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Show SERIOUS CUT MADE IN AGRICULTURAL BILL WASHINGTON., June C Secretary Meredith In a statement has outlined more than half a hundred department of agriculture actlvltips which, he said, would havo to be abandoned as the result of reduction in the appropii-almost appropii-almost carried in the annual agricultural agricul-tural bill. Tho agiiculturture bill appropriated approximately S31.000.000, which Secretary Sec-retary Meredith said was $G, 000. 000 less than tho department's estimates of Its needs and $2,185,000 less than provided In tne appropriation act for J the present year. I The socretaoy said the most serious restriction on the departmpnt's. work would involve hog cholera, eradication eradica-tion activities. Work designed to wipe out hog cholera, he said, would have to be abandoned in several states, the force of men In tho field showing farmers how to combat the disease 1'cduced from 1 19 to 54. and specialties now engaged In tho larger hog producing pro-ducing states reduced from an aver-ago aver-ago of six to about two per cent. "The department,' the statement continued. "Is obliged to withdraw financial fin-ancial support of co-operative testing work in Ohio. Indiana, olwa, Minnesota, Minne-sota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, "West Virginia. Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. "Co-operative work toward Improving Improv-ing quality and increasiugtho use of dairy products will have to be abandoned aban-doned in Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. "The department will have to discontinue dis-continue its co-operation in the employment em-ployment of dairy specialties engaged in demonstration work in Novada and Wyoming. The plan to extend that work next year into Arizona, Now Mexico and Colorado cannot be carried car-ried out. "Many field stations will have to be closed. This Includes all the stations In North Carolina and Tennessee, and those at Amarillo, Texas; Archer, Wyo.: Highmore. S. D.; Brookings, S. D.: Nophl, Utah; Burns, Oregon; and Llnd, "Washington. rf . |