58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For investigations, experiments, and demonstrations hereinafter authorized, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Department, other departments or agencies of the Federal Govern- ment, States, State agricultural experiment stations, universities, and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business, farm, or other organizations and corporations, individuals, associations, and scientific societies, including the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, of which not to exceed $198,280 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; and for erection, alteration, and repair of buildings out- side the District of Columbia: Provided,That the cost of erecting any one building shall not exceed $7,500, and the cost of alterations to any one building shall not exceed $500 or 2 per centum of the cost of the building as certified by the Secretary, whichever is greater, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of Chief of Bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $82,250. Agricultural chemical investigations: For conducting the investi- gations contemplated by the Act of May 15, 1862 (5 U. S. C. 511, 12tat.387 512), relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture; for the biological, chemical, physical, microscopical, and technological investigation of foods, feeds, drugs, plant and animal products, and substances used in the manufacture thereof; for investigations of the physiological effects and for the pharmacological testing of such products and of insecticides; for the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of sugars, sugar sirups, and starches and the utilization of new agricultural materials for such purposes; for the technological investigation of the utilization of fruits and vegetables and for frozen pack investigations; and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the development of meth- ods of analysis, $313,411. Naval-stores investigations: For the investigation of naval stores (turpentine and rosin) and their components; the investigation and experimental demonstration of improved equipment, methods, or processes of preparing naval stores; the weighing, storing, han- dling, transportation, and utilization of naval stores; and for the assembling and compilation of data on production, distribution and consumption of turpentine and rosin, pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S . C . 556b), $112,100. 4stat.6a. Regional research laboratories: For continuing the researches established under the provisions of section 202 (a) to 202 (e), inclu- 2 tat. 37. sive, of title II. and subject to the provisions of section 393 of title III, of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S. C . 1292, 52 t. 70. 1393), including research on food products of farm commodities, $4,244,600. BUREAU OF HUMAN NmUTmTION AND HOME ECONOMICS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $290,400 for personal services in the District of Columbia, of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics for conduct- ing either independently or in cooperation with other agencies, inves- tigations c: the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special sugges- tions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, and such economic investigations, includ- 441
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