870 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Mrap. Sixteen or seventeen. 
Mr. Haucen. We appropriate, then, about $4,000 for each State? 
Mr. Mean. Yes; but we are working in the whole country. It is 
not all being expended out there. 
Mr. Scorr. When you were before us last year you spoke of hay- 
ing an investigator in Egypt. Can you give us briefly the result of 
his work? - 
Mr. Meap. Yes. The investigation of irrigation in Egypt was un- 
dertaken because of the interest shown in the oldest irrigation country 
in the world, the completion of the two great dams there, and the 
widely existing desire for information on the part of people of this 
country as to whether or not we could not learn from Egypt some les- 
sons that would be of great service to this country. We went there to 
see just what lessons Egypt did have for us in our development. 
The results of that have been that the information that was gathered 
regarding the construction of those dams has been of great service to 
engineers. The facts that we learned regarding drainage and its 
‘influence on the removal of alkali, have served to show that drainage is 
a remedy for alkali, and some of the devices used in pumping can be 
used here. 
Those are the positive gain that come from it. So far as concerns 
the adoption of their methods, their laws, or their system of control- 
ling irrigation, they show we can not adopt them. That is a negative 
result, but it is still a valuable result because it tended to clear up 
what was a widely spread misconception in this country. 
There was one thing we did not anticipate that was an altogether 
unexpected benefit from that report. Ido not believe there has been 
a prominent cotton grower, or certainly a cotton factory, that has not 
applied for that report to find out what influence these improvements 
in Egypt were going to have on the cotton industry in this country. 
We had a gentleman from New York here yesterday to inquire about 
that matter. They wanted to find out how far the influence on grow- 
ing long staple cotton would go on prices in this country, and the 
report covers that ground. 
Mr. Brooxs. You spoke of the work you are doing in Wisconsin. 
Mr. Adams was not here at that time, and I would like to have you 
repeat it. 
Mr. Meap. I stated we were cooperating with the experiment sta- 
tion in Wisconsin in the development of methods for the irrigation of 
the cranberry beds of Wisconsin. That is, the devising of a system 
for the applying and removal of water. It does not simply mean the 
devising of a method of fixing the form and shape of ditches, but 
where you have got a large area of country where there is little fall, 
itseems you have got to fix a plan that a larger number of people can 
work together on, so that the removal of water from one man’s bed 
will not remove the water from the bed of the man below him. 
Mr. Brooxs. That work is embodied in Bulletin 1302 
Mr. Mean. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Apams. Are you still engaged in that cranberry work? 
Mr. Mean. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Scorr. You spent last summer in Italy? 
Mr. Meap. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Scorr. Could you tell us briefly the results that you think will 
come from that investigation? 
