82 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
It is an estimate that we have made as to the amount of money that 
should be used in increasing the salaries of the soil-survey men and 
the tobacco men—principally field men. 
The Cuarrman. How much are they getting now? 
Mr. Wurrney. The average salary in the Bureau of Soils is $1,100— 
slightly over. . 
The Caatrman. Would that be the see of the soil survey, too? 
Mr. Wurrney. That is the average of all. . 
The Cuarrman. Would it be the average of the soil survey? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes; I expect the average would be the same. As 
a rule these men should have an increase of about $200 a year; not 
always that much, but men who give promise, who are getting along 
well—men who would otherwise be attracted outside—we have to 
advance at the rate of about $200 a year. Now we have 42 men in 
the soil survey and we have 10 or 12 men in the tobacco. The 
tobacco men are in great demand, and it is only by my own personal 
effort in urging them to stay with us until these different lines are 
carried out that we are holding those men, because there is a place 
for them at all times in commercial work. 
The Cuarrman. As I have often said to the committee, however, 
they are not lost tothe country when they leave you. I know the 
Department is very loath to lose these men, but after all they go forth 
doing good to the country. 
Mr. Wuirney. Yes; but they are lost to the Department. 
The CuarrMan. But not lost to the country. 
Mr. Wuirney. They are lost to the country in this respect, Mr. 
Chairman. Mr. Floyd, who was the expert of the Department until 
two years ago, was working for the country, for the people. He 
gave his energies for the people, for Virginia and for Tennessee as 
well as for Connecticut ni for Texas. Now he is in the employ of a 
company in Connecticut. His services and his talents are for that 
company. He is not allowed to give information to outsiders that 
would help them in their competition with this tobacco company. It 
isatrust. They have bought him up and he can not give this informa- 
tion to the country. 
The Cuarrman. Was not the information he possessed imparted to 
your people at all? 
Mr. Wurryey. The country benefited by it. We are benefited by 
it. 
The Cuarrman. According to that, he is the only man, then, in 
America who can do this work. You come back to the proposition 
you made a moment ago about Mr. King. 
Mr. Wuirney. But, Mr. Chairman, it is a very customary thing 
for men to be retained in positions. It is the practice in the House, 
I believe, to retain chairmen in their positions, because they are 
familiar with these matters. 
Mr. Scorr. Where would the men naturally go if they left your 
soil-survey work ? 
Mr. Wuirvey. The men from the soil survey would go the colleges 
and experiment stations. 
The Cuarrmay. There they would be teaching the youth of the 
country ? 
Mr. Wauitney. Yes. 
