168 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 192-t. 



Doctor Kellkrmax. We think that that would represent a good 

 campaign, perhaps as efficient as we couhl liope to make it in this 

 one 3^car. 



Mr. Anderson. I understood that there was to be a conference in 

 MinneapoHs on the 9th and 10th of November on tliis suf)ject. 



Doctor Kellerman. Monchiy and Tuesday of this week. 



Mr. Anderson. Was tliat hehl ? 



Doctor Kellerman. The}' held it and it was a very enthusiastic 

 conference. 



Mr. Anderson. Did you have any representatives there ? 



Doctor Kellerman. Yes; we had three men there and both Doctor 

 Taylor and I hoped to get to that meeting. 



Mr. Anderson. So did I. 



Doctor Kellerman. But there were too many things going on in 

 Washington this week, which made it impossible for us to go. 



That meeting was a very enthusiastic meeting in every way. The 

 Farm Ikireau representatives, State representatives, and representa- 

 tives of the grain trade, as well as people that have been directly con- 

 cerned in carrying on this eradication campaign, have indorsed the 

 campaign to the utmost. 



The representatives from the different States, including the Farm 

 Bureau people, have pledged themselves to do everything in their 

 power to bring about liberal State support. And the entire confer- 

 ence, I learned just a few moments ago, unofficially, is urging more 

 general Federal and State support for the whole campaign. 



Doctor Taylor. There is every indication, Mr. Chairman, of wide- 

 spread agreement in the importance of the work. The various per- 

 sons and organizations interested hope to reduce the })rol)abilitv of 

 another 150,000,000 or 200,000,000 bushel epidemic through prompt 

 carrying through of this eradicating cam])aign. 



Mr. Anderson. I have alwa^'s been rather conservative in rapidly 

 expanding programs of this kind. I was a year ago on this one, {)ut I 

 feel that if this is ever going to be expanded further it ouglit to be done 

 this year. We are in a better position to expand now and get throufjh 

 with it than we ever have been or probably ever will be again, wiiile 

 I appreciate the need of economy. 



Mr. Buchanan. Sometimes economy can be penny wise and pound 

 foolish. 



Doctor Kellerisl\n. I would like to read one other parai^raj^h 

 from the statement of Doctor Stakman with regard to eradication of 

 i)arberry bushes in Denmark and SwccUmi. [R catling:] 



Barl)erry bushes havo l)non almost com]>lotoly romovod from IVnmark. and then' 

 haH not hccii a siii<;;l(' serious outhn^akot" rust since I90:?. when most of the luishes wi-re 

 .removed. The sporadic outbreaks now can easily l)e traced to l)arberrv Imshes which 

 still remain in wooded and waste lands. Nothin<j; could be more convincing; than the 

 contrast between the rust situation in Deiunark and that in Sweden. In Denmark 

 the rust does no dama<j;e whatever. In SwetU'ii. on the otlier hand, it is extremely 

 destructive because of the tremendous numl)er of barberry ))ushes. 



The reports of losses in Sweden are very much like the reports 

 from year to year that occur in our own spi-iiig wlieal region. 



Mr. Andkrson. Now, will you just briefly tell us how this work was 

 organized this year ^ 



Doctor KKF.i.KitNt.VN. 'I'hc work is more dt'diiitely corrcbifcd with 

 the county agents and with the farm bur(>atis than heretofore. It 



