426 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
experimental stations and giving opportunity to men who could not 
complete their studies in any other direction; and, speaking on gen- 
eral principles (and I should withhold nothing from this committee), 
there is a little feeling that the Department is getting to have a good 
deal to say in the several States and Territories, and that it would 
probably be a little more agreeable to them if we would just turn the 
money over to them and not bother them with our opinions about 
things. 
I think that that idea is growing a little here and there. There was 
a little of it seen last winter at the meeting of the agricultural experi- 
ment stations and colleges. Some one said there was no difficulty at 
all; but some of our scientists, in going to some of the States, had not 
taken their hats off or made due deference to the people of the agri- 
cultural colleges and experimental stations. Some of our young peo- 
ple may be often a little bit bumptious. I think I detect the fact that 
they recognize the valuable work that is being done by this Depart- 
ment here. The cooperation is quite cordial, however, and we are 
having cooperation in as many lines as possible, to the end, of course, 
that: there will be better work done in all those institutions, by their 
own people, than they are doing now. Weare trying to be helpful to 
all of them, and in a great many directions. — 
We are trying to encourage them to start in the teaching of things 
that must be taught to a young farmer if he is to become a strong 
man, with the view, of course, of withdrawing that kind of help as 
soon as we get them to take vigorous hold of the work. That is the 
object of our teaching cooperation in these several States that is going 
on at the present time. 
With regard to our outside work, we have not done much of that. 
There is authority in the law to send men abroad and get information, 
etc., but we do not do very much of that. We do keep one man in 
London all the time in charge of our live stock, to look after them and 
see to it that they getfair play, and see to it that charges are not made 
of disease when disease does not exist, and so forth; and we are trying 
toreach out along this line and get information from the several nations 
of Europe with regard to their productions that come into competition 
in the markets of the world with our productions. 
That line of work, however, we will gradnally turn over to the new 
Department of Commerce and Labor; that belongs to them. You 
entlemen will find in your document room, I think—at least, if you 
40 not find them there, you will find them in our document room— 
some reports from Argentina. There is an interesting question before 
us now with regard tothe supply of meat to the world’s market. The 
Argentine people are our principal competitors, and 1 thought it wise 
to get facts regarding the development of their live-stock industries 
and their capacity to ship grass cattle across the Atlantic in either live 
or in chilled condition. And so we have something along that line. 
And still, speaking with regard to getting information from abroad, 
we expect to learn from the several countries, and from all of them 
as soon as possible, what their staple crops are. We receive that 
monthly from some of them now. Mr. Hyde went over to organize 
that work, and, unfortunately, the poor man took sick and has not 
returned yet. But he is succeeding along several of those lines. 
Now, take up the bureaus one after another-—— 
Mr. Grarr. Right. there, Mr. Secretary, I wanted to allude to the 
