New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-12

checked the spread of CONTAGIOUS, disease OF
farm an1mais resisted the advance of noxieus
insects and destructive fungus growth. and
reward of effort and the dlIest immunity from
loss. Its records OF the year show that the sea-
son OF 1888 has been of medium production.
a generous supply of the demands of consump-
ton has been assured and a surplus for ex-
port ation, moderate in certain products and
bountiful in others, will prove a benefaction
alike to buyer and grower. Four years
IL was found that the great
cattle industry Of the country was endangered,
and those engaged in it were alarmed az the
rapid extension of the European plague OF
plenro- pneumonia. Serious outbreaks existed
IN Illinois. Missouri. Kentucky and in Tennes-
see. Animals affected were held quarantine
Five counties in New York and from one to four
counties in each of the states OF New Jersey,
pennsylvania. Delaware and Maryland were al
most equally affected With this great danger
upon us and with the contagion already in the
channels OF commerce. with the enormous direct
and indirect losses already being caused by it,
and when only prompt and energetic action
could be successful. there were in none of these
states any laws authorizing this department. to
eradicate the malady giving the state officials
power TO cooperate with it for the purpose.
The department even lacked both the requisite
appropriation and authority. By securing state
cO-ODeration in cDnnneti0n with authority from
congress
THE WORK OF ERADICATION
has been pressed successfully and this dreaded
disease has been ex5irpated from the Western
states. and also from the Eastern states. with
the exception OF a few restricted areas which are
still under supervision. The danger has thus
been removed, and trade and commerce have
been freed from the vexatious state restrictions
which We're deemed necessary for a time.
= During the past four years the PROCESS of diffu-
sion as applied to the man ufacture of sugar from
sorghnm and sugar cane has been introduced
into the country and fully perfected by the ex-
per1ments carried on by the department. of agri-
culture. This process is now universally con-
coded to be the most economical one, and it is
through it that the sorghum sugar industry has
been established upon firm basis and the road
this diffusion process is also extending in
Louisiana and other sugar-producing parts
of the country, and will doubtless soon
be the only method employed for the
extraction of sugar from the cane. An exhaustive
study has also, within the same period, been
undertaken of the subject of food aduiteration
and the best analytical methods for detecting IL.
part of the results of this work has already
been published by the department., which, with
the matter in course of preparation, will make
the most complete treatise on that subject that
has ever been published in any country. The
department. seeks a progressive development. 1t
would combine the discoveries Of science with
the economies and ameioration Of rural prac-
tlce. A supervision OF the endowed experimental
station system recently provided for is a proper
function of tie department. and is now in oper-
alton. This supervision is very important and
should be wisely and viyi1antly directed to the
end that the pecuniary aid of the government in
favor OF intelligent agriculture should be SO APP
Piled as to result in the general good and TO the
benefit OF all our people, thus Justifyng the ap-
preparation made from the public treasury.