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that time, if the funds are availubk*. we would like to pay them not 

 less than $100 per month, and in some cases it will be a little bit 

 more than that. All of them will be tooporative men. 



Mr. Anderson. That is, partly paid by States ? 



Mr. Tennv. In some cases partly paid by States and in some 

 cases partly paid out of inspection fees that are collected by hay 

 exchanges. 



Mr. Anderson. I do not see how you can charge an inspection 

 fee on the side of the Government where the men are partly paid by 

 the Government and partly paid by the States. 



Mr. Tenny. The way it is handled is that the fee will be charged 

 and collected through the hay exchanges, and the part of the salary 

 that is not paid by the Federal Government will be paid out of those 

 fees. In addition to the amount that will be paid these men out of 

 the fees, a part of the fee will also come to the Federal Treasury to 

 cover the approximate cost of the service to the Federal Treasury. 

 We will have to pay our proportion of the salaries out of the appro- 

 priation, but out of the fee will come into the Treasury an amount 

 approximately equal to the amount paid from the Treasury. 



Mr. Sherman. Gf course, if such agreements are made, you can 

 provide for the reimbursement of the Treasury with much more 

 accuracy than from the fees, which, in turn, are dependent upon the 

 flow of 'business. We have a rather profitable arrangement that I 

 would like to explain to you a little later with reference to shipping- 

 point inspections of fruits and vegetables, in which the States guar- 

 antee to us a return of the salaries that we have to pay. 



POULTRY AND EGG WOUK. 



It is the purpose to allot $8,000 of this increase to poultry and vg^ 

 work. Mr. Tenny has spoken to you with regard to the progi-ess 

 that has been made in the develoj)ment of ogs^ standarrfs. The 

 people who are handling tiie poultry and o^^i; work realize that it is 

 of very little use to recommend t^gg standards or grades unless you 

 are ready to put on the inspection service and demonstrate whether 

 or not they are being used and lived up to. If you simply recom- 

 mend certain grades, they will be adopted in both the western markets 

 and the eastern markets, but you will still have those questions and 

 difl'erences of opinion between shippei"s and receiACi's until you put 

 on Federal insjK'ctoi-s. Therefoi'e it is expected that if this increase 

 is granted ab(»Mt ."§S, ()()() of it will be used for j)oultrv and egg work. 

 That work will be done in the big cities, like New York, Boston, 

 Philad('lj)iiia. and Ghicago. In New York City, we will say, there 

 will jjrobably be a certain innuber of ins|)ections of live poultry. 

 They will have the same old (juestions that have been agitating the 

 poultry trade, of the overfeeding of poultry before nutting it on the 

 market. 'I'hev ai'e still having a gi-eat deal of diliiculty with that, 

 and they want Federal iiis|)ection to determine whether or not 

 poultry arrives in a proj)er condition to be placed upon the market. 



iN.sPErrioN WOUK i\ i lu its wh vk<;ktahi,ks. 



Gut of the .SlOO, ()()() in«ica->c askcil Tor, it is proposed to allot 

 $.'>2,()00 to the e.xonnsion of the inspection work in connection with 

 fruit and ve«jetal)les. I have just reviewed the work to date. .Vs 

 it has been nandh'd in the past, the inspections have grown from 



