HEARINGS BEFORE OOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 63 
Doctor, if we can make this emergency appropriation available for 
use until the Ist day of July, 1905, that will answer your purpose ? 
Mr. Satmon. Well, I doubt if it will altogether, hecause there is 
only $250,000 left there. 
The CuatrMan. You are only asking for $150,000 increase, and 
there is available $250,000. 
Mr. Satmon. That is for two years. 
The CHarrman. Yes; for tbe balance of this year. 
Mr, Satmon. For the balance of this year and for next year. 
The Cuarrman. At that rate you will get more than $150,000. It 
will be for eighteen months. You can not do much in the sheep scab 
in this weather out West. 
Mr. Satmon. We have our inspection force out inspecting all the 
time. That expense is going on. 
Mr. Scorr. You are not expecting your increase of $150,000 to 
begin until the 1st of next July? 
Mr. Satmon. No. 
The Cuarrman. So that you are really better off under that act 
than you would be under the regular appropriation. As Mr. Scott 
a this increase of $150,000 would not be available until next 
July. This would give you what you might call an emergency fund 
to meet this emergency right now. 
Mr. Haveen. This will give $100,000 more than you are asking for. 
The Cuairman. Almost. The law, however, is that he is only to 
use it for this purpose, for the foot-and-mouth and other contagious 
diseases of animals. We avoid in that way incorporating it in the 
regular appropriation. This is an emergency. It may die out next 
year and you may have nothing to do with it, and if you once incor- 
porate it the appropriation will never go down. 
Mr. Satmon. Well, of course the sheep scab and cattle scab are 
not going to go down in a year anyway. 
The Cuarrman. No, it may not, but you can not tell. If you go at 
it with the vigor with which you went at the foot-and-mouth disease, 
you will probably stamp it out. 
Mr. Burueson. What affect does scab have on cattle, Doctor? 
Mr. Satmon. It reduces their flesh, and if it is allowed to go far 
enough, it makes them unfit for slaughter, and a great many of them 
are lost in the winter time. These parasites burrow under the skin 
and set up inflammation. 
Mr. Buruerson. J never heard that cattle were subject to that disease. 
Mr. Saumon. They are. 
Mr. BuriEson. We do not have any cattle scab down in Texas. 
Mr. Satmon. Yes, they are getting it now. 
Mr. Burueson. Is that coming from the North? 
Mr. Saumon. Yes. 
Mr. Burieson. Do you not think you had better quarantine against 
Northern cattle coming down there and giving it to us? 
Mr. Satmon. Well, we have quarantined them. Our regulations 
prevent the shipment of diseased cattle, but making the regulation 
does not stop it. 
Mr. Burzeson. That is true. 
The CHarrman. Now, Doctor, if that can be arranged in the way 
I have suggested, the committee understand that will be satisfactory 
to you. 
Mr. Saumon. I do not see any reason why it would not be. 
