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Show RECORD AGRICULTURE BILL AWAITS HOUSE APPROVAL One of the largest appropriations appropria-tions for the Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture will be passed by the House this week. The total of the appropriation is $1,102,000,000. The bill contains a provision for the expenditure of $300,000,000, for the Soil Conservation program. pro-gram. This is one of the largest single items in the. appropriations. appropria-tions. Also, there is an item of $1,000,000, believed to be wholly inadequate, which is ear-marked to purchase surplus equipment for the Soil Conservation Service. Serv-ice. Such equipment would include in-clude tractors, caterpillers, drag lines and heavy soilmoving machinery. |