ERADICATION OF PINK BOLLWORM. (P. 96, line 16.) There is an apparent decrease in this item of $307,240, but as $9,840 has been transferred to statutory rolls, the actual decrease is $297,400. MILEAGE RATES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES. (P. 98, line 8.) The paragraph fixing maximum mileage rates for motor vehicles has been amended so as to make its provisions applicable to the next fiscal year. INVESTIGATIONS AND PREVENTION OF PLANT-DUST EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES. (P. 98, line 15.) This is a new item and provides an appropriation of $25,000. Plant-dust explosions and fires in grain mills and elevators, thrashing machines, and cotton gins have resulted in the loss of scores of human lives as well as enormous property losses. The campaign conducted cooperatively by the Bureau of Chemistry, Bureau of Markets, and Bureau of Plant Industry under the funds provided in the food-production act last year were of great benefit to the agricultural, grain, and milling industries of the country in reducing these losses. It also brought out many problems which previous investigations did not solve, and indicated very clearly the importance of making provision for the continuation of the investigational work upon which the campaign was based. Explosions and fires in three types of plants were dealt with, namely, mills and elevators, thrashing machines, and cotton gins. As the funds provided for the work under the food-production act were withdrawn June 30, 1919, it was necessary to discontinue the demonstration work on that date and to take steps to terminate the appointment of the men engaged upon it. Because of the savings that had been effected, the United States Grain Corporation indicated its desire to carry on the work, in so far as it related to grain elevators and flour mills, and reemployed some of the men formerly engaged thereon, and it is now cooperating with this department in so far as the very limited funds of the Bureau of Chemistry will permit. This work is conducted chiefly as an educational campaign of prevention, and it is impossible, with existing funds and facilities, to undertake in an adequate manner the essential investigational work which was suspended at the outbreak of the war. The activities of the department in connection with the prevention of plant-dust explosions and fires involve the close and effective cooperation of the Bureau of Chemistry, Bureau of Markets, and Bureau of Plant Industry. Each of the bureaus is equipped to deal with a particular phase of the problem, and there is a thorough understanding among them regarding the matter. ACCUMULATIVE LEAVE OF EMPLOYEES AT INSULAR STATIONS. (P. 99, line 3.) The following new item has been inserted: Hereafter, if any employee of the Department of Agriculture assigned to permanent duty in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands shall elect to postpone taking any or all of the annual leave to which he may be entitled, he may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to the interests of the public service, be allowed to take at one time in any calendar year unused annual leave which may have accumulated within not to exceed four calendar years immediately preceding and be paid at the rates prevailing during the year such leave has accumulated. This legislation is recommended in order to make the accumulative leave privilege applicable to all employees of the department assigned to permanent duty in the insular possessions and in Alaska. The existing law applies only to the employees of the States Relations Service. INDEX. Abortion, contagious, of cows, work... Accountant, chief, duties and salary, States Relations Service.... Accounts and Disbursements Division: Acts, Hatch, Adams, etc., administration, States Relations Service, report National advisory committee, on meteorological work... Aeroplane construction, research work, War and Navy Departments. 1420-1421 931 1036, 1038 1406 1401 11 128-137 137, 150-151 78, 128-137 581, 585, 586, 587 860-875 Number, work, compensation, etc.. 933-944, 952-961, 962, 964–966, 973–979, Field, number in United States and proposed increase.. Insular stations...... Agricultural: Adviser for insular stations.... 902-908 1023-1024, 1027 Relation to Education Bureau in reindeer work in Alaska, notes... 780-785 855-909 1332 779 35 5-6 524-526 147-149 Air: Approval of automobile hire, public service.......... Letter on need of money for Farm Management work. 1347-1349 1396 1400 1019 493-504 135 134 128-137, 147, 149 776-777 532 Bird and game reservations and protection.. Reindeer- And fur-bearing animals investigations, report on.. Alcohol, use in extracts.. Aleutian Islands: Bird and game protections. 1416 779 689-691 776-777 779 439, 442 Development, remarks... Almonds, production and value per year.. Ames, Joseph S., letter to Chairman Haugen on aeronautics. 150-151 717-720 ... 1342–1344 635, 658, 667-709, 1333–1339, 1342–1344 1391-1392 Discussion of traveling expenses of employees.... As Chief of Chemistry Bureau.................. On sweet potato by-product utilization.......... Anderson, Representative, discussion of: Alfalfa-weevil control.. Animal diseases, work.. Animal husbandry, work. Appropriation for Soils Bureau.. Automobile hire, Forest Service.. 748-749 326-332-342, 345–348 309, 317-319 712 1329, 1330 31 452 1361-1362, 1369, 1370, 1371, 1372, 1375, 1378, 1380 862 1207 751, 754 45-51 45-48 1227–1231, 1238, 1240 1264-1265, 1268-1276 998, 1210, 1217 883 694 700 1061 984, 985, 990 Farm Management Bureau work.. 450 1018 24, 26 |