South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-07
CUT EXPENSE ON
FARM PROJECTS,
CLOSE OFFICES
See'y Meredith Says Agricul-
tural Experiments Must
Be Abandoned.
By Associated Press

by Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, June Secret
airy Meredith in a statement outlined
more than a hundred department
Of agricultural activities which he
said would have to be abandoned as
the result of reduction in the appra-
priations carried in the annual agri-
cultural bill.
The agricultural bill as passed by
congress appropriated approximately
$31, 100000, which Secretary Mere
dith said was $4,000, 900 less than
the departments estimates Of its
needs and S2.1S5.OOO less than the
amount provided in the appropria-
zion act for the present year.
Reduce Force.
The agricultural secretary in his
statement said that the most serious
restriction on the departments work
would involve hog cholera eradica-
tlOn activities. Work designed to
wipe out hog cholera, he said, would
nave to be abandoned in several
tates, the force Of men in the field
howing farmers how TO combat the
disease reduced from 40 to 90, and
pecialists now engaged in the larg-
cr hog producing states, reduced
from an average of siA 10 about two
per state.
The department, the statement
continued. lis obliged to withdraw
financial support of cooperative wv
,estinS association work in Ohio, IN
diana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska
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island, Connecticut and New Jersey.
Discontinue Work.
Work toward preventing cereal
diseases must be discontinued at the
stations at Ithaca, y. Y; Lansing,
Mich; Auburn, Ala; Tucson, Ariz. ;
md CORVALLIS, ore, and must be
greatly reduced at the stations AT
Berkely, Calf: Milford, Conn:
Bloomington, III; Lafayette, Ind
Ames, Ia; Manhattan, Kas: Crowley,
la; st. Paul, MINI; New Brunswick,
y. j; Fargo, y. d; Herchey, Pa;
Knoxville, Tenn Arlington, Va:
Pullman, Wash; and Madison, Wis
Urgent problems connected with
the rapidly waning supply Of hard
woods in the central states and the
Appalachians cannot be given Prop
er attention"
during shipment Of poultry, eggs
and fish must be curtailed in sew
eral directions.
1T Will be necessary to disconti-
nue. all work to develop direct
marketing OF farm products by par
cells post, express and otherwise. 30
The inspection service on fruits
and vegetables VIII be reduced. But
ter inspection work can be connect
ed in four OF the larger markets, and
the inspection Of certain other COM
modities specified in the law, such
as hay, cannot be handled at all
Plans 10 establish ofofices for the
inspection OF fruits and vegetables
in Hartford, Conn: Louisville. Ky:
and Norfolk, Va, cannot be carried
out
Close offices.
Grain supervision offices at
Cleveland and salt Lake City, have
been closed.
Investigations Of animal tuber-
culosis, anthrax and varius other di-
seases. as we'll as studies OF stock
poisoning by plants. Will be greatly
reduced
Work on insects dangerous 20
the health Of man, yellow fever and
malaria 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 an 4
cotton districts, work in the control
OF the potatoe-wart disease. field
experiments in the construction and
maintenance Of roads and road mat
erials and farm irrigation investiga-
ton and studies in farm drainage "