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such menas Liebig, Humphry Davy, Bonssingault, Maercker, Lowes, 
and Gilbert, in Europe, and Johnson, Storer, and Hilgard in this 
country. They laid this foundation broad and deep, the foundation 
of agricultural chemistry; their work is spreading all the time into 
every variety of agricultural research. Therefore we want to claim 
from you some consideration for our line of work. We do it for 
less money, and yet it is work that stands nearer the very base of 
agriculture than any other. If we thought we were not getting help 
in other parts of the world we would be willing to abandon it, it is of 
such magnitude. If there were not all over the world many others 
who are going ahead on these lines and helping us in our lines of 
work we would be overwhelmed. 
We recognize this work everywhere as being of the most important 
character. We recognize the value of the work that is going on in our 
universities and our schools and colleges and agricultural experiment 
stations. We are only doing a little branch of it here. And yet people 
are looking to us for help, and we want to be able to help them by tak- 
ing up those lines of research which others may not be able to under- 
take; and we do this work with a due knowledge of our inferiority in 
many instances to others who are pursuing this plan, others who per- 
haps have superior opportunities, and many who have superior ability. 
But they help us and we try to help them. We help the men in the 
agricultural stations, and they write to us for this, that, and the other, 
and we write to them for their help. We have a sympathetic feeling, 
and we have their support in what we aredoing. They believe in what 
we ure doing and thie we are trying to do it right, and on just and 
right principles, and therefore they support us and believe in us, not 
only in this country but other countries. 
I have been in the Department of Agriculture twenty years, and I 
have seen it grow. I know what the opinion of the people of the 
world was about the Agricultural Department—about its scientific 
work—twenty years ago. Then there were two or three men only in 
the Department who had any world reputation at all. The late Pro- 
fessor Riley, the eminent entomologist, was one of those; and Professor 
Vasey, whose specialty was botany, and my predecessor, Doctor Collier, 
the Chief of the Division of Chemistry. Those were some of the few 
men in the Department who were then known throughout the world. 
And now where do we stand all over the world? Our men are recog- 
nized and their work is recognized everywhere and quoted in all the 
scientific journals of the world. 
Mr. Burueson. But you can not kill the boll weevil. 
Mr. Lamp. Can you come to Richmond and give us a lecture on this? 
Mr. Wier. I think I can do my most effective work in lecturing 
right here to this committee. 
Mr. Haucen. You spoke about road materials a while ago. Have 
you an estimate about the cost of building roads? 
Mr. Wier. No; that is Mr. Dodge’s work solely; I do not know 
anything about that work. I submit herewith a statement covering 
the whole conduct of the food inspection from the time of its inception 
on July 1, 1903, until January 14, 1904, inclusive. This gives the 
total number of invoices inspected; the total number found contrary 
to the law, with the kinds of each; the total of that number admitted 
with a caution on the ground of being first offense; total number 
admitted when the labels were changed to harmonize with the law; 
