PUBLIC LAW 4 5 1 - J U L Y 5, 1952
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BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL, AND I N D U S T R I A L C H E M I S T R Y
For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations established under the provisions of section 202(a) to 202 (e), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1292); for the development of new and extended food, feed, and industrial uses for agricultural commodities, both plant and animal, and potential replacement crops, and processing, biological, chemical, physical, pharmacological, toxicological, and technological investigation thereof, $7,500,000.
52 Stat. 37.
BUREAU o r P L A N T I N D U S T R Y, SOILS, A N D AGRICULTURAL E N G I N E E R I N G
Plant, soil, and agricultural engineering research: For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations concerning plants, soils, and agricultural engineering, including those related to the production, improvement, handling, processing, transportation, and storage of farm and other crops; control of weeds, plant diseases, and nematodes; discovery and introduction of new and useful plants, both foreign and native; soil and water management to improve soil productivity; the relation of soils to plant, animal, and human nutrition; classification and mapping of soils; fertilizers, liming materials, and soil amendments; farm machinery and processing equipment; farm buildings, and farm electrification; and for the acquisition (not to exceed one), operation, and maintenance of airplanes; $11,465,000, including not to exceed $15,000 for construction of an addition to the United States Cotton Ginning Branch Laboratory at Mesilla Park, New Mexico. National Arboretum: For the maintenance and development of the National Arboretum established under the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1927 (20 U.S.C. 191-194), $149,000.
C o tton Ginning Branch Laboratory.
44 Stat. 1422.
B U R E A U OF ENTOMOLOGY A N D P L A N T Q U A R A N T I N E
Salaries and Expenses For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and surveys for the promotion of economic entomology, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects and related pests injurious to agriculture, for importing useful and beneficial insects and bacterial, fungal, and other diseases of insects and related pests, for investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects affecting man and animals, and the best ways of utilizing beneficial insects, for carrying into effect the provisions of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U.S.C. 37 Stat. 315. 42 833; 33 151-167), the Honey Bee Act (7 U.S.C. 281-283), the Insect Pest Stat. Stat. 56 Stat. 1269; Act (7 U.S.C. 141-144), the Mexican Border Act (7 U.S.C. 149), 4o the Act of May 9, 1938, relating to grasshoppers. Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs (7 U.S.C. 148-148e), and the Organic Act of 1944 52 Stat. 344. (7 U.S.C. 147a), as amended, authorizing the eradication, control, 58 Stat. 735. and prevention of spread of injurious insects and plant pests; including the operation and maintenance of airplanes and the purchase of not to exceed two, as follows: Insect investigations: For the investigation of insects affecting fruits, grapes, nuts, trees, shrubs, forests and forest products, truck and garden crops, cereal, forage and range crops, cotton, tobacco, sugar plants, ornamental and other plants and agricultural products, household possessions, and man and animals; for bee culture and apiary management; for classifying, identifying, and collecting information to determine the distribution and abundance of insects; 93300 O - 53 - 25
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