AN ACT TO ENABLE THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry WASHINGTON 1918 FOOD PRODUCTION ACT, 1919. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918. UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call of the acting chairman, at 10 o'clock a. m., in room 326, Senate Office Building, Senator Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina, presiding. Present: Senators Smith of South Carolina (acting chairman), Smith of Georgia, Sheppard, Ransdell, Page, Gronna, Norris, Kenyon, and France. The committee proceeded to consider bill (H. R. 11945), which is as follows: AN ACT To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the purposes of the act entitled "An act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the purposes of the act entitled "An act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products," approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Fortieth Statutes, page two hundred and seventy-three), there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the purposes indicated: Provided, That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be used in paying salary or expenses of any man who on account of employment in which he is or may be engaged under the provisions of this act has been or shall hereafter be certified by the Secretary of Agriculture, or by any other official of the Department of Agriculture, for deferred classification, or by action of any other Federal official or authority has been or may hereafter be placed in a deferred class under act numbered twelve, Sixty-fifth Congress, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or under any act amendatory thereof that has been or shall hereafter be enacted : First. For the prevention, control, and eradication of the diseases and pests of live stock; the enlargement of live-stock production, and the conservation and utilization of meat, poultry, dairy, and other animal products; for the following stated purposes and in amounts as follows: Eradication of cattle ticks, $61,610; eradication of hog cholera, $202,965; eradication of abortion, influenza, strangles, and so forth, $175,000; production of beef cattle, $105,000; live-stock production in the Great Plains region, $100,000; production of pork, $150,000; production of poultry, $129,600; production of sheep, $60,000; making cottage cheese on the farm, $52,950; utilization of creamery by-products, $21,850; in all, $1,058,975. 66 Second. For procuring. storing, and furnishing seeds, as authorized by section three of the act, the appropriations for said purposes of $2,500,000 in section eight of the act and $4,000,000 under the heading Department of Agriculture" in the act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in 3 |