432 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



reestablish the Federal inspection at Denver, which we had to take 

 out of the State after the war. Therefore, as I have said, we have 

 those six well-trjiined men, jind under them there are inspectors who 

 are inspecting: tlio cars from day to day. Tliose six men are travelinij; 

 over their territory all the time. The local inspectors under those 

 men inspect practically all the fruit and vegetables that come out 

 of Colorado and issue t'nited States certificates ahtng with the State 

 certilicates. 



The State pays us §s our share of the fee collected 25 cents per 

 car. The State of Colorado has inspected, or we have inspected 

 jointly with the State of Colorado, between the 1st of July and the 

 loth of November, 13,342 carloads, or a little more than one-third 

 of the total shipping point inspections in which we have participated 

 have been right there in the State of Colorado. The State, having 

 statistics of the shipments over a ptM-iod of yeare, knows just about 

 what it has to do. and can apportion its men in such a way that 

 they can handle the work. They can take men on and drop them 

 off so as not to have a large idle force. They have adopted fees 

 running from S3 per car on potatoes up to So on boxed iruits per 

 car. On that scale of fees, the work is entirely self-supporting, and 

 the 25 cents per car that they pay us returns to the Treasury just 

 about twice the amount of money that we are putting in the State 

 in the way of contribution to the salaries of those supervisors. There- 

 fore, we will come outof the shipping point inspection work in Colorado 

 with about from three to five thousand doUai-s a year above our 

 expenses. 



Mr. Anderson. Under this increased appropriation, then, you 

 would continue to make cooperative arrangements with the States^ 



Mr. Sherman. To some extent. Let me explain another cooper- 

 ative arrangement that we have with the vState of California, where 

 the work is entirely voluntary. There is no State law retjuiring 

 anybody to submit to inspection, although that is not exactly true 

 with reference to apples. They have a special mandatory law with 

 reference to apples, which makes inspection almost compulsory, or 

 the shippers think so anyway. Generally speaking, the inspection 

 in California is on a purely voluntary basis, and the State is out 

 soliciting business all the time for its inspection service. In Cali- 

 fornia, by the way, we inspected 9.407 cars between July 1 and 

 November 15, that being the second largest number of cars inspected 

 for any State. In California we also have an agreement that our 

 share of tlie lee is to be 25 cents per car. That State will make no 

 mspections witliout the participation of the Federal (Jovernnient, 

 ami we have made three men in California cooperative employees 

 and have contributed to their salaries. One of them is the chief 

 of the bureau of standardization of the State department of agri- 

 culture, and lie represents us in the supervision of that work. 



basically, tiiat is not a desirable arrangement, and we shouhl 

 have a man who is u full time and full salaried Federal man repre- 

 senting us m California in the supervision of that work, and working 

 jointly with the State men. The State men, of course, should be 

 paid entirely by the State. 



It is not a healthy arrangement to have the Federal supervision in 

 any territoiy entirely in the hands of a man who receives the major 



