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STATEMENT OF HON. HENRY C. WALLACE. SECRETARY OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Anderson. Gentlemen of the committee, the S«MTetAry of 

 Agriculture i.s hero thi.^ morninfi:, and I am sure the committee* will 

 be very i;lad to hear any statement that he cares to make with re»pecl 

 to the Budget or any items in it. 



Secretary Wallace. Mr. Chairman, I have not come with the 

 thought of takiiijj: uo nuich of your time. 1 gather that vour hear- 

 ings have been satisuutory with the various people from tlic d ; •• 

 ment. They have gone into the matters in which they are \>.. 

 larly interested and about which they are well informed with respect 

 to the details. I will not undertake to go into those nuitters, but 

 there are one or two sui)jects that I want to mention. The hr^' \^ 

 th(T reorganization of our extension work. I simply wish to say i: 

 we have not submitted that plan to you without very full considera- 

 tion of it oui-selves. That is to say, we have not casually looked 

 over the present organization that we have there and decided that a new 

 one would make it a lot better, and worked up a scheme from that 

 standpoint, but we have given time to this plan which is now sub- 

 mitted, and we arc very much convinced ttiat it will bring about 

 economv in the way of expenditure. It will not only result in econ- 

 omy but in very greatly increased efficiency in the administration of 

 the work. That is really the chief argument for it — the increasetl 

 efficiency with which the work may be conducted, rather than the 

 amount of monc}' saved, although there will be some very substantial 

 savings as the result of that better system of organization. 



I am very fully persuaded tiiat that reorg:uiizali«»n plan is a v • 

 one. You will notice that we are asking for two places with salai . 

 of $5,000, one for the director of the extension work, and the otl. 

 for •he chief editorial man. That proposed <lirector of extension 

 work would correspond to the director t)i scientific work and director 

 of reguliitorv work, which positions you have already authonzed. 

 Under tiie close personal ilirection of an efficient nmn, our extension 

 w^ork can be immensely strengthened. We have had the major 

 attention of such a man on that W(»rk during the past year. and. as a 

 result, I think we have made a very substantial improvement in the 

 administration of the work. That' has been done, however, largely 

 through the close personal attention given to it by Assistant Socretuiv 

 Pugslev. Much more could have been accomj)Hshed with tlr- *• -^ of 

 organization we are now asking, lie IkkI had large exp' •■ in 



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