AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL. 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS OF THE 
CoMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 
House or REPRESENTATIVES, 
Washington, D. C., January 6, 1904. 
The subcommittee met at 10.30 o’clock a. m., Hon. J. W. Wads- 
worth in the chair. 
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
The Cuarrman. Gentlemen, we have met according to agreement 
this morning to commence hearings of the Bureau chiefs of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture; and Doctor Salmon, of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, is here. 
STATEMENT OF DANIEL E. SALMON, CHIEF BUREAU OF ANIMAL 
INDUSTRY. 
The Cuatrman. Doctor Salmon, we notice in your appropriation you 
have asked for an increase over last year of $150,000, and we would 
like you, in your own way, to tell the committee the needs of this 
increase, and in what particular direction your work has increased so 
as to demand it, and to give us any other information which you. think 
will be valuable and will enable the committee to form an opinion on 
the matter. 
Mr. Satmon. Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee, the 
reason we have asked for the increase in expenditures is because the 
work has been growing in all directions. There is not very much that 
is special that we anticipate doing different from what we have been 
doing; but the number of animals in this country is increasing, the 
commerce of the country is increasing, the demands for meat inspec- 
tion are increasing all the time, and there has been a general growth 
of the co which requires larger appropriations in order to do it 
properly. 
The CHarrman. Have you some figures with you showing’ the 
increase in the exports? ° 
Mr. Satmon. No; I have not made any figures showing the increase, 
but I drew off some figures showing what we had been oing with the 
money. For instance, the Bureau has inspected during the year 1903, 
292,888 imported animals. That requires an inspection service along 
the Canadian frontier and along the Mexican frontier and along the 
seacoast. 
The Cuarrman. Has that increased any over last year or the year 
Be rk 
r. SALMON, ave not the figures for last year. I di } 
time to look them up. In fact, e did not oceur to a ant 1 eheld 
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