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kitchen the gas and electric-light bills amount to $90.a month. A part 
of our experiments have to go on at night. For instance, the drying 
of the feces and the urine necessitate the burning of gas all night. 
and this has added to our expense. While we have been as econom- 
ical as we could be, we do need a little more money for the ordinary 
work than we have had before, on account of these expenses and 
higher prices. I believe I have gone over almost everything. There 
are lines of work I have not mentioned, but they are old and well 
established. 
The Cnarrman. Are any of them finished? 
Mr. Witey. No, and they never will be finished, Mr. Chairman. 
Now, do not let us be deluded. You are going to have me with you 
right along, like the poor. We do finish certain lines of work—— 
The Cuarrman. For instance, your boracic acid. 
Mr. Wiiry. Yes, that is done and the experiments with salicylic 
acid will be done this year; and also the experiments with sulphites. 
We hope we will not have to take that up again; that it will be done 
so well that the people will accept it as final. If it is reviewed and it 
is found that we have made an error 
Mr. Brooxs. Have any such laboratory experiments been made 
elsewhere ? 
Mr. Witey. No, not to such an extent. Ido not claim that ours 
have been better made than any others; we do not claim any superior 
excellence. We try to do good honest work, but do not claim it to be 
done better than anywhere else in the world. We know that there 
are others doing better work along some lines; others who have better 
aaa for it; people who give themselves up more to one line 
ot work. 
Mr. Lams. Whom do you mean—French chemists? 
Mr. Winey. Both at home and abroad. Take Professor Atwater. 
His work in nutrition has been better than anything we could do 
along that line; that is, he has worked along a specialty in respiration 
calorimeters. We could not do that work; we do not have the outfit. 
Take the work of Professor Chittenden 
Mr. Lams. That is outside of your line. 
Mr. Winey. Professor Chittenden’s work has been largely on the 
same physiological problems that we have worked on. 
Mr. Ricwarpson. Whereabouts does he do his work? 
Mr. Wizey. At Yale University. He is the professor of physio- 
logic chemistry at Yale University. You would expect men working 
on special lines to do more than we can, because we are working on 
broad lines. Take a man who is director of chemistry anywhere and 
he has to take up a variety of problems, and he can not claim to be an 
expert in all those lines. It would be folly for me to claim that I am 
an expert on all these lines. A man in such a position might have a 
general knowledge, but he would not have the knowledge along a 
special line that a man would who was engaged in that particular work. 
We could not get along unless we had men who-devote all their time 
to special lines. : 
This work spreads out, and the work in agricultural chemistry, as 
I have told this committee before—and it is true to-day as it was then— 
is the basic work of all agriculture; all agriculture rests upon it. 
There is scarcely an agricultural problem you can bring up anywhere 
that does not touch agricultural chemistry somewhere or other. Take 
