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  • c 8 and other necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, for the division of chemistry, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, two thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available. Forestry Investigations: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on the subjects of forestry, forest fires, and lumbering; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to collect and distribute valuable economic forest tree seeds and plants; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for the purchase of all necessary supplies and apparatus, for freight and express charges, and traveling expenses, eighty thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed five thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be used to investigate the forest conditions in the southern Appalachian mountain region of western North Carolina and adjacent States. Experimental Gardens and Grounds, Department of Agri culture: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of the lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the 'conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employment of foremen, gardeners, laborers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics; machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, plows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, watering cans, tubs, pots, and other implements required in cultivation; lumber, hardware, glass, paints, tin, stone, gravel, and other material required for repairs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blacksmithing, horseshoeing, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagating purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, freight and express charges, repairing roadways and walks, and for electric lighting, twenty thousand dollars. Soil Investigations: Investigation of the relation of soils to climate and organic life; for the investigation of the texture and composition of soils in the field and laboratory; for the investigation of the cause and prevention of the rise of alkali in the soils of the irrigated districts; the investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters, and of methods for the prevention of the accumulation of and injury from seepage waters in irrigated districts; to map the tobacco soils of the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of growth in Cuba, Sumatra, and other competing countries; to investigate the methods of curing, with particular reference to fermentation; to originate, through selection and breeding, improved varieties of the principal tobacco districts of the United States, and to secure, as far as may be, a change in the methods of supplying tobacco to foreign countries; the location of the stations, and the rent of a building, not to exceed six hundred and sixty dollars per annum, for office and laboratory purposes; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; the preparation of drawings and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, appa-
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  • In 1900, the Appalachian National Park Association submitted a Memorial to Congress and, on May 25, 1900, a bill passed authorizing funds to investigate the possibility of a national park. The association frequently reproduced editorials and reports to distribute as promotional fliers. The number 3000 printed on this document indicated that the association printed and distributed 3000 copies. Although the organization had major successes early on, their efforts met with resistance and the organization disbanded in 1905.

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