424 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
impressed than ever with the value of that work when I consider what 
other countries say to us. Last week the British ambassador came 
and asked me if I could give him a man to send to Bermuda. They 
are destroying their soil over there in the growing of onions, lily 
bulbs, ete. I had to tell him we had such men, but while we had 
been trying to educate up to our own necessities, we had not enough 
to really do our own work in the Department and throughout the 
several States in the country. The minister from Cuba came and 
preferred the same request, and I had to give him the same answer. 
They want a subtropical botanist. 
We have such a man, but we need him in connection with our own 
work. The Secretary of War for nearly a year has wanted to find a 
first-class man trained particularly to go out to the Philippines and 
take charge of the work there under the Commission; but 1 have not 
been able to find a man that | wanted to recommend, and that can be 
spared, in the United States. The people in South Africa, in North 
Africa, and in Egypt, and throughout the world, you might say, are 
wanting men that we have been training. And some young fellows do 
go. Seven years ago, when this matter came under my attention, there 
were very serious losses in the Department of its strongest men. They 
were not getting as much pay as men of like intelligence were getting 
in other parts of the Government and in the States and other coun- 
tries, and so we lost heavily of that class of men. Since that time 
there has been a little increase in their salaries. : 
We paid in those days some $1,600 and $1,800 for our very best 
pathologists. That was all we were paying, and it was an easy matter 
for other people to take them away from us. We have lifted that up 
several hundred dollars and we are holding our men better now. The 
Department was never as strong to do work as it is now. It does not 
fanless much difference what emergency comes to the Department, we 
are ready now to attack it at once. We are organized. The work 
done in the New England States in regard to the foot-and-mouth dis- 
ease is an illustration; the work we must begin to do, and do at once, 
in South Dakota and Montana with regard to cattle scab, we are 
organized and ready to do and will do. It will take vigorous work 
for some time to clear out those States and prevent the diseases from 
spreading over the country. 
As to this boll-weevil emergency that has come upon us, we are 
ready; we have the men. We have the men to put at the head of all 
the several movements along those lines to help the southern people 
to,meet this emergency down there. We are equipped to do that kind 
of work, and I think I can congratulate the committee on that one 
result. We are paying them a little more money. Weare not losin 
them as we did. They are encouraged to go on with their severa 
lines of investigation. 
In continuing for a moment with regard to our educational work, I 
want to call your attention to what we are doing in several States. It 
has been the theory of the Committee on Agriculture of the House 
that we should cooperate with the States, and we are doing a good deal 
of that; in fact, we are doing a great deal of it. 
We are not only doing that, but we are helping institutions of edu- 
cation throughout the country. Seven years ago there was not a lec- 
ture delivered anywhere in the United States on meteorology. We 
have furnished the services of 14 gentlemen to lecture in universities 
