98 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Gatioway. No; but the disbursing officer holds he has not 
authority to pay more than $480 where this amount is specifically men- 
tioned in the appropriation. 
The CHarrMan. The committee’s idea was that that was the initial 
salary. 
Mn GaLtoway. They are never paid more than $600 a year. That 
is the limit, and we would like to continue that. 
The CHarrman. That clause has been in the bill three or four years. 
Mr. Gatioway. Yes; that has been the case right along until now. 
The Cuarrman. Now at the end of that clause you put in some new 
legislation, ‘‘ one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, of which 
sum fifteen thousand dollars may be used at the discretion of the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture, for the purpose of extending the work of 
hybridizing cotton resistant to boll weevil. 
Mr. Gatioway. Yes, sir. I would suggest that I be permitted to 
run over briefly the increases I have asked for and then call upon our 
officers who are here with me for particular discussion. They are Mr. 
Albert F. Woods, pathologist and physiologist; Mr. William J. Spill- 
man, agrostologist, and Mr. William A. Taylor, pomologist in charge 
of field investigation, all of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
We have asked for our entire Bureau an increase of $75,000. These 
increases areas follows: Vegetable pathological and physiological inves- 
tigations, $35,000; or from $130,000 to $165,000. Pomological investi- 
gations, $10,000; or from $37,000 to $47,000. Botanical investigations 
and experiments, $5,000; or from $65,000 to $75,000. Grass and 
forage-plant investigations, $10,000; or from $35,000 to $45,000. 
Experimental gardens and grounds, $5,000; or $25,000 to $30,000. ° 
Arlington experimental farm, $10,000; or $15,000 to $25,000. There 
has been no increase recommended for the statutory salaries, nor has 
any increase been recommended for the tea culture investigations, or 
the purchase and distribution of valuable seeds. 
Mr. Woods, who is in charge of the pathological and physiological 
investigations, is here as I said, and our plan is usually to present the 
problems that we are at work upon, and to indicate what the increases 
are for in each problem. If that meets your approval I will ask Mr. 
Woods to enumerate the principal problems, and show where the 
increases asked for are to be added to the problems. 
The Cuarrman. Take the vegetable, pathological, and physiological 
investigation first. 
Mr. Gatitoway. Yes; on page 9. 
STATEMENT OF MR. ALFRED F. WOODS. 
Mr. Woops. Mr. Chairman, I have, in the lines of work covered in 
the physiological and. pathological investigations, 50 distinct problems, 
which we are now investigating. Some of these will require no 
increase 1n appropriation; others are practically finished, and the 
money will be devoted to other lines of work; and there are still 
others that it is very important to push along to a prompt conclusion, 
and these are the ones where we have pleanet to ask for such increased 
appropriations as the committee may see fit to allow, and which the 
ecretary has included in his estimates. 
The first item on which we would like an increase is the pathological 
laboratory, the technical laboratory to which the field men send their 
