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iNCRKASKi* Arrnoi'KiATioNs rem krahh'atiov uohk 



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Voiir <"linir(iuili ask«Ml a <|ii 

 cronsin«:i: ju)i)r()|)ri.ili<)ns for pests mul <li- i 



whiit the Srrrrtnrv sa'ul in iT{janl to th«» opportunity of c\ 

 these ovcrhends tlinf nrr now uttiiekinj,' n^'riniltiin-. n- 

 that Tin(|uosliorial>ly will he hrou^lit into lliis eoiinti' 

 tlu' ciroits wp nuikr in tho fnturo. It sh«»nM also he 

 while yon arc considerinp thoso thinpi, that that money ia wonder- 

 fully \M'II rxprtidcd and that while it is a splendid irr 



appropriations must not he nnide at the expense of th .,.. 



of the denartnu'tit. which makes such thinp< ns that po-sihie . 

 future. Vour harherry eradi<'ation, which was referred t<», hnn Iktii 

 a woiKJeiful example of what a small amount of ip ' 



rcseanh has l)e('n ahle to accoinphsh in the wav of < .. 

 reHr>f to the agricultural people, nut the whole )iar!)erry e 

 eampaiijn could not p()ssd)ly have heen undertaken unles 

 searcli had heen earned on. So practically every eradi * un- 



nai<:^n is tlie residt of research that must he earned on ; .nd. 



Then wlien it comes to a point where yon can eradicate a. pest or n 

 (lisease, the people arc readj' to support tlie method pre 



Take tuhercidosis eradication. Tliey are putting: uj* >•• "nO.fXX) 

 and SS, 000, 000 at this time for tuberculosis eradication without as 

 much effort on the part of our department or of your committee as 

 there was to get ?2(),00() to investigate the possil)ility of tuhereulosis 

 eradication some seven years ago. 



So 1 want to emphasize at this time that this is a ven*' mu<*h reduced 

 budget, reduced as compared with last year and verv much re<luccd 

 as compared to the growth of work in agri<ulture in the Nation — that 

 is, every 3ear aCTicultural production is increasing; it is increasing in 

 complexity, and it is increasing fi*()m the standpoint that each addi- 

 tional law passed by Confess looking toward the relief of agricul- 

 tural conditions has placed added duties on the department, so that 

 at tile same time the budget of the department is increased it is 

 increased by the addition of new duties much more largely than it 

 has been bv an increase of work in connection with the hues already 

 being carried on. So in this budget we have tried all the way 

 through, by as much reorganization as possible, to emphasize the 

 research feature, to hand over to the States the demonstration and 

 extension work and to keep that which is absolutely essential f<»r 

 national development in the way of maintenance of n'«;cairch intact. 

 While this does not represent a l)ud<;;et comparable with the develop- 

 ment of agriculture us a whole or the complexity- of agriculture as a 

 whole, it does represent what the conditions at this time warrant. 

 I think that is all 1 have* to say. 



Mr. Lee. You ha^ e discovered that the barberry is not the only 

 source of rust, have you not i 



Doctor Ball. No: it is just the contrary. Tiiey iiave alway> he- 

 lieved, up until within the last 10 yeai-s, that while the rust went from 

 the wheat to the barberry and back to the wheat that it aJso lived 

 over the winter and was able to go right from the wheat to the wheal, 

 so that the barberry was not necessary. The fundament id discovery 

 which was made was that in the northern part of this country, from 

 Kentucky and Kansas north, in the great wheat-growing region, this 



