AGRICULTURAL APPIW)PRIATI()X HILL, 1024. l.'^9 



parts of tlu' yoiw at vurioiK fiiin'**, ami \vv li«;uri'<l that wp rouKl pro- 

 tect that intrriuittcnt lUM'd in otlior ways. 



Mr. lU'ciiAVAN. In <)tlu»r words, the salaries have heeti low and it 

 has been hard to keep anyl>o<ly in there, and those phups havr been 

 vacant most of the time 



Doctor T.wr.oit. A fnir proportion of the time; some of th<-ni m<<sit 

 of the time. 



Mr. lircHANAN. AntI you concludetl there wius no u.se in keeping 

 the places open ? 



Doctor Tavi.ok. ^'es, sir. 



Mr. liucHANAN. Thev wouhl have been dropped whether you had 

 any of this reorfjjani/.ation or not ( 



l)oetor 'rAYi,<iK. They are convenient in that they do not invf>lve 

 encroachment on our lump fund at the times when we need people. 

 but we can, we li«;ure. jjet alonj; without them. 



Mr. Andkkson. There is one item I want t«» ask you about at the 

 bottom of this pa<;e 72. You have SS laborers at -STliO each reduce<l 

 to 86. Those are two that were transferred to the Secretary's roll i! 



¥On INVESTIOATIOX OF PLANT DISEASES AM) PATHOLOGICAL 



COLLECTIONS. 



Doctor Taylor. Yes, sir. Tlie next is p^eneral expenses, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, pajje 74 — the subappropriation for investijijations 

 of plant diseases ami pathological collections, including the main- 

 tenance of a plant disease survey: There are changes involving an 

 apparent decrease of So, 000. Actually tliere is no change in the 

 amount of money that will be available for the work heretofore 

 carried on. Fifteen thousand dollars is shifted from this subappro- 

 priation to the next subappropriation, that for the investigation of 

 diseases of orchards and other fruits, including the diseases of the 

 pecan, as follows: S10,000 heretofore carried by the proviso in this 

 subappropriation for research in brown rot and kindred diseases 

 of peach trees, and So, 000 not specifically provided but added to this 

 paragraph at the last session for fruit diseases work. The fruit 

 disease of the department is carried in the paragraph succeeding 

 this, and it is desirable to have the funds there rather than in this 

 place. It involves merely the shift of the funds to the unit where 

 the work is done. Partially balancing this transfer out of Slo.OOO. 

 there is a transfer into this of SIO.OOO from the subappropriation for 

 cereal disease control, which it is proposed to drop. That you will 

 find on page 102. 



Mr. BrciiANAX. Let me get this clear in my heafl. You speak of 

 a transfer. You dt) not mean you transfer an apjiropriation ali-eady 

 made? 



Doctor Taylor. No. 



Mr. RrcHAN.VN. In other words, you do not need so much you 

 have under one item and you knock that off of that item and so you 

 have that much more on another item ( 



Doctor Taylor. It is not quite that, Mr. Ruduman. in that these 

 funds will be used, if Congress approves of this shift, next vear for 

 exactly the purpose for which they were provided and for which thev 

 are being used this year. The history of these particular items is 

 this — on the floor of the Senate two yeat^ ago the proviso of SI 0,000 



