176 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



Mr. Anderson. This increase, I underetand, is to cover additional 

 equipment, fencing and so on, but does not enlarge the experimental 

 station. 



Doctor Taylor. No; it does not enlarge the area at all. These 

 vineyards were established as cooperative vineyards, the labor upon 

 which, the team power, and the buildings used for which, were se- 

 cured by the department from the growers through reimbursement of 

 the actual operating expense of labor, material, etc., to the owners of 

 the land. 



Congress decided to purchase the vineyards when the apprehended 

 catastrophe loomed up and authorized their purchase. These are 

 now Government-owned property without fencing or buildings and 

 without operating equipment. This year they have been carried 

 along under a makeshift arrangement with the neighbors, which it is 

 not practical to continue. 



Mr. Anderson. There are no ])uildings on these properties ? 



Doctor Taylor. No, sir. 



Mr. Anderson. And no fences? 



Doctor Taylor. I believe there is an outside fence along the Fresno 

 property. 



Mr. Andersox. What buildings will it be necessary to erect there ? 



Doctor Taylor. It will be necessary to erect a general workshop 

 and field laboratory building at each, and it will be very desirable to 

 provide a dwelling for the man in charge as there is no housing 

 nearby in either place for such a man, and he should be there on the 

 place at all hours of the day. 



Mr. Anderson. How many people do you have on these places i 



Doctor Taylor. We have not anyone at present steadily there 

 except near-by laborers working under supervision of an assistant in 

 California who has general supervision over them. At certain times 

 of the year, at the propagating times, and again at harvesting time, 

 when the fruit is harvested for the testing, there are two or three 

 temporary employees maintained. 



Mr. Anderson. You have no permanent man on either one,, of 

 these places ? 



Doctor Taylor. No; we have no housing whatever on either place, 

 either for men or for implements. 



Mr. Anderson. Do you have anybody who goes out there more 

 than once or twice a year ^ 



Doctor Taylor. Oh, yes; we have the near-by laborers, who are 

 there nearly every day, under the direction of the technical assistant 

 in general charge of the vineyards. 



Mr. Anderson. But you have no superintendent? 



Doctor Taylor. No superintendent there; no, sir. 



Mr. Buchanan. How many acres have you? 



Doctor Taylor. Twenty acres at each place. 



Mr. BccHANAN. l*lanted in grapes ? 



Doctor Taylor. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Br(^iiANAN. All in grapes? 



Doctor Taylor. Yes, sir. 



Mr. lircHANAN. Is theie any plowing and cultivation of it ? 



Doctor Taylor. Yes. That thus far done during the transition 

 period since the vineyards were purchased last winter has been by 

 Jiiring arrangements with near-by vinevardists. 



