44 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



Doctor Allen. No, sir : ^hen the Hatch Act was passed there Avere 

 quite a number of Territories — Arizona and others. Those have all 

 become States, so that this only provides for continental United 

 States, 



Mr. Anderson. So that that lannfuage is not applicable any more. 



Doctor Allen. It is superfluous. 



Mr. Anderson. And the same thing is true of the item on page '20 ? 



Doctor Allen. Yes, sir; and that second limitation, provitling 

 that not more than $15,000 should not be paid to eacli State and 

 Territor}', was deemed superfluous, because it is carried in the Adams 

 Act itself. 



AGRICULTITKAL CX3LLEGE EXTENSION WORK, ETC. 



Mr. Anderson. The next item is the one on page 21. 



Doctor Allen. That provides for supervision by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture of these funds under these two appropriations and the 

 supervision also of the insular experiment stations. 



Mr. Anderson. I see you have some language eliminated here. It 

 apparently eliminates reference to the acts of May 8. 1914, and the 

 act approved July 2, 1862. 



Doctor Allen. That was the original Morrill Act. This May 

 8, 1914, is the Smith-Lever Act : that has been taken out and put 

 under the extension office. 



Mr. Anderson. Oh. I see. This is all one proposition and takes 

 out of the operation of this particular appropriation the Vork under 

 the Smith-Lever Act? 



Doctor Allex. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Anders4)N. I see. Evidently you are. not spending much 

 money under this appropriation for supervision of that act. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED 



STATES. 



The next item is on page 23, " * * * to establish agricultural 

 stations in Alaska," etc. There you nudve a reduction of S."),000. 

 If my recollection is correct, last year tiiere was a i)roi)osition which 

 involved the construction of some buildings in Alaska. Can you 

 tell us wdiat happened to that ? 



Doctor Allen. Doctor Evans will explain that. 



ALASKA EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Doctor Evans. The situation, Mr. Chairman, so far as the build- 

 ings in Alaska are concerned, is practically the same as it was. We 

 did not get the approjiriation we asked for 1923. The oidy building 

 work that has been done was sonu' repair work at the Fairbanks 

 Station to render the old log building luibitable and to replace the 

 root cellar at the Fairbanks Staticm, and one at the Sitka Station, 

 both of which had fallen in, and it had become necessary to replace 

 them to take care of the root crops and othei- tilings that luul to lie 

 kept from freezing during the winter. 



Mr. Anderson. Well, this item foi- Alaska, tlu'n. doesn't cover any 

 new construction for this year? 





