$600 ;  one  l&borer,  S540 ;  one  laborer,  (480 ;  one  laborer,  S420 ;  two  char-
women, at  1480  each;   three  charwomen,   at  $240  each;  in  tHi,
^^  $102,180,

invtstiguimS^iii-     Gbnebal  EXFBNSBS,  BuRBATj  OF  Entouoloot:  For  the  promotion

""'••"■  of  economic  entomology;  for  investigating  the  history  and    the

habits  of  insects  injurious  and  beneficial  to  a^culture,  horticultnre,
arboriculture,  and  the  study  of  insects  affecting  the  health  of  man
and  domestic  animals^  and  ascertaining  the  best  means  of  destroyii^
those  found  to  be  injurious;  for  collating,  digesting,  reporting,  and
illustrating  the  results  of  such  investigations;  for  salaries  and  the
employment  of  labor  in  the  city  of  Washington  and  elsewhere,  rent
outside  of  the  District  of  Coimnbia,  frai^t,  express  charges,  official
traveling  expenses,  office  ffiitures,  supphes,  apparatus,  telegraph  and
siMctaa  obiMti        telephone  service,  ^as,  and  electric  current,  in  connection  with  the

following  investi^tions :
pruit^ruit  trees,  «o.      p^^,  investigations  of  insects  affecting  deciduous  fruits,  orchards,
poeans.  vinevards,  and  nute,  »83,380:  Provid^,  That  $9,600  of  said  sum

shall  be  available  for  the  investigation  of  insects  affecting  the  pecan
and  method  of  control  of  same;

^^r^raai  and  Ecngt  j-^j.  inyes ligations  of  insects  affecting  cereal  and  for&ge  crops,
including  a  special  investigation  of  the  Hessian  fly  and  the  chinch
bug,  tl23,260;
tbem  orops.  ^^^  investigations  of  insects  affecting  southern  field  crops,  including
insects  affectmg  cotton,  tobacco,  rice,  sugar  cane,  and  so  forth,  ana
the  cigarette  beetle  and  Argentine  ant,  $89,400;
■^^        .nana      ^^'  investigations  of  insects  affecting  forests,  $50,770;

products.ew^'  For    investigations    of   insects    affecting    truck   crops,    including

insects  affecting  the  potato,  sugar  beet,  cabbie,  onion,  tomato,
beans,  peas,  and  so  forth,  and  insects  affecting  stored  products,
$47,760;
Bee  culture.  For  investi^tions  and  demonstrations  in  bee  culture,  $20,000;

t.^S*fr!ii^  "*"      ^*"'  investigations  of  insects  affecting  tropical  and  subtropical
fruits,   including  insects  affecting  the  orange,  lemon,  grapefruit,
mango,  and  so  «)rth,  $17,100;
Kruitiues.  YoT  investigations  and  control,  in  cooperation  with  the  Federal

Horticultural  Board,  of  the  Mediterruiean  and  other  fruit  ffiee,
$33,200;

^uoeiianeont  ^qt  investigations,  identifications,  and  systematic  classification  of
miscellaneous  insects,  including  the  study  of  insects  affecting  the
health  of  mui  and  domestic  animals,  household  insects,  and  the
importation  and  exchange  of  useful  insects,  $56,380;

pensw.         '^  *^"      For  general  administrative  expenses  connected  with  above  lines  of
investigations,    and    for   miscellaneous    expenses    incident    thereto,
$3,000:
In  all,  for  general  expensee,  $524,250.
