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something that keeps it in check. 1 want to send a man down there to 
see what it is. Investigation of this character we should be able to 
carry on. 
The Crarrman. You continue to do that now under your present 
appropriation ? 
r. Howarp. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. You will not stop your investigation at all? 
Mr. Howarp. No, I think not. I think we have enough to carry 
us through until the close of the fiscal year, unless we go into this 
extension of the cultural demonstrations, and that would be in the 
spring. 
The CuarrMan. So you would not need that money until April? 
Mr. Howarp. We ought to have it about the Ist of April, I should 
think. But these are the general headings, and the sum total is the 
one which I expressed to you a few moments ago, that I think we 
could at the outset use to advantage from $100,000 to $125,000 this 
coming fiscal year, with the proviso that we shall have this emergency 
fund in reserve. 
The Cuairman. You would want that right there in excess of your 
regular appropriation? 
Mr. Howarp. I would very much like that regular appropriation 
just as it is. 
Mr. Burteson. Doctor, if through your employees you have received 
any estimate of the damage which has been wrought in Texas during 
the current cotton year I would be glad if you would give it for the 
benefit of the committee. 
Mr. Howarp. Mr. Hunter, my chief man down there, who has 
gained in his three years’ work on this subject very intimate knowl- 
edge not only of the cotton-boll weevil, but of the cotton crop and 
conditions generally down there, estimates the shrinkage of the crop 
at 600,000 bales, of which he places 300,000 to the credit of the cotton- 
boll weevil, and the others as due to late planting, early frosts in north 
Texas, and the root-rot disease, which comes under Doctor Galloway’s 
scope. He therefore estimates the actual loss in cotton by the cotton- 
boll weevil at $15,000,000. 
The Cuarrman. That is, 300,000 bales? 
Mr. Howarp. Three hundred thousand bales. 
The Cuarrman. In the one State of Texas? 
Mr. Howarp. In the State of Texas. That is the only State in 
which it exists. 
Mr. Burwzson. I wili ask you, also, whether it is not a fact Mr. 
Hunter is a cautious, conservative man? 
Mr. Howarp. Most conservative. 
The Cuarrman. I think it is estimated that Iowa loses $15,000,000 
a year in hog cholera alone. 
Mr. Bowrr. In the case of hog cholera you have means with which 
to treat it. There seems to be absolutely no known method of hand- 
ling this question. 
Mr. Howarp. Fifteen million dollars in actual loss of course means 
a great many hundred thousand dollars’ damage to other industries 
dependent on this one. 
The Cuarrman. How do you figure that loss; on the value of the 
cotton bales or the money expended in cuitivation? 
Mr. Howarp. The actual loss on a bale of cotton, 
