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55 STAT.] 77 TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 267-JULY 1, 1941 tions, experiments, and demonstrations, and for aiding in formulating programs for authorized activities of the Department of Agriculture, relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food products, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in production to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, including the employ- ment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, either independently or in cooperation with public agencies or organ- izations, $857,105, together with $1,762,895 transferred from other appropriations as herein provided, of which amount not to exceed $1,615,812 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer to this appro- priation from the funds available for authorized activities of the Department of Agriculture, such sums as may be necessary for aiding in formulating programs for such authorized activities, including expenditures for employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. OFFICE OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL RELATIONS Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the functions of the Secre- tary of Agriculture under the Act of June 5, 1930 (7 U. S. C . 541- 545), independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with American republics, as provided for by the Act approved August 9, 1939 (22 U. S . C . 249), and including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and the purchase of such books and periodicals and not to exceed $500 for newspapers as may be necessary in connection with this work, $221,716. Grand total, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $27,313,976. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere for carrying out the provisions of the Act, as amended, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and related Acts; and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon application of any exporter, importer, packer, owner, agent of, or dealer, in livestock, hides, skins, meat, or other animal products, may, in his discretion, make inspections and examinations at places other than the headquarters of inspectors for the convenience of said applicants and charge the applicants for the expenses of travel and subsistence incurred for such inspections and examinations, the funds derived from such charges to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation from which the expenses are paid; collect and disseminate information concerning livestock and animal products; prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; purchase 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 ani- mals, test the same, and disseminate the results of said tests in such 415 Proviso. Transfer of funds. Post, p. 831 . 46 Stat. 497. Cooperation with American republics. 53 Stat. 1290. 22 U.S . C .§§ 501,502. Post, p. 832. 23 Stat. 31. 7U.S.C.§391. Inspections at other than headquarters. Preparation, etc., of reports.