The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
JEALOUSIES ARE CAUSE OF TROUBLE Colleges Find Fault With the Experiment Stations CAMPAIGNS ABANDONED Representative Watkins of Louisiana Speaks of Work of Boil WeeviI
 Determination and
 It's Failure.
CAMPAIGNS ABANDONED

Washington January 9.-Jealousies be- tween the agricultural colleges, experi- ment stations and scientists otherwise attached on the one hand and the de- partment on the other, have come to the attention of the House committee on agriculture sc forcibly during the hear ings being held on the agricultural ap- propriation that it's effect will in all prob ability be felt in no uncertain way on the finished bill. At the beginning of the hearings Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture, called the commit tees attention to the difficulties the de- partment was meeting as result of jeal- ousies of outside scientists He cited the work of the department in endeavoring to ascertain the extension of the tuber- culosis among cattle.
 The officials of the state of New ter sey was mentioned as an example.
 We have an association that is known as the Association of Agricultural asso- ciations," explained the secretary in ad- dition. There are a few of those men who are perpetually talking of what we are doing. To illustrate this very point, they are always raising committees to come and tell us what they think we ought to do and how much of the work ought to be left to them alone"
 Today the executive committee of the same association referred to by Secretary Wilson had it's inning. Those present were Dr. W. R. Jordan, director of the New York experiment station; pr. H. c. White, of Athens, Ga; Dr. W. E. Stone. president of .Perdue University, Indiana; and pr. J. L. Snyder, president of the Michigan Agricultural college of Michi- gan. They said in substance that the value of the soil surveys of the bureau of soils of the department of agriculture, a work over which there has been much dispute in Congress, was grossly eX- aggerated" not alone by farmers, but by officials of the department itself. The speakers claimed that the work had lit- tie value
 Furthermore. Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal industry, has informed the committee that owing to the attitude of local officials in the northern tier of counties in Georgia and the cattle owners there, he would prob ably be compelled to abandon the cam paign against the cattle tick in that state. When questioned concerning the opposition he said the antagonism arose out of polit- ical reasons. Much of the opposition" explained Dr. Melvin, "came from poor people who had but one or two cows and did not want to be bothered by having to keep them confined. They wanted them to run on the commons, and rather than have opposition the authorities failed to enforce their own ordinances"
 Another line of work In which there Is a lack of cooperation between the state and the federal authorities came to the attention of the committee today when Representative Watkins of Louisiana ad- dressed it in behalf of an increased ap propriation for demonstration work in raising cotton to resist the boil weevil. He said that although the state appropri- ated money for demonstration work the federal and state officials did not cooper ate. q have no hesitation in saying that there is no comparison between the work of the two governments, that of the de- partment of agriculture being vastly su- perior," testified the representative.