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reaus, thereby eliniiuuting iluplicatiou aud overlapping throughout the economic 

 units. 



In the Insecticide and Fungicide Board the field work has been redistricted, 

 resulting in a saving of approximately $1,5(K) a year without loss of efficiency. 



In the States lielations Service, by the consolidation of the two Washington 

 (Offices engaged in directing the work of agricultural extension, salaries aggregat- 

 ing approximately $20,U00 have been saved, and as the result of centralizing 

 and rearranging the clerical work in the administrative offices of the same 

 bureau salaries of clerks to the amount of .$8,000 have been saved. 



One field office of the Bureau of Animal Industiy was discontinued during the 

 year and the work of that office consolidated with another, resulting in a saving 

 of approximately .$4,000. Two divisions of the bureau in Washington were 

 merged, resulting in the saving of the salaiy of one chief of division and one 

 clerk, amounting to $.5,070. By consolidating the work of an emijloyee on the 

 Canadian border with the duties of another inspector, a saving of $1.5(X) was 

 ■effected, and the recall of one inspector from overseas has resulted in a further 

 saving of $3,300. In the meat-inspection service by reali.gnment of the force 

 the actual expenditure during 1922 was reduced several thousand dollars, not- 

 Avithstauding the fact that nearly 1,000.000 more animals were slaughtere<l 

 imder inspection during the year and almost 300,000,000 more pounds of meat 

 food products were reinspected, thus avoiding the necessity for additional ap- 

 propriations. In the work of supervising the preparation of biological products 

 a saving of approximately $4,000 was accomplisheil through reduced travel. 

 During the year there wei'e produced 3.037.771 more doses of tuberculin than 

 in the fiscal year 1921, and this was accomplished at a saving of $20.S8.'5 over 

 the amount expended during the previous year. The manufacture and distriVni- 

 tion of blackleg toxin was also discontinued on July 1. resulting in a saving of 

 $10,000 per annum. 



In the office of exhibits the agricultural displays have been prepared in such 

 manner that they can be used a number of times without replacement, whereas 

 formerly the department exhibits frequently were suitaVde for use only during 

 one or two seasons. 



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 coopera- 

 tion with one of the AVestern 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 

 Avas brouglit 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 economii^s listed above are typical of the spirit in winch the department 

 has entered into the plan to conduct the business of the Government on the 

 most economical and efficient basis po.^sible. 



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 j>fficient 

 organization. Such economies can not be expressed in <lollars and cents. They 

 are measured rather by the lai-ger effectiveness of the work and the amount of 

 work done for the money expended. The reorganization which resulted in 

 bringing three imits into one in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics is a 

 case in point. Th's reorganization effected considerable savings which can be 

 measured in money, but altogether the laiger savings have i-ome through tlie 

 Increased elRciency and better tidministi'ation of tlu* work done in this i);irticu- 

 lar field. I am quite sure that sinular desired results will follow the reorgani- 

 zation of the extension work. This reorganization has had the careful study 

 of the Assistant Secretary for a yenr past, and the limil i)l!ni siibmitted is \ho 

 result of tliat stndy. When imt into effect, as we hope it may bo. it will residt 

 in considerable .saving of money, but. what is far more imiiortjint. will greatly 

 incrciise the effectiveness of ilie extension work'ers ;ni(I the (jualit.v of the 

 extension work. 



( O.MI'AiasON OF KSTIAr.XTKS FOR 1'.t24 WITH .\l'l'UOPRT.\TH)NS KOI! llfj.l. 



Mr. J I .MI'. The aofiiculdiral ap])f()iiritition act for the fi.st-al your 

 ending June 80, ll)i!8. curried $;U"),TT4,17;), In addition, the iloiiciency 

 act of Jidy 1, 1922, carried a supplemental appropriation of $155,000, 



