HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 77 
Mr. Buriteson. Before you commence on this let me ask you this 
question. Recently I have been overwhelmed with letters asking me 
for a tobacco soil investigation in Lee County, Tex., and for tobacco 
experiments. What do these experiments cost? 
Mr. Wuiryey. A soil survey costs the Department $3.10 a square 
mile. That includes the salaries and all expenses. Lee County, I 
suppose, has about 600 miles. 
r. Bururson. I do not know. 
Mr. Wurryey. It would cost about $1,800 for the soil survey work. 
Then a tobacco party costs about $5,000. 
Mr. Bowrsn. Additional? 
Mr. Wuiryey. Yes. 
Mr. Burueson. A year? 
Mr. Wuityry. Yes. 
Mr. Burreson. If railroad transportation were furnished, could not 
the same expert look after the investigation at Nacogdoches and a 
number of other points? 
Mr. Wurtney. I was going to speak later about tobacco investiga- 
tions, but as this is interesting here I will take it up. 
Mr. Burueson. I do not care to precipitate it. I thought as you 
were on that subject now 1 would bring it to your attention, but I will 
bring it to your attention a little later on. 
Mr. Wurtyey. I will just explain now that it is our purpose to have 
a party of four men with headquarters at Nacogdoches this coming 
year. If the results of the tobacco experiments that are just being 
finished, represented by these cigars, are satisfactory, and the Depart- 
ment feels justified in stating that a tobacco of good quality can be 
grown on those soils, the Secretary will authorize the giving of advice 
to farmers and we shall have our own little experiments at Nacogdoches 
on 6 acres, three on each kind of soil, and an experiment at Wood- 
ville, which will be grown by our own people, and then we will have 
Mr. Hinson, the man in charge of that work, visit different parts of 
the State and advise as to the soe of tobacco, provided it is grown 
on the soils that we approve, that we think there isa chance of success 
on. That meets your request, I think, that he will be able and directed 
to advise farmers who are intending to grow tobacco on the Orange- 
burg sandy loam or the Orangeburg clay. 
Mr. Bururson. Is Mr. Hinson a soil expert? 
Mr. Wurrnry. He is a tobacco expert. 
Mr. Burueson. He is not a soil expert? 
Mr. Wurrney. No; they have nothing to do with that. That is a 
different line of work. 
Mr. Lever. You have never grown any of this tobacco in Orange- 
burg County, have you? 
Mr. Wurrnry. Yes; we have done that, but it is not so far ahead 
in the bulk. It was sent down to Texas and was delayed on the road, 
and it is about two months behind this, so that we can not tell what 
the result will be. : 
Mr. Scorr. What arrangements do you make about these tobacco- 
growing experiments? Do you rent the land or is it given to you free 
of cost, and do you do the planting and curing and cultivating? 
Mr. Wuirney. It has been furnished to us free of cost, and the 
owners have, in most cases, furnished the teams, paid for the fertili- 
