420 AGRlCULXrRAL APPROPRIATION BlIJ., hrli. 



INCREASE USED FOR LIVE-STOCK WORK. 



The increase for tlie coming year will be used im part to strengthen 

 the livestock work. The (livision simply can not begin to meet 

 the demands on it for livestock information; it is expensive to get 

 railroad! data and other information of that kind, and we want to 

 put on about two or three more men to strengthen the service in the 

 Corn Belt States. We were only able this year to put on two live- 

 stock men in the Corn Belt besides the regional men in Chicago. 



We have allowed extra money for clerical help and the travel 

 expenses of our Corn Belt men but we had not enough money to put 

 on more assistants there this year. There really ought to be four 

 more men in the Corn Belt States. Another man is needed in Texas. 

 We find that one live-stock statistician, with an assistant, is not 

 enough by any means to cover the State of Texas. There are two 

 or three well defined live-stock areas there and we want a new man 

 to put in the Panhandle area, and at the same time have him cover a 



Sart of Oklahoma. We also need a man in the western part of 

 ebraska and South Dakota, as well as eastern Wyoming, to help 

 the regional man there So we are estimating we will use about 

 $14,000 of this, if we get this increase, on that part of the work. 



We can not undertake dairy work this year because the funds will 

 not permit it. To start on a project of estimating milk production 

 and changes in dairy needs would take as much more monev, probably, 

 as it would to handle the meat animals, to which we are limiting the 

 work at the present time. An increase of S 11, 000 is asked for to 

 strengthen the Washington office. We have put one more man in 

 this year, but our weakness, if we have any — and, of course, we all 

 have that — is that our W^ashington office has not had enough trained 

 statisticians to handle the information that comes in from the field. 



Mr. Anderson. Do you mean you want these men to act as 

 interpreters ? 



Mr. Callander. I mean that we need additional men to interpret 

 the information that comes in, to study its weaknesses and improve 

 the methods of getting it. We need a cotton statistician in the 

 Washington office who will help and who will study new methods of 

 estimating cotton, which is a tricky crop and it is very hard to get 

 good results. He will {2;ive his whole time, practically, to a study of 

 whit we have been dom^ in estimating and to the devising of new 

 methods. He will also visit our various cotton States and help the 

 field men improve their estimates, and he will also be in a positicm 

 to furnii^h aiiylhiiui; iji the way of cotton statistics which may be 

 needed at any time. 



Mr. Anderson. What do you do in securing statistics and what 

 is the diderence in what you do and what the Department of Com- 

 inerce does { 



Mr. Cali ANDER. The Department of Commerce simply reports 

 the amount of ((ttton ginned. They begin in September and period- 

 ically iiiak*' ref)orts until the 1st of December. They have paid 

 reporters who go to the gins and report the actual number of bales 

 ginned. Wc begin estimating in rhine; we estimate the condition on 

 the 1st of .June and then on the 1st of July we estimate the acreage 

 of (•otlon. 



Mr. lirciiANAN. Do you not start in by estimating the acreage 

 planted in cotton i 



