Now. wilie I recognize tile fact: that we have transgressed the rules of the House in bringing In a deficiency appropriationl. at the same time this work" is being done by the department and is of a character that is really in the province of the Committee on Agriculture. and. in addition to that. if the gentleman will permit ne. it was brought to the attention of the committee that the seriousness of this situation had not been brought to the notice of the Department of Agriculture until the 1st of November. 1916. long after the -estimates had been submitted. I would say further -that from information we had the pink boll worm is regarded by the experts -of the department as being -even more destructive to cotton. if that is possible. -than the boll weevil itself. This is a worm that immigrated. I presume you .might say. from India to Egypt. and -through the dissemination of Egyptian cotton it has spread into all parts of the world except North America. and the department had not discovered. as I said a moment ago. until November of last year that it had reached North AmefIca and was now present in the cotton of Mexico. It has also been discovered that from the Infected region in "Mexico there -has come into Texas probably 400 tons of tcotton seedM.
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