150 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
part will be the placing of a man there who shall take up that problem 
and work it out, and the maintenance of that man. 
The CHarrMAN. Have you not some man here now that you could 
send there under your lump sum? 
Mr. Taytor. No, sir; we are working day and night now in our 
effort to carry things along. 
Mr. Bowiz. Are there any Government employees working at night 
except members of Congress # 
Mr. Taytor. I think you will find them in the Department of Agri- 
culture. e 
Those are the two lines for which we ask particular consideration at 
this time. There is the general line of detailed storage investigations 
that the storage men of the country, the American Warehousemen’s 
Association in particular, have urged ustotakeup. They have followed 
the work; they call for addresses and reports, and have copies of these 
bulletins to distribute to their patrons who are storing with them. 
They desire very much that we shall take up and go thoroughly into 
the questions of humidity in storage and of actual effect of freezing 
upon these things and the effect of thawing out, so as to restore the 
product to wholesome condition after it has been frozen. That can 
only be taken up in a cold-storage laboratory. That the Secretary 
has not asked for in the estimates, and we do not present that at: this 
time; but it isa line which, we believe, will yield far-reaching results, 
not only to the storage industry but to the fruit-planting industry, 
because every one of these things, as it affects the grower, has its 
reflex influence upon his methods of cultivation, the varieties he grows, 
the way in which he picks and ripens, the stage of ripening he permits 
the fruit to reach before picking; and those are the two that we especially 
desire to pursue further. 
I have a good deal of other matter, but that is the gist of it. 
The Cuatrman. Anything further you would like to say —— 
Mr. Taytor. I think perhaps that is sufficient, unless there is some 
other particular point that the committee would like to inquire aboutit. 
I should say this: That in the case of our viticulture, which I men- 
tioned, we have established in California certain experimental vine- 
yards in which we are testing the grape stocks which are known to be 
resistant to the phylloxera insect that troubles them, and in which we 
are endeavoring to determine the best vines for the particular kind of 
soils. It isa very important point. It has been found in Europe to 
be one of the most important things that has been given a great deal 
of attention. But their work has not been particularly important 
because they have been trying soils that are resistant to lime, whereas 
our soils on the Pacific coast are but few of them limy. 
In some cases the soils there have an excess of water. That is in 
regions that are irrigated. In other cases we must get vines that are 
resistant to drought, and those are found on hillside locations, and that 
at the same time are sufficiently congenial to the important types of 
grapes that are to be grafted upon them, as you will icienet that 
it 1s necessary to provide the grape you desire to grow with a different 
set of roots from those that belong to it, in order that it may resist 
the insects and endure long enough to produce commercial crops. We 
are doing that work in cooperation with the experiment station in 
California, although it is necessary for us to pay the entire expendi- 
ture. Still we have their cooperation. 
