496 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



Mr. Anderson. Where is your nearest lives-tock station to Wood- 

 ward ? 



Doctor Larson. Tlie ones at New Iberia or i\j-dmore would be the 

 nearest, so far as dairy cattle are concerned. 



Doctor MoHLER. There are only about fifteen cattle there now, 

 are there not ? 



Doctor Larson. Fifteen head. This was a special item put in in 

 1921. 



Mr. Anderson. I never was for this farm, but it is there and unless 

 the work which would be done there anyway is done elsewhere there 

 mig^lit be some reason for continuing it. 



Doctor Larson. The particular region is different from the other 

 dry-land regions where we are worKing. They have a particular 

 situation in there, pasturing of their wheat crops and information 

 along that line is important at the present time, to know whether or 

 not it is advantageous to pasture their wheat crop in the winter 

 time — winter wheat — and that is the experiments we have there now. 



Mr. Anderson. Can it be maintained on its present basis for 

 $12,500? 



Doctor Larson. Yes, sir; it can be maintained for less if necessary. 



Mr. Anderson. That was your estimate for last year; S6,500 is 

 what you expended. 



Doctor Larson. That is what we are running on now. It can be 

 run on that another year. 



Wednesday, November 29, 1922. 



enforcement of the packers and stockyari>s act. 



STATEMENT OF MR. CHESTER MORRILL, ASSISTANT TO THE 

 SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND IN CHARGE OF 

 PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION. 



Mr. Anderson. W^e will next take up the item on page 348, for the 

 enforcement of the packei-s and stockyards act. 



Mr. Morrill. In onlcr to put ])efore the committee an accurate 

 statement and one of which it can make use, I have written out a 

 brief statement which brings the work of the packei"s and stockyards 

 administration up to (bite from the point where the fii-st annual 

 icport leaves off. 



general state.ment. 



The annual report has not yet been released for publication, but 

 the Assistant Secretary has authorized me to furnish tg each member 

 of the committee a copy of the annual report, whicb will show from 

 the beginning of the work under the packers and stockyards act 

 the methods of organization, the subject matter covered, the extent 

 of tlu! work that wr have to do, and what we had done up to the end 

 of the last fiscal year. The subsequent statement in typewritten 

 form brings it uj) j)ractically to the present time, and I will furuish a 

 copy of it to each member of (he committee. 



Now, at the j)rcscMt (inic we have 7'.> j)ublic stockyard markets in 

 71 cities in the United States that are subject to the jurisdiction of 



