138 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEK ON AGRICULTURE. 
The CuarrMAn. Your total increase asked is $35,000. It says, ‘‘ of 
which sum $15,000 may be used at the discretion of the Secretary of ' 
Agriculture, for the purpose of extending the work of hybridizing 
cotton resistant to boll weevil.” 
The CuarrMAn. If we eliminate that and give you that under the 
special appropriation, your estimates would only show an increase of 
$20,000, would they not? 
Mr. Woops. That depends upon the interpretation the Secretary of 
Agriculture puts on this appropriation of $15,000. 
The CHarrman. If you were going to spend for the cotton boll 
weevil and that has been provided for by another appropriation, that 
would give you $15,000 of the $35,000 asked for?. 
Mr. Woops. We had not intended to apply $15,000 of this sum to 
the cotton work unless it should become absolutely necessary, unless the 
exigencies should demand it; but if that is the interpretation which 
the committee puts on that 
Mr. Gattoway. I think it would be perfectly satisfactory to the 
Secretary. That is, in laying out a plan of the work, this emergency 
work, of course, included that piece of work in it. 
The CHarrman. I remembered that, and that is why I put the 
question now. 
Mr. Woops. The way J have treated this is I have considered that 
$35,000 to be applied to the general investigations, leaving out entirely 
everything that is done on cotton in the Southwest. Now, if you 
desire to consider that $15,000 included in that, that it is the intention 
of the Secretary to cut that amount out here and increase the estimates 
for these things $20,000, plus $15,000 for the boll-weewil work, we 
have to do it from this fund. Then the amounts I have asked for 
would have to be rearranged or reduced in proportion. The increase 
that we asked the Secretary for was $100,000 for these lines of work. 
The increases we have asked for, even if we get $35,000 increase, will 
be needed, every cent of that. 
Mr. Bowir. They will be needed. 
Mr. Woops. It is absolutely needed—yes, to make the proper exten- 
ae of the work as the interests involved demand. But I will say 
this 
Mr. Bowts. Is it found that as you go along with this work and get 
it advertised that your demand for similar work in other localities are 
multiplied ¢ 
Mr. Woops. The demands increase in geometrical ratio. That is, 
we can not begin to meet the demands that come to us in these various 
lines. If we do a thing in one section of the country, everybody else 
is asking us to do the same thing for them somewhere else. 
The Cuarrman. A great many demands are foolish and trivial. 
Mr. Woops. I know they are. 
The Cuarrman. If you attempt to meet them all, of course you fail; 
and it is not a question of money—even with plenty of money you 
could not do it? ; 
Mr. Woops. No, we could not. Ican say this. I can go on with 
what I have now without any increase, work along and do as well as 
we have done the last year. 
The Cuarrman. My point is this. The estimates here say that you 
want $165,000, of which sum $15,000 shall be set aside for the purpose 
of extending the work of hybridizing cotton resistant to boll weevil — 
Mr. Woops. No; it says of which sum $15,000 may be used. 
