HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 61 
Mr. Bowrg. Doctor, you ask for $150,000 more, and you say on the 
cattle scab you are now spending $500 a month, and you ought to spend 
several thousand dollars. How many thousand dollars ad you state? 
Mr. Satmon. I said I thought it would cost $5,000 or $6,000 a month. 
Mr. Bowrz. That would be an increase there of approximately 
$50,000 for that single purpose that you regard as necessary ? ° 
Mr. Satmon. Yes; but we are running behind this year some 
$60,000. 
Mr. Bowig. I say that accounts for $60,000 of the increase that 
you ask for right there? . 
Mr. Satmon. Sixty thousand dollars of the deficiency this year, and 
$65,000 or $70,000 deficiency on the cattle scab next year, makes 
about $125,000 or $130,000. 
Mr. Bowie. And there is pretty nearly all of your increase right 
in those two items? 
Mr. Satmon. Pretty nearly all, yes, sir; and of course the expenses 
naturally increase from year to year more or less. 
The Cuairman. Do you think you can get along with your work 
without the $150,000? 
Mr. Sarmon. I do not think we could, unless there is some other 
fund we can draw from. 
The Cuarrman. It is as broad as it is long as far as the Government 
is concerned. You would have to cut out some of your work if you 
did not get an increase? 
Mr. Satmon. Certainly. 
The Cuarrman. Or else go to the deficiency bill? 
Mr. Satmon. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. J can not understand where this increase of inspec- 
tion comes from, in view of the fact that we are not exporting much. 
Mr. Satmon. The expenses in the inspection of export animals is 
really a small part of the expense, you see. It is only $5,000 a month 
now. 
The CHarrMANn. That is $60,000. : 
Mr. Satmon. Sixty thousand dollars a year. Still, it is only $5,000 
out of $112,000 a month. Of course, when we started in a few years 
ago we had all small-salary men—$1,200 men—and it is necessary after 
they are on three years to increase their salaries a little. You can not 
always keep a force of the lowest grade of men and keep up your force; 
and with the salaries we are paying we are not able to get men as fast 
as we need them. 
The Cuarrman. Our country is just flooded with poor veterina- 
rians. 
Mr. Satmon. We are trying not to get that kind. 
The Cuatrman. Half of them do not know their business. 
Mr. Satmon. Of course there is not more than one in three of the 
men who take the civil-service examination who pass, although they 
graduate from a veterinary school. 
Mr. Burueson. Mr. Chairman, this emergency appropriation of 
last year is even broader than we thought it was. It is to cover ‘‘ foot- 
and-mouth disease and other contagious diseases of animals.” 
Mr. Bowrr. Is that the new deficiency bill? 
Mr. Burueson. Yes; that is what is going into the deficiency bill. 
Mr. Bowtr. To cover the boll weevil? 
Mr. Burzson. Yes. 
