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M0NI)AY, NoVKMHKIt 27, 1»2'J. 



STATEMENT OF MR. C. W. HUNT. PRESIDENT IOWA BUREAU 

 FARM FEDERATION. DES MOINES. IOWA. 



Mr. lllNT. ( iciil IciiKMi, the >il luil mil 111 lii\Mi i> jiO'iui hum. \\ V 

 huvi' ln'cii working on llu' ciiKlltatiou of burlxMiv Im.slu's siurr IIMS. 

 In the lii'st four ycni"s coinhinod, liowcver, wo did not acconipli.Hli aM 

 much as wo have afcomplishcd iti tlic year lOJJ uj) to datr. I think 

 there are two reason.** for that increase in tlie success of thr work in 

 19l.*2. one hoinj^ the fact that wo j^ot an increase in l\w Frderal ap- 

 propriation from §117, ()()() to $:i.')(). ()()(). Anotlier reason for the 

 increased interest in the work is the association for tlie prevention of 

 grain rust, of which Mr. Fulh-r has spoken, and of which \w is the 

 director. In h)wa we have cooperated in the puhhcity work, and 

 everv county in the State that has a farm hureau has cooperate<l with 

 Mr. VuUer, and in tliat way we have spread the puhUcity over the 

 entire State. 



We have fjiven a «;reat ihMd of space to it in tlie little paper that we 

 puhlisii at tne Farm Bureau oflice, j^oinjij into the liistory of the nest, 

 and showint^ tlie need for its eraclication. Those two tliinj^s nave 

 made it possible in Iowa to do more wt)rk in 11)22 than was done in 

 the four years preceding. Tlie (juestion of State laws making it 

 possible to eradicate these hushes where the cooperation of the owner 

 of the farm is not given, has been spoken of here. Iowa has such a 

 law, and 1 think some use was made of that law in two ()r three 

 instances in the beginning of the work. However, during the last 

 t w«) years, we have had no trouble with any of the people on the farms, 

 and the city people generally are getting well accpiainted with the 

 necessity for the eradication of the barberry bushes. Therefore, 

 there is the best cooperation all along the line. In the last year. 28 

 counties in the extreme northeastern corner of the State have been 

 gone over, tlie bushes located, and dug out. A lot of that territory 

 along the Mississippi River is some of the worst territory we had to 

 survey on account of the limestone rock and the difliculty in getting 

 the bushes out. We used chemical methods in some places, and 

 • leaned up that section. 



With tlie appropriation of S.")0(),000 that we are asking for here. 

 I am sure we can clean up all the plants in the State of Iowa next 

 yea/. There are 30 counties yet to be gone over, all being in the 

 southern and southeastern portion of the State. Some of tliose 

 counties along the Mississippi River are bad, just as those in the 

 northeast corner, but we can clean them up and probably resurvey 

 the territory that has already been gone over, 'nierefore. it wouhi 

 seem to me that we probablv couhl get along without any further 

 help after next year. Possibly we might need a little approprialion- 

 the year following. Of course, all of you understand that we w«)uld 

 liave a good deal of resurveying work to do. and it would be necessary 

 to get the sprouts and seedlings as they come on after the original 

 l>ushes are taken out. The loss from grain rust in Iowa, I might 

 say, is estimated at $1 .()(»0,()(M). for last year. 



Mr. Andkhsox. Do voii mean the current year or last vear ? 



Mr. HiXT. That would be the estimate for 1922. Tlie average 

 loss for six years has been about Sl,ri()(),00(). A big percentage of 



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