490 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILI., 1924. 



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Practically the full amount of the appropriation is needed for con- 

 tinuing work, and if all of this S200,000 had heen spent for reimburse- 

 ments it would have been necessary to come to you for a deficiency 

 in order to carry out the other work. In other words, that §200,000 

 could not be ehminated from this appropriation and allow us to do 

 other necessary work. 4 



Doctor Ball. There was no appropriation; that was simply an 

 authorization to spend that much out of our regular appropriation. 



FOR ERADICATION OF THE PARLATORIA DATE SCALE. 



Mr. Anderson. Your next item is on page 338, eradication of the 

 parlatoria date scale. 



Doctor Marlatt. You will find a full statement of the work on the 

 parlatoria date scale in the explanatory statement which I have sub- 

 mitted. Briefly, this work has for its purpose the eradication of the 

 parlatoria date scale. 



This scale came in with date palms many years ago, before there 

 was any date industry and before there was any realization of such a 

 possibility and before there was any realization that there was any 

 danger from such an insect — in fact, it came in unknown and un- 

 heralded. It is now believed that the success of the date industry 

 in this country is dependent on the eradication of this scale: in other 

 words, if this scale persists and becomes a burden on the industry, 

 it will prevent its growth and establishment. The experts of tno 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, who have been especially interested in 

 the matter, believe that this scale can be exterminated. There were 

 some one hundred infested plantations at the beginning and there are 

 14 now. The work of eradication is being pressed to the fullest 

 extent of our means under the appropriation, and the outlook is very 

 favorable for the extermination of this scale. The department is now 

 supervising and making the importations of new material from 

 abroad; all of this new material must be safeguarded and held in 

 quarantine for a period of years before it is distributed to planters. 

 That is all covered in this work and the continuation of this appro- 



ftriation for the completion of this work is apparently essential for the 

 uture of the date industry — an industry for which the department is 

 peculiarly responsible and in which it is much interested. It has been 

 a department project from the beginning and is very promising. 



Tuesday, November 21, 1022. 



DEMONSTRATIONS ON RECTA ^rA'n()^ rHO.IECTS. 



STATEMENT OF DR. WILLIAM A. TAYLOR, CHIEF BUREAU OF 



PLANT INDUSTRY. 



I)()(!tor Taylor. Under the head of demonstrations on reclama- 

 tion pi-()jectH the agricultural develojiinent work on the (lOvernnuMit 

 reclamation projects is prosecuted. This constitutes the general 

 aj'riculturul extension work there, comparabl(> with the type of work 

 which within the States is carried on under the Smith-liever Act. 

 From tlio beginning this work has been maintained by the Federal 



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