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Show WASHINGTON NEWS izm FOM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Arr!cultvral Appropriation Or.e ot the largest appropriations for the Department of Agriculture will be p..ssed by the House this week. The total of the appropriation appropria-tion is $1,102,000,000. The bill contains con-tains a provision for the expenditure expendi-ture of $300000,000, for the Soil Conservation program. This is one of the largest single items in the .-".pproprlntions Also, there is an Item of $1,000,000, which many of U3 believe Is wholly Inadequate, which is ear-marked to purchase surplus equipment for the Soil Conservation Service.. Such equipment equip-ment would Include tractors, cater-plllers, cater-plllers, drag lines and heavy soil-moving soil-moving machinery. I |