of man and domestic ammals, and ascertaining