HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 79 
Mr. Wuitney. Better policy. 
Mr. ies It is a mere trifling cost to pay for the land $15 or $20 
a year 
Mr. Wuitnry. Yes; and we have never established any station, 
never had any permanent headquarters, no office, no fixtures. They 
will give us the land. 
gene Lamp. Have you not grown some tobacco in Hanover County, 
a. 
Mr. Wuirney. No; but there was some grown there. 
Mr. Lams. I saw it there. 
Mr. Wurtnry. We gave the directions for it. 
Mr. Lams. Can you tell me what the result was? 
Mr. Wuirney. They are fermenting that in Connécticut now. It 
is not through fermentation. The reports, so far as we have had 
them, are favorable. 
Mr. Bowrs. Have you gone far enough to feel a good deal of confi- 
dence in the proposition # 
Mr. Waurtney. I| think we are going to be able to grow a tobacco 
in this country that has a Cuban aroma. 
The Cuarrman. Now let us get along. You have accounted for 
$17,000 of your increase. What is your next step? 
‘Mr. Wurrwey. Mr. Chairman, we also wish to have two additional 
soil survey parties. The Secretary has not desired to ask the com- 
mittee for any large increase in the work of the Bureau of Soils, 
recognizing the liberality of the committee in former years, but the 
pres-ure on us for work in the soil survey has become very great. 
We have 20 parties now—— 
The CHatrMan. How many? 
Mr. Wuitney. Twenty. We have 20 parties now, and the Secre- 
tary desires to put more in the field, at a cost of $8,000. 
Mr. Bowie. Annual cost? 
Mr. Wurryry. Annual cost. 
Mr. Henry. For both parties? 
Mr. Wurtyey. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. $4,000 apiece? 
Mr. Wuirney. $4,000 apiece. Then there has been a great demand 
on us for increase and extension of the tobacco investigations. 
The Cuarrman. Before you leave the soil survey parties, are you 
not going along pretty fast in that work anyway, about as fast as the . 
country needs it? 
Mr. Wurrney. Mr. Chairman, we have about two years’ requests 
on hand. 
The Cuarrman. You will get requests enough. There is no doubt 
about that. : 
Mr. Wuitnrey. Well, most of them come from on the hill here. 
We have always received with due consideration requests from Con- 
gress, but I am free to say the work has been planned with absolute 
impartiality not only as regards the requests from Congressmen and 
other outsiders, but with regard to its equitable distribution over the 
country. 
Mr. Gare You take the advice of the State experimental stations, 
do you not? 
Mr. Wurtnery. Yes. 
