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14,()()() rars in tlir (ii-s( yvnr up to 31.207 in iIh' pii.st yoar, or in the 

 y«'iir wliicli riMUMl on .liiin' 'M) lust. 'Plir <'ilv work is riiiinin;; jiwt 

 iil)(»ul llic same, t)!" at tin* uvcraijr ratt* of last yrur, for tin* frw iiioiiihM 

 we liavr passt-d through of tliis lisrnl Vfur. Tin* only now work 

 that lias (M>nio on us in tiu* citirs is tlio iiispiTlion work that we 

 liMvr h«M'n askcil to (1(» for the Army and Navy hospitals iti the 

 \iciiiily (»f the port of Nrw York, and \vr an* now just (-oiiii)lflin^ 

 an arran<;(>niont to inspoct all the fruit and v«>i;clal>l«> supj>li(*s for 

 the (IiM't under the control of the Shippin<; lioanl. which will involve 

 the cnii)lovincnt of one or two additional men in New Y«irk. How- 

 ever, tliey will he paid for hy transfer of funds from the Shipping 

 Board's appropriation to ours, just as is done in the vnsp of the 

 work that we do for the Navy. We have ei^ht men rmw ^jivinjj 

 full time to the inspection t)f siipplit's for the Navy, and the salarioH 

 of those men are reimhursed to us hv a transfer of fumls from the 

 Navy appropriations to ours. For that reason, if you look ut our 

 pay roll, it mi^ht appear (hat we are t-arrvinj; n rather larj^'e force 

 for the amount of inspection work we are doin^', hut a numher of 

 those men are really Ixmii*; paid hy the Navy, and they constitute 

 no drain upon this af)propriation. 



dust at the present time there is an extra (iemaiHJ m the poit of 

 New York on the part of expoiters f(»r the inspection of commodities 

 ^oin^ ahroad, particularly of apples, which work we liave not heoJi 

 al)le to do, hecause of our inahility to put on any more men. The 

 inllexihility of the service is a verv serious liandicap in some respects. 



Last \ear, as you aie aware, tin' House aineiMled the hin^^ua^e of 

 tliis item, providiiij; that inspections nii^ht he made of those products 

 when ofTered for interstate sliipment, or when received at such im- 

 portant central mark«>ts as the Secretary of Agriculture may from 

 time to time tlesi»riiate, etc. I am not sure wliether the committee 

 realizes just what they <li(l to us when that chan«;e in lan^ua^'e took 

 j)lace. or whether they thou«rlit they would multiply our held hy It). 

 20. or 100. As a matter of lact, you multiplied our field very nearly 

 «>ne hundredfold, hut as you know, there was no increase made in 

 our appropriation to meet it. 'I'herefore, we have lind the delifjhtful 

 outdoor sport of seein<]; 1h)W many hricks could he made witlu>ut 

 straw. You may he interesteil to know that from the 1st day of July 

 to the loth day of Novend)er we Iiad inspected at shipping: points 

 35,900 cars of Iruit and vegetahles, of the a^'grejjate value of some- 

 thing over ?24,0(i0,0()0. Tliat is to say, we liad inspected more cars 

 at the sliippin*; points hetween July 1 and No\ emher lo than w»« luid 

 inspected in the course of the entire preceding; hscal year. 



Mr. Andkilson. How did you do it ( 



Mr. SiiKH.MAN. On the 11th day of June 1 >larted myself on a tour 

 of the State ca()itals, visiting; the commissioners of a«;riculture and 

 the people who have authority to do those things in the States, anil 

 also those who have some money to spen«l. antl especially tlmse 

 who have authority to use the money that they may make in such 

 enterprises. 1 was fortilied hv a series of o|)inions from the solicitor's 

 ollice as to what sort of hargalns we could enter into uiuler that item. 

 I had a series of conferences with commissionei-s of ajrriculture. the 

 market men in the States, and a «;ood many with the attornevs 

 general of the States, to see how we could lit the .State law into tho 

 Federal law and work up a cooperative agreement under which thiii 



