STATE COOPEKATION. 



310 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, .1924. 



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Doctor Howard. All along the Mediterranean. A 



Mr. Anderson. Do they raise corn there? ■{ 



Doctor Howard. Yes. 



Mr. Anderson. Do tliev raise it successfully? \ 



Doctor Howard. Quite successfully; yes. In Italy, especially, 

 the com horer occurs in almost every cornfield, and does not nave an 

 appreciable oflFect on the crop. 



Mr. Anderson. Does the spread of the borer vary from year to 

 year under different climatic conditions i 



Doctor Howard. It does; under different seasonal conditions, you 

 mean { 



Mr. Anderson. Yes. 



Doctor Howard. It does, unquestionably. We have records of its 

 damage in Besarabia and Transvlvania which show a severe damage; 

 but there is no record of severe loss along the Mediterranean, and we 

 tnink it is controlled by parasites, and that is the reason we are over 

 there trving to get them and bring them over here and reproduce 

 the entire environment of the insect in this country. 



Mr. Anderson. In bringing them over is there any danger of bring- 

 ing bugs that are harmful ( 



Doctor Howard. Quite the reverse. They are so well known in 

 their habits and relations that there is no danger whatever. In fact, 

 it might interest you to know that one of the parasites we brought 

 over for the Eurt)pean corn borer we expect to be a very efficient 

 enemy of the native cornstalk borer in South Carolina, and it is a t 

 parasite of the sugar-cane borer in Louisiana, and we have liberated 

 a large number of them in sugar-cane fields in New Orleans this past 

 year, and it will serve, possibly, a triple purpose we hope. 



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Mr. Anderson. Will you give us some idea of the prospects of 

 offsetting funds appropriated by the States next year? 



Mr. Walton. 1 can give you the figures on the amount that the 

 States furnished this year. Perhaps that would interest you. I 

 liave no (igures on what they may furnish next year. 



Mr. Anderson. All right, go ahead. 



Mr. Walton. The ^States furnishetl this year, for the cooperative 

 work, a total of $49,700. This is distributed as follows: Michigan. 

 $4,000: Ohio, $11,000; New York, $15,000; Massachusetts, $ir).00O: i 



New Ilainpshire, $2,000; Maine, $2,000; and N'ermont, $700. *| 



Mr. Andkrson. They do not seem to be very scared up there. ^ 



Mr. W.\lton. Kither that or they are very poor. | 



Doctor Howard. Massachusetts' is thoroughly scared now. 



Doctor Hau,. It had not been in \'(Mtnont until this year, and only 

 in the edge of New Hampshire. ' ^1 



Mr. Anderson. Is the amount re(|uested sufficient to maintain the v 

 w»)rk on vour pi-cscnt basis ( 



Mr. Walton, '^'cs; without the conduct of tlie thorough scouting 

 work in the Mis.sissippi N'alley States, which should be done to deter- 

 mine whether the insect is present or not. Tiiat we can not do with 

 the present fnnds. We hail to lU'glect that during the present liscal 

 year. 



