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The best lamp you could get would cost about $60, which would be 
about $75 for each lecture outfit. 
Doctor Trur. We would not undertake to supply the lanterns. 
Mr. Lorimer. You would supply the slides? 
Doctor Trux. Yes. 
Mr. Lorimer. Then a sufficient number of slides, colored and uncol- 
ored, would cost about $10 for each lecture. 
Doctor Tru. Yes. 
Mr. Lorimer. How many of those would you want? How many 
sets would supply the country,:or the sections that you want to send 
them to? 
Doctor Truz. That is a matter we have not worked out at all. 
Mr. Lormer. Have you any idea? Would you want a dozen sets 
or a hundred sets? 
Doctor Trux. I should think one hundred sets would not be a very 
large number. 
Mr. Grarr. That would be $1,000. 
The Cuarrman. It would necessitate boxing and all that, so that 
they could be sent by express. . 
Mr. Lorimer. Ten dollars a set would pay for them. 
Mr. Haucen. The lamp would cost $60, did you say? 
Mr. Lorimer. He said he would not supply the lamp. 
Mr. Haucen. How would they supply the lamp? 
Mr. Lorimer. You could get a lamp all the way from $5 to $100. 
The $5 is about as good as the $100 lamp, if you put the right sort of 
light in it. Then Peapuess they would arrange their own screen. It 
would cost about $5,000 to get as many slides as you would want. 
Doctor Truz. That covers all in the appropriation in which there 
is any change suggested. 
The Cuarrman. Is there anything further you want to say to the 
committee of your own soon Doctor, that the questioning has not 
brought out? 
Doctor Trur.. I do not know that there is anything specially Mr. 
Chairman. Of course you understand that the next item comes under 
my jurisdiction as well? 
The Cuarrman. Nutrition? 
Doctor Truez. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. We will not go into that. 
The subcommittee (at 4.30 o’clock p. m.) adjourned until Friday 
morning, January 15, 1904, at 10 o’clock. 
CoMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 
January 15, 1904—at 10.30 a.m. 
STATEMENT OF S. R. BURCH, CHIEF CLERK OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF AGRICULTURE. 
The Cuarrman. We consider page 1 to-day of the estimates. Mr. 
Burch, looking down the list there we find the first new matter sug- 
gested is, ‘‘One solicitor at $2,500 per year.” 
Mr. Burcu. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Tell us what good reason the Department has for 
that? 
