THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934. EXTENSION SERVICE STATEMENTS OF DR. C. W. WARBURTON, DIRECTOR, AND MR. M. M. THAYER, BUSINESS MANAGER, EXTENSION SERVICE PAYMENTS TO STATES, HAWAII, AND ALASKA FOR AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK Mr. SANDLIN. We will now take up the appropriation items for the Extension Service. Under the item for payments to States, Hawaii, and Alaska, the current appropriation is $1,580,000, and the estimate for 1935 is $1,185,000. Under the next item, for the full development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States, the appropriation for 1934 is $1,480,000, and the estimate for 1935 is $1,110,000. The next item, under the head of "Alaska", the appropriation for 1934 is $12,000, and the estimate for 1935 is $9,000, and under the item for additional cooperative agricultural extension work, the current appropriation is $1,000,000, the estimate for 1935 is $750,000. That makes it all, covering payments to States, Hawaii, and Alaska, for agricultural extension work, an estimate for 1935 of $3,054,000, as compared with an appropriation of $4,072,000 for 1934. The appropriation items I have referred to are as follows: For cooperative agricultural extension work, to be allotted, paid, and expended the same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and under the same supervision as the additional appropriations made by the Act of May 8, 1914 U.S.C., title 7, secs. 341-348), entitled "An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862 (U.S.C., title 7, sees. 301-308), and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture," $1,185,000; and all sums appropriated by this Act for use for demonstration or extension work within any State shall be used and expended in accordance with plans mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the proper officials of the college in such State which receives the benefits of said Act of May 8, 1914: Provided, That of the above appropriation rot more than $300,000 shall be expended for purposes other than salaries of coun ty agents. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving The benefits of the Act entitled 'An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts', approved July 2, 1862 (U.S.C., title 7, secs. 301-308), and all Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture", approved May 22, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 7, secs. 343a, 343b), $1,110,000. Alaska: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the benefits of the Hatch Act and the Smith-Lever Act to the Territory of Alaska", approved February 23, 1929 U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 7, sec. 386c), $9,000. Additional cooperative agricultural extension work: For additional cooperative agricultural extension work, including employment of specialists in economics and marketing, to be allotted and paid by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States and the Territory of Hawaii in such amounts as he may deem becessary to accomplish such purposes, $750,000. Dr. WARBURTON. The following general statement is presented: FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR 1934 AND ESTIMATES FOR 1935 Funds available for direct payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for cooperative agricultural extension work for 1934 total $8,738,096, subject to reduction of 25 percent from March 4 to June 30, 1934, by Executive Orders Nos. 6166 and 6221. Pursuant to section 18 of the Executive Order No. 6166, of June 10, 1933, a reduction of 25 percent has been made in the estimates for payments to the States and Territories for extension work for 1935. As provided by the act of March 4, 1931 (Public, No. 846, 71st Cong.), entitled "An act to coordinate the agricultural experiment station work and to extend the benefits of certain acts of Congress to the Territory of Puerto Rico", the permanent annual appropriation (Smith-Lever Act) has been automatically increased by $10,000, after which the 25 percent reduction has been computed. The total of funds requested for payments direct to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico for 1935 consequently is $6,561,072. In addition to the sums indicated above for 1934, there was available to the States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico from appropriations direct to the Department of Agriculture (farmers' cooperative demonstrations and Clarke-McNary forestry funds) a total of $823,432, making the total funds available to the States and Territories for 1934, $9,561,528. Under the estimate for 1935 the Department's contributions to States and Territories under the appropriation for farmers' cooperative demonstrations will be reduced by $505,368, thus bringing the allotments from direct Department funds to a total of $318,064. The payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico proposed for 1935, therefore, will total $6,879,136, or a net decrease of $2,682,392. The use of this money is indicated in greater detail by the following tables 1 and 2. TABLE 1.-Statement showing appropriation items and amounts available to the States in 1933, 1934, and estimated for 1935 1 Subject to 25 percent reduction for payments covering the period from Mar. 4 to June 30, 1934, pursuant to the provisions of Executive Orders Nos. 6166 and 6221. ? Personal services are subject to 15 percent legislative reduction in compensation for 1934. With the exception of the $750,000 designated for "Additional cooperative extension work", and funds allocated by this Department under the appropriation entitled "Farmers' cooperative demonstration work", the major part of the extension money is distributed on the basis of rural population, computed on the proportion that the rural population of each State bears to the total rural population of the States. The $750,000 appropriation for "Additional cooperative extension work" provides for payment to each State and the Territory of Hawaii in accordance with the apparent need as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Funds directly disbursed by the Department are also allotted at the discretion of the Secretary. The following table indicates the funds paid to the States and Territories that require offset by State money, those where such offset is not required, and the basis of allotment: TABLE 2.-Statement of direct payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, indicating those requiring offset by States and Territories, those not requiring such offset and basis of distribution, as estimated for 1935 SOURCE OF allotted FUNDS FISCAL YEAR 1934 The Federal funds for cooperative agricultural extension work are supplemented by funds from within the States estimated at $10,520,054, thus making available from Federal, State and local sources for extension work during 1934 a sum approximating $19,896,230. (See table 3.) This aggregate sum does not take into account the 25 percent reduction in Federal funds for the period March 4June 30, 1934. |