34 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
weapons against speculation in wheat? We have the chinch bug and 
the grasshopper in the West. 
Mr. Burweson. Because it is not so devastating. 
Mr. Haucen. At timesit has been. Only a few years ago we were 
threatened with grasshoppers. 
The Cuarrman. The weevil destroyed the wheat crop of the Gene- 
see Valley, but we found a resistant wheat. 
Mr. Burueson. Permit me to suggest that there are other places 
where wheat could be grown, but if the agriculturist is driven out 
of the cotton business in the South, it will have just as injurious an 
effect upon the commercial interests of this entire country as it will 
upon the South, especially the cotton manufacturing interest of New 
England. 
Mr. Henry. There is no doubt about that. 
The Cuarrman. I do not think there is any disposition on the part 
of the committee to cheesepare on this thing at all. I would advocate 
giving the Department what it can judiciously expend. There is an 
emergency it will have to meet, and it is a question for the committee 
to decide what is the best way to meet it. 
Mr. Bowre. I simply made my interruption there for the purpose 
of calling attention to the fact that while the bill appropriates nomi- 
nally $500,000, only $250,000 of it is immediately available, and I was 
endeavoring to bring out from Doctor Howard the fact that when you 
add together his recommendation and that covered by Doctor Galloway 
it makes $250,000, or approximately the sum that this bill fixes to be 
immediately available. The other $250,000,which is recommended by 
the ies of Agriculture, is simply money that he can use if he 
sees fit. 
Mr. Grarr. I understand that simply $250,000 is available on the 
passage of the bill, but the whole $500,000 would be available during 
the whole fiscal year. Is that right, Mr. Chairman? 
The Cuarrman. Yes; that is right. 
Mr. Grarr. There is a marked difference between this bill and the 
provision which we passed in the foot-and-mouth disease bill. There 
we appropriated a definite sum, but we added ‘‘so much thereof as is 
necessary.” Here the whole $500,000 is separated. It is made a cot- 
ton fund, and it can not be utilized and is not available for any other 
purpose. 
Mr. Bows. Does it not say ‘‘so much thereof as may be necessary ?” 
Mr. Grarr. No; it does not. i 
_ Mr. Buruxson. I will say to the gentleman from Illinois that that 
is a : mere sn o detail. 
The Cuarrman. We have not yet reached that point. i 
Doctor Howard finish his ceniariee Peas eras 
_ Mr. Howarp. | have very little more to say except that the ques- 
tion of the continued work on the possibility of a remedy is a very 
important one, and we should be able to use a very considerable sum of 
money in that work the coming season, just as we have in the past. 
We want to experiment with every new idea that comes up. We want 
to make still further search for natural enemies. I have a man in Cuba 
engaged in that line. I want to send aman to South America in the 
spring to look up a reported enemy in some of the barrens in the lower 
Andes, where cotton ix growing and where they say the weevil exists, 
but is not very injurious. That means, obviously, the presence of 
