104 AGKICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



ficiencv. We will work alonjr this $850,000 operatinjr fund until 

 it is exhausted, and then we will have to stop. But we are tryin<r to 

 spread it out so it will cover over the 12 months and not spend it 

 all the first six months, for instance. 



Mr. Andkhson. You made that statement of the proportion of 

 the tuberculosis in different territories. Are your operations gen- ^ 

 erally in the territories in which the larger percentage of tuber- J 

 culosis maintains ? * 



Doctor MoHLER. Yes, sir ; speaking generally. We have our largest 

 force in New York, for instance, and that State has as much tuber- 

 culosis as any other State in the Union, and they are also appro- 

 priting the largest amount of monej'. They have this year one and 

 a half million dollars in New York State alone, and we have tried 

 to put our $2,000,000 for all the States against the various State 

 appropriations of over $3,500,000. We therefore have allotted about 

 $2 for each $3.50 of the State money, and that is the reason why New 

 York State has received more than some of the other States, because 

 she has spent more on her own disease control. 



TUBERCULOSIS WORK IN TF;XA8. 



Mr. Buchanan. Is there any tuberculosis in Texas? 



Doctor MoHLER. Yes sir; there is, 



Mr. Anderson. Can 3'ou put that map in the record in the form 

 of a statement? 



Doctor MoHLER. Yes, sir: and I shall be glad to do so. 



Mr. Buchanan. I did not supjwse that tuberculosis was in Texas. 



Doctor MoHLER. It is not at all extensive in Texas, but you have 

 enough dairy herds near the larger cities of Dallas, Houston, El 

 Paso, Fort Worth, etc., to give you a small proportion of the disease. 



Mr. Buchanan. Around these little circles is where it is supix)sed 

 to be present? 



Doctor MoHLER (referring to map). Where the dots are you have 

 less than six-tenths of 1 per cent. 



Mr. Buchanan. We have it in all sections? 



Doctor MoHLER. Yes; but more in certain sections, and so far as 

 I am informed it is chiefly among the dairy cattle. 



Mr. Buchanan. That is Jersevs? 



Doctor MoHLER. Jerseys and llolsteins, largely. 



Mr. Buchanan. According to this, then, Texas has less than anv 

 other State? 



Doctor MoiiLER. She has very little in propoi-tion to her large num- 

 ber of cattle and her s(iuare miles of territory, but I shall be veiy ghul 

 to interpret that map in the form of a table. It shows you how the 

 dairy sectioas of Iowa, New York, and northeastei-n Illinois are 

 bur(lened with it. 



