HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 165 
the clover work as pong some of our most important problems. The 
increase asked for for the coming year for alfalfa and clover is $2,000, 
and we ask for $1,000 increase in the Johnson-grass work. We have 
got to confirm our past experiments by further experiments on other 
soils, and we want to bring them to the farmer, and we want to get an 
implement that will remove these plants from the land. It is rather 
expensive to use the implements we now have. It would be very 
desirable indeed to put one man on each of the important grass prob- 
lems in this country, but that could not be done for less than $60,000 
a year. 
Mr. Scorr. I should think that the committee would be interested 
in knowing what your recommendation to the Secretary was. 
Mr. Sprutman. It was about $62,000. 
Mr. Scorr. How much of an increase would that be? 
Mr. Sprnuman. An increase of $36,000. But everybody has impor- 
tant work, and we asked for increases, and the Secretary allowed me 
$20,000. But I could use $250,000, and make big interest on every 
cent of that. Now, another line of work we are doing in our office is 
making some studies in connection with the marketing of hay. We 
have run onto some very interesting facts out near Kansas City, Mo., 
where we have learned of a firm that has a double compressing machine 
for alfalfa and compresses 3 bales into 1. That means the decreasing 
of freight on the hay; a great saving of freight. It means you can 
market hay twice as far from home as heretofore, and it would put hay 
into places where they now have to pay $20 a ton for it. 
ae i Are there many places now in the world where they 
pay that? 
Mr. Spirtman. There are places. We are shipping hay to Alaska 
and to Honolulu. And I saw the other day where the Government 
had contracted for a large amount of hay to be shipped from San 
Francisco to the Philippine Islands, and 1 would not be surprised if 
we should be called upon to send hay to Japan, or eastern China, or 
Korea, or Manchuria pretty soon. 
Mr. Bowre. You think there is likely to be trouble there? 
Mr. Sprutman. Oh, I am not looking out for chances to sell hay. 
We are making the farmer familiar with the fact that the hay can be 
put in that compressed form. 
Mr. Burteson. It does not injure the quality of the hay? 
Mr. Sriniman. No, sir. 
Mr. Havcen. Do you not think that the manufacturers of this com- 
pressor will make it fully known? 
Mr. Sprutman. When they hear of it. 
The Cuarrman. Do you not think that that question will take care of 
itself? You people are too prone to treat the farmers as ignorant and 
as babies. I do not know that any greater percentage of them fail in 
their business than in the dry-goods business or in manufacturing. 
Mr. Srruuman. Yes; but then it is easier for them to succeed in 
their business. Now, in the South, where the cotton-boll weevil has 
made an invasion, the farmer must do something else than produce 
cotton. He must produce hay; he must produce live stock. 
The Cuarrman. Have they taken to feeding live stock in the South 
elsewhere than in Texas and in that neighborhood? 
Mr. Sprrtman. No; unfortunately, not yet. On the Savannah 
River, the river between South Carolina and Georgia, there are farms 
