legal action, and, in addition, there were some 31 consignments which were offered for importation that failed to meet the requirements of the law and were excluded. That work, again, is continuous just as is the food and drug work, because there are new insecticides and fungicides being developed for the market continuously. It is an everlasting battle, of course, on the part of the farmers to combat those pests. He must rely on some type of insecticide or fungicide in order to bring his crop to maturity. P.W.A. FUNDS Mr. SANDLIN. The emergency funds allocated under this head, as shown by the list on page 154, amount to $41,510. You are using those funds, also? Dr. DUNBAR. Yes, sir. That money has not been entirely spent yet. The work is in course of construction. That will be the total expenditure of emergency funds. Mr. SANDLIN. Is that work done under the supervision of your Bureau? Dr. DUNBAR. Yes, sir. ENFORCEMENT OF THE MILK IMPORTATION ACT Mr. SANDLIN. The next item is for the enforcement of the milk importation act, as follows: Enforcement of the Milk Importation Act: For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an act approved February 15, 1927 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 21, secs. 141-149), entitled “An act to regulate the importation of milk and cream into the United States for the purpose of promoting the dairy industry of the United States and protecting the public health", $17,739. Dr. DUNBAR. The following statement is submitted for inclusion in the record: Increase, Budget 1935, compared with estimated obligations, 1934. The reduction of $621 in the 1935 estimate of $17,739 below the appropriation of $18,360 for 1934 consists of Impoundment of 6% percent of 15-percent pay cut.. 17, 739 879 Curtailments in 1934 working funds....... 5-percent salary restoration.. Total... -1, 170 -330 +879 -621 WORK DONE UNDER THIS APPROPRIATION To provide for expenses in enforcing the Milk Importation Act approved February 15, 1927 (U.S.C., supp. IV, title 21, secs. 141-149). The Milk Importation Act provides for inspection both at the source and at the ports of entry. The work of enforcing this act, therefore, involves the supervision of the sanitary inspection of Canadian shipping plants and dairies from which milk is shipped to the United States and supervision of the physical examination and in most instances tuberculin test once a year of cattle from herds producing milk shipped to the United States, this work being carried out in collaboration with Canadian officials as authorized by the act; it also involves the bacteriological examination and temperature tests of sufficient representative samples of all imported milk and cream, to insure compliance with the act at ports of entry. Milk may be brought into the Unites States at any port along the Canadian border, but the bulk of the milk and cream comes in through ports of entry in New York and the New England States. In addition to the stations mentioned under the Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, a special station is maintained at Rouses Point, N.Y. GENERAL STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Mr. SANDLIN. Is there any further statement you wish to make in regard to that item? Dr. DUNBAR. The Milk Importation Act was passed in 1927. It requires that all importations of milk and cream shall comply with certain definite standards as to temperature, bacterial content, and so forth, and that the dairy plants and farms where the milk is produced shall be up to certain standards of sanitation. It covers also the health of the dairy animals. As a matter of fact, that work has been decreasing from year to year, owing to the fact that the tariff impositions have made it unprofitable for Canadian dairymen to import much milk and cream into the United States. Practically all of that work has been done along the Canadian border, particularly in the section extending from Buffalo east to the Maine State boundary. We have maintained a special laboratory station at Rouses Point, N.Y., at which we have carried on the supervision of imported milk and cream. This appropriation has been progressively reduced from year to year because of the fact that the importations of milk and cream have decreased. We have got it down to about the minimum probably, because there is always a certain amount of milk and cream coming in that must be supervised. For that reason we maintain a skeleton force at the Rouses Point station, a force that is merely sufficient to supervise the work in connection with the milk and cream coming over the Canadian border. A certain amount of this work is done, also, in some of our other border cities, such as Los Angeles, where a small amount of milk and cream occasionally comes in from Mexico. The bulk of it, however, is along the New York State border. IMPORTATIONS OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS Mr. THURSTON. There has been considerable discussion as to whether or not the recent tariff act really reduced the amount of importations. Will you set out a table showing the amount of milk and cream imported into the United States from different countries, say, from 1925 to 1933? Dr. DUNBAR. I do not have that figure here, but I think I can supply it. Would you want that for anything besides milk and cream, or would you want the figures as to butter importations? Mr. THURSTON. Yes; for milk and its derivatives. Dr. DUNBAR. I think I can get those figures for you. Mr. THURSTON. Let your table also set out the amount of duty on all those same products under the last three tariff acts. It would not take up much space, and I would like to see what that picture is. Dr. DUNBAR. I will supply that for the record. (The information referred to is as follows:) (NOTE. The Federal Food and Drug Administration does not keep statistics regarding importations of milk and milk products. The attached tables giving the information requested are taken from the published reports of the Department of Commerce:) |