418 AGRIcrLTrRAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



movcmont amounts to about MO. 000 or 250.000 head, that l)eing the 

 numher brouficht in tliere in the spring. The prospective movement 

 of grass-fat sheep from west Texas will be estimated in March. 

 Another report (^ the condition of Kansas Flint Hills and short -grass 

 pastures will })e made in April. An estimate of fat cattle movement 

 from California will be made in May- An estimate of number of 

 cattle which have gone from the Southwest States to Oklahoma. 

 Kansas, and other northern pastures will be made in June; that 

 will give an index as to what fat stock will come from those areas in 

 August, September, and October. Estimates of the probable number 

 of ifat and feeder lambs available for shipment from Arizona. Idaho, 

 Wvomins:. Montana. Colorado, and Xew Mexico during July and 

 August will be made in June; that will give an index as to the supply 

 of feeder lambs for the corn belt. 



A estimate of the number of grass-fat cattle coming from Montana, 

 Wyoming, and South Dakota, etc., to market. That will be a general 

 inquiry which will be made in July. An estimate of the calf crop of 

 Texasj New Mexico, and Arizona, which will be made in September. 

 I have already mentioned, I think, some of the other things we have 

 already started and I will not go into them again. 



COOPERATION WITH LIVE-STOCK ASSOCIATIONS. 



I have also mentioned the cooperation we have with the live-stock 

 associations, and I might sav that we have been directly helping these 

 associations. We are helping through our work to put the feeders 

 in the Middle West in touch with the people in the West who have the 

 feeders to sell. We are doing the work in this way: We get these 

 men to report to us and tell us how many cattle or sheep of different 

 kinds they have; we are turning that information over to the asso- 

 ciations and the associations are drawing it off and sending it out and 

 then handling the business themselves. Just recently we have helped 

 to locate pastures in Texas and some other areas for the cattle which 

 were starving in New Mexico. We have done quite a bit of that in- 

 directly and as an incident to our other work. We do not consider 

 it a part of our work but we help wherever we can. 



Mr. AxDERSo.x. The information is there, and there is no reason 

 why they should not have it? 



iJlr. Callandkr. That is true, and we are making the greatest 

 possible use of the information we are gathering. 



CnOP-WOHK srUDIKS. 



T hav(> not mentioncvl anything about our crop work, but that has 

 gone on about the same, and we are spending about the same amount 

 of money this year as usual. However, I might say this: We have 

 just j)ut into the Washington odice one of our experts from the field, 

 who lias made one of the best records lus to tlevising new methods and 

 better methods of croj) estimating. 



During the last year or two we have devised improved methods of 

 estimating aereage, which is our greatest prol)l(Mn m cro|> estimating. 

 If we can g<'t the acreage accuiately, the rest is rather easy. 



So we have, within the last year or two. been exj^erimenting, an<i 

 now we have woiked out two or three ncnv methods of estimating 





