HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 107 
The Cuarrman. How much are you spending on that? 
Mr. Woops. We are spending on fixing our new varieties and other 
cotton-breeding work, $8,500. 
The Cuarrman. You think that work is about finished? 
Mr. Woops. Certain phases of it. It means a great deal to the cot- 
ton industry. . 
The Cuairman. Do you think that it is about finished? You would 
not use the whole of that $8,000 from now on? 
Mr. Woops. No, sir; it would be diverted to other purposes. 
The Cuairman. Could not some of it be used for some of these 
increases you ask for? For instance, could not $4,000 be taken for 
resistance to the cotton wilt? 
Mr. Woops. No; not without detriment to the work that is still to 
be done. 
The CHarrman. Could not $2,000 be taken for the orchards? 
Mr. Woops. No; I could not reduce the amount we are spending on 
this cotton-breeding work without endangering the results already 
obtained. 
The Cuairman. But you say it is pretty nearly finished, although 
you are not sure whether it will last. You can notdo much work now 
until it is proven that it will last. 
Mr. Woops. If 1 said it was actually finished, I misspoke. I said 
we have procured the hybrids with the right qualities, but they must 
be tested for two or three years in order to jeune whether they 
are fixed strains or not; that is, whether they will retain the quality 
they now have. 
The CHarrman. Time alone will prove whether you have succeeded, 
will it not? You have done all the work that can practically be done, 
and time alone will prove whether you are right or not. 
Mr. Woops. Our work will be lost unless we can follow it up and 
pee seed that can be put into the hands of the farmers commer- 
cially. 
The Cuarrman. You do not propose to raise the seed for the farmer? 
Mr. Woops. Oh, no; as soon as we produce a seed that we are sure 
is going to retain its good quality, the cotton men themselves will grow 
the seed in sufficient quantities to meet the demand. 
The Cuarrman. Are they growing it at all now? 
Mr. Woops. No; we do not recommend to them to grow it, because, 
as I say, it may not be fixed, that is, retain the good qualities now 
combined in it by hybridization. 
Mr. Bowrg. You have not put any other seed on the market? 
Mr. Woops. No. Weare ourselves growing enough to make con- 
siderable tests this next season. 
Mr. Burzteson. Where? 
Mr. Woops. In South Carolina and throughout the cotton belt. 
Mr. Bowrsr. On rented farms, or how? 
Mr. Woops. We do it by renting an acre of land, or ageeing with 
the farmer to put the cotton in under our directions and cultivate it 
under our directions, and we pay for the actual cost of the work. 
Mr. Bowie. You get the rent fora nominal sum in those experiments ? 
Mr. Woops. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Who takes the cotton? 
Mr. Woops. In some cases we draw a contract which provides that 
we furnish seed and the grower furnishes everything else, and if a 
good crop of cotton is produced that pays for the work. In cases 
