Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-20

product is now controlled by Japan csc monopoly, will have to be re. duced by 75 per cent.
 Little further work can be done or vegetable oil crop investigations.
 All investigations of the problems of temperature, moisture, soil, ail and other physical factors in rela- tion to plant growth must be com. 1 pletely discontinued.
 Cooperative work in the control of contagious abortion of cattle will have to be abandoned in New York and Texas
 Investigations of animal tubercu- losis, anthrax and various other dis eases, as we'll as studies of stock poisoning by plants, will be greatly re. duced.
 ! Forest insect field stations at Col. orado Springs, Col, and Ashland ! Ore, and the sub-station at Chico Cal, will be abandoned, and the work at the field laboratory at Los Gatos, Cal, seriously curtailed.
 All work in the northeastern Uni ted States on investigation of insects injurious to forests, forest products and shade trees will be discontinued 1 Work in the southeastern states realting to insect infestation of cut timber and forest products will be abandoned.
 The assistance given the National Park service, the Forest service, and owners of private woodlands in in- sect control will be reduced. 1 The work toward controlling and eliminating the sweet potato weevil, which was making good progress to- ward complete elimination of the pest, will have to be greatly curtail- ed. It will be necessary to abandon the field station at Greeley, Col, de- voted to experiments with sugar beet and potato insects.
 The station at Chadbourne, N. C., Investigating bery and cabage in- sects, will be discontinued.
 Soil Survey Hit. l Work on insects injurious to the health of man, such as yellow fever and malarial mosquitoes and the house fly, must be reduced
 Other lines of activity which will have to be materially curtailed in- clude investigations of the culture and improvement of forage crops, the soil survey work, studies of live stock production in sugar cane and l on+ %pio oy1 in tbo oArf,so1 of the potato wart disease, field ex- periments in the construction and maintenance of roads and of road materials and preparations, farm ir- rigation investigations, and studies in farm drainage. A cut of $50,000 in the fund for improvements on the national forests will necessarily hamper work necessary for the prop CT and economical administration, protection, and development of the national forests.
 All these reductions are much more serious than appears from a mere dollars and cents statemnt. A much less of everything than it formerly bought and also does con- siderably less work. Even if all the appropriations had been retained at the old figures, therefore, the depart ment would have been seriously ham, dicapped in carrying on its work ef- fectively. This summary, of course, does not take into account the projects which the department feels, as indicated in the estimates submitted to congress, should be inaugurated or expanded in order to deal more effectively with important problems in the field of agriculture,
 Notwithstanding the recommenda- tion of the department that the ap- propriation of $239,0O0 for congress sional seed distribution be eliminat- ed and the money diverted to neces- sary and important activities having direct bearing on agricultural pro- duction, this item, although dropped by the senate, has been finally re- | tained in the bill.