48 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



out replacement, whereas formerly the department exhibits fre- 

 quently were suitable for use during one or two seasons only. 



In the Bureau of Biological Survey it was possible during the 

 year to use $20,000 of the money set aside as a reserve to enable the 

 department in cooperation with one of the Western States to cope 

 with a serious outbreak of rabies among coyotes which threatened 

 to spread into other stock-producing States. As a result of the 

 availability of the money previously reserved, the outbreak was 

 brought under control. If the reserve had not been available it 

 would have been necessary for the department to have asked the 

 Congress for an additional appropriation in connection with this 

 emergency. 



The economies listed above are typical of the spirit in which the 

 department has entered into the plan to conduct the business of the 

 Government on the most economical and efficient basis possible. 



While, as pointed out in the foregoing, we have been able to make 

 a great many very substantial savings in money expended through 

 the application of modern business methods, it is increasingly evident 

 that the largest economies to be effected in the department are those 

 which come as a result of efficient organization. Such economies 

 can not be expressed in dollars and cents. They are measured rather 

 by the larger eifectiveness of the work and the amount of work done 

 for the money expended. The reorganization which resulted in 

 bringing three units into one in the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics is a case in point. This reorganization effected considerable 

 savings which can be measured in money, but altogether the larger 

 savings have come through the increased efficiency and better admin- 

 istration of the work done in this particular field. I am quite sure 

 that similar desired results will follow the reorganization of the 

 extension work. This reorganization has had the careful study of 

 the Assistant Secretary for a year past, and the final plan submitted 

 is the result of that study. When put into effect, as we hope it may 

 be, it will result in considerable saving of money, but, what is far 

 more important, will greatly increase the effectiveness of the exten- 

 sion workers and the quality of the extension work. 

 Respectfully, 



Henry C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agr'icuUure. 



