140 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
STATEMENT OF MR. W. A. TAYLOR. 
Mr. Taytor. I will say in introduction, to refresh the minds of the 
members of the committee as to what was said last year, that the work 
in pomological investigations is divided into two distinct phases. One 
of those is the work here in Washington, the work which is done at 
the Department and which is the outgrowth of a very large corre- 
spondence with fruit growers respecting the identification of specimens 
of fruits, the determination of the recommendations of varieties for 
planting in different jae of the country, all of which is continuous 
through the year and which occupies a large part of the time of the 
Pomologist and of the regular clerical force of the office. 
~ Jn addition to that line of investigations there was set off at the time 
the Bureau of Plant Industry was organized a line of field investiga- 
tions, and this line of field investigations comprised, first, the efforts 
to increase the export trade in fruits; second, the investigations of the 
storage of fruits, particularly, so far, refrigeratory storage of fruits— 
those two, the export work and the storage work, being very closely 
related. They depend upon each other, and are carried forward in 
parallel lines by interchange of employees and by exchange of money, 
as the exigencies occur or require. 
Next, a line of viticultural investigations, largely restricted to the 
Pacific coast, and devoted to the determination of the adaptability of 
the resistant vine stocks in various soil types of the important vine- 
yard regions of the Pacific coast; and, secondly, to the determination 
of the congeniality of the grapes that are to be grown on these stocks 
to these stocks. It is a compound problem. 
Next, a line of fruit district investigations, in which, by actual 
inspection and examination of trees in orchards in the important 
regions, we are endeavoring more closely and more accurately to out- 
line the commercial fruit districts of the country—the soils, the eleva- 
tions, the exposures—where particular types of fruits can be grown to 
best advantage in a commercial way. 
And, lustly, a group of miscellaneous problems, such, for instance, 
as the investigation of the cultivation of the pecan in the South; the 
investigation of stocks adapted to particular regions for the cherry, 
which fails at present in certain large fruit-growing section of the 
country, apparently because the stock upon which the nurserymen are 
grafting their young trees is not suited to the soil conditions of those 
sections of the country; and a number of other problems of that sort. 
Now, in this analysis we have divided the general investigations into 
three heads. First, the administrative work, including salaries, includ- 
ing the salary of the pomologist and laboratory head, including salaries 
and materials, miscellaneous expenses, and reserve fund. Under these 
i ga oe are allotted as follows: To the administrative branch of 
the work, $9,620; to the laboratory branch, $5,720; to miscellaneous 
expenses and reserve, $1,500; making a total of $16,840 for the general 
investigations in pomology. 
For the field investigations in pomology, fruit making and storage 
together, which we handle practically as a unit, $12,300; viticultural 
investigations, $3,750; fruit district investigations, $3,000; miscella- 
neous pomological problems, $1,110. The total for field investigations, 
$20,160, as against $16,840 for the general investigation. The total 
making up the appropriation for this year, $37,000. 
