Show A AGRICULTURAL WORK TO BE CURT CURTAILED AILED MEREDITH STATES Washington Juno C. C G. Secretary Meredith Meredith Mer Mer- edith In Itt a n. staf statement ment tonight outlined moro more than half a hundred department of or agriculture activities which he said would have to be abandoned as the re result ro- ro suit sult In the appropriations ns carried Inthe In tho the annual agricultural bill The agriculture bill appropriated ap approximately approximately ap- ap I II proximately which Secreta Secretary r ry Meredith said was leas less titan than tho the departments department's estimates of ot Its needs and less letB than provided In the tho appropriation act ct for tor the tho present year Tho secretary said Bald lie tho most serious restriction on the departments department's work would Involve ohe hog cholera and eradication eradication cation activities Work orl designed to wIpe out hog cholera he said would havo have to to bo abandoned In several states the force torce of ot men In the lie field flold showing showing- farmers how to combat tho the disease re re- re from to four fifty and specialists ape ape- now engaged in the tho larger or hog hoS' producing stat states 5 reduced from an average aver nver- age of ot six to about two per state |