STATEMENT OF INCREASES AND DECREASES

Mr. ROBERTS. Table 3 is a statement of increases and decreases which I think the committee members will find very informative when considering this budget on a more or less summary basis, and when you do not want to bother going into the details of the explanatory notes.

(The table referred to is as follows:)

TABLE 3-Statement of increases and decreases, budget estimates, 1952, compared
with appropriations and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations, 1951
[Based on 1951 figures after reductions under sec. 1214 of the 1951 General Appropriation Act and adjusted
for comparability with the appropriation structure proposed in the 1952 budget estimates; figures in
brackets [] not included in totals]

Total direct appropriations, and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations, 1951.
Reduction pursuant to section 1214..

Total available, 1951.

Budget estimates, 1952 (direct appropriations, and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations)...

Net decrease, appropriations, and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations..

$1,458,066, 298 -149,866,500

1,308, 199, 798

1,252, 423, 560

-55,776, 238

Production and Marketing Administration:
Conservation and use of agricultural land resources (increase for
the 1951 crop year agricultural conservation program in accord-
ance with the advance authorization of $285,000,000 carried in
the 1951 Agricultural Appropriation Act. On an available
funds basis, the increase is $2,750,000 due to the availability in
1951 of an additional $25,750,000 borrowed from the Commodity
Credit Corporation as authorized by sec. 391 (c) of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act of 1938 for advances of materials and
services on the 1951 crop program)..

Sugar Act (increase primarily for conditional payments to sugar
growers)..

Marketing services (increases of: (1) $566,500 for mandatory cot-
ton classing (on funds available basis, represents increase of
$250,000 due to availability by transfer of $316,500 in 1951); and
(2) $154,500 to provide more effective enforcement of the U. S.
Grain Standards, the Federal Seed, and the Insecticide, Fungi-
cide, and Rodenticide Acts)...

Soil Conservation Service: Water conservation and utilization proj-
ects. (Net increase for land development. Due to the availability
of prior-year balances of $341,286 in 1951, there will be a net decrease
of $25,886 in total funds available).
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (net increase for servicing, col-
lecting premiums, and inspecting growing crops and adjusting
losses on the 127,000 contract increase in crop year 1951).
Farmers' Home Administration (increase to provide for making
additional production and subsistence and water facilities loans
and for servicing insured mortgages)..

Rural Electrification Administration (for administration of the
rural electrification program (-$17,550) and the rural telephone
program (+$101,200)).

Agricultural Research Administration:

Research on strategic and critical agricultural materials (in-
creases for investigations on extraction of tannin from canaigre,
replacements for specific uses of stockpiled strategic oils, and
on hard-fiber plants and hard-fiber substitutes for cordage)...
Office of Experiment Stations (for payments to Alaska)..
Bureau of Animal Industry (increases for investigations on
control of hog cholera, and to provide a more adequate meat
inspection service).

Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering
(increases to develop wheat varieties resistant to new races of
stem rust, and practical methods for controlling oak wilt; and
for operation of research program at Brawley, Calif.)
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (increases for oak
wilt insect control investigations and to strengthen transit
inspection and port inspection work)...

TABLE 3.-Statement of increases and decreases, budget estimates, 1952, compared with appropriations and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations, 1951-Con.

Control of forest pests: Forest Pest Control Act (net increases to
provide a total contingency fund of $2,000,000 and to strengthen
detection and appraisal surveys. Due to availability of prior-
year balances of $2,079,458 in 1951, there will be a net decrease of
$1,132,458 in total funds available)....
Forest Service:

Salaries and expenses (increases for administration of timber
sales, fire control, range reseeding, survey of forest resources,
and research).

Forest development roads and trails (increase of $7,097,100 for the
construction of additional access roads to standing timber. Due
to the availability of prior year balances of $1,146,638 in 1951,
there will be an increase of $5,950,462 in total funds available)..
Increases of $50,000 for cooperative range improvements and
$2,772,498 in permanent appropriations for payments to States
and Territories (+$1,981,270) and roads and trails for States
(+$791.228) from the national forests fund.

Flood control (increase in appropriation of $2,826,000. Due to avail-
ability of prior-year balances of $3,088,775 in fiscal year 1951, there
will be a net decrease of $262,775 in total funds available consisting
of an increase of $250,000 for general basin investigations in the
Arkansas-White-Red-River and New England-New York areas,
and a decrease of $512,775 for flood-control surveys and works of
improvement).

Extension Service (for payments to Puerto Rico).
Office of the Secretary (increase for more effective liaison between the
Department and the State commissioners, secretaries, and direc
tors of agriculture; for coordination of Department's participation
in the comprehensive program for the New England-New York
area; to strengthen central telephone switchboard service and rec-
ords management and disposition; and to meet mandatory work-
load in the Office of Hearings Examiners).
Other increases....

Decreases:

Production and Marketing Administration:

Acreage allotments and marketing quotas programs. Removal of surplus agricultural commodities (reduction in funds available for sec. 32 purposes, composed of an increase of $38, 807,751 arising from increased customs receipts in calendar year 1950 and the proposal in the 1952 budget to transfer $76,808,000 of such funds to CCC for 1950 costs of the International Wheat Agreement). Soil Conservation Service (decrease due to elimination of nonrecurring items for Greenleaf Lake, Cookson Hills, and San Simon land utilization projects).

Farmers Home Administration (decrease in farm housing repair and
improvement grants)..

Agricultural Research Administration: Decreases in funds for Hall
scale eradication and for research on oriental fruitfly ($175,000) and
elimination of nonrecurring items included in the 1951 act ($583,450),
for alterations and purchases of equipment for tannin extraction
studies, for maintenance work at the Puerto Rico experiment sta-
tion, for completion of construction of buildings and facilities at the
Brawley, Calif., field station, for purchase of office buildings at
Greenfield, Mass., and for establishment of a working capital fund
at the Agricultural Research Center.
Research and Marketing Act of 1946 (title II).

Forest Service (reduction in land purchase program under the Weeks
Act).

Decreases due to providing a direct appropriation to the General
Services Administration for certain procurement and leasing costs
previously paid from appropriations of the Department..
Other decreases...

Net increase, appropriations for current year activity..

TABLE 3.-Statement of increases and decreases, budget estimates, 1952, compared with appropriations and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations, 1951—Con.

Borrowing authorizations:

Rural Electrification Administration:

Rural electrification loans (decrease in borrowing authorization.
Due to carry-over of funds from prior years, a loan program of
$220,000,000 is planned for 1952).

Rural telephone loans (decrease in borrowing authorization. Due to
carry-over of funds from prior years, a loan program of $14,000,000
is planned for 1952).

Farmers Home Administration:

Farm ownership and farm housing loans (decrease in borrowing
authorization. On an available funds basis, there will be a decrease
of $9,634,975 due to the availability in 1951 of prior year balance of
$7,134,975 for farm housing loans)

Production and subsistence loans (net increase consisting of (1) an
increase of $25,000,000 for additional production and subsistence
loans, and (2) a decrease of $18,000,000 due to elimination of funds
provided in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, for loans to
farmers suffering disaster in areas designated under Public Law 38,
approved Apr. 6, 1949)..

Water facilities loans..

Net decrease, appropriations for current year activity and REA
and FHA borrowing authorizations......

Special items:

-$183, 573, 500

-4, 426, 500

-2,500,000

+7,000,000
+1,000,000

-$182, 500,000

-165, 284, 238

Eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animals (1950 costs)

+$32,700,000

International Wheat Agreement (1950 costs-transfer from "Removal of surplus agricultural commodities")

+-76, 808,000

Increase, special items....

+109,508,000

Net decrease, appropriations and REA and FHA borrowing authorizations.....

-55,776, 238

HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZATIONS

Mr. ROBERTS. Tables 4 and 5 contain a summary and detailed historical table on appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. We have attempted to carry that back 10 years. And then, in keeping with the request that this committee made a couple of years ago, we have also made a comparison with 1940, which was the last normal year before World War II.

(The tables referred to are as follows:)

CoFarm labor program.

See footnotes at end of table, p. 58.