Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-12
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AlulllS CS IL AlOtS lOI Ilt tIGtlIOL
OF new laboratory building for the use
OF the department of agriculture, at &
cost Of $3.50. .000. 1t is unanimously
recommended and an urgency set fortl
which is absolutely insignificant wher
building bills also on the calendar
This, however, may so through for the
benefit Of the farmer, but it is well t
public buildings
The Weather Bureau.
Totally different in scope is the bill tc
transfer the weather bureau from the
war department to the care of Secretary
Rnsk Military men have been turning
out some pretty tough weather OF late
for the agliculturist, and he has been
seized with desire to bounce the mill
tary gentlemen, make some places for
civilians and run the weather to his
own taste, The farmer should be noti-
| fed cf approaching storms and early
frosts. No one will question that this
ought to lie done. and, of course, if done
| for the fuimer, must be accomplished
| through his own especial department.
1t matters nothing that it is not until
! his days labor is ended. or ofJel
| that Of the week, that he gets an oppor-
tunity to pick up his paper and discover
| how wide of the mark somebody guessed
that the weather he has just been
| through was going to be: it is the
weather that makes the crops grow or
retards ana impairs them, and so it is
to be assigned 10 the agricultural de
| partment.
Diseased Cattle.
The regulations in regard TO diseased
cattle are sought to be much further
ami lifted than heretofore by Bill 1884,
which, under the guise of being amend
atory of the act creating a bureau of
animal Industry, undertakes to vest in
the department of agriculture powers
which may not be altogether agreeable
to the farmer With the end sought to
be attained by the bill there will be an
almost universal sympathy. 1t aims at
the eradication of pleuro-pneumonia
AMI other contagious diseases of cattle
i'll order that unwholesome meats shall
not he placed upon the market, or un-
sound cattle exported to foreign coun-
tics. and thereby tend to diminish the
prices of American cattle In this last
it ii entering upon field more fully
covered by II bill recently reported from
the committee on commerce.
70 reach this end the bill provides not
merely for au inspection OF all cattle
offered for shipment or for sale bat in
the herds themselves, and branding OF
the animals, and the Inhibition Of their
movements from place to place, except
under regulations tos be laid down by
the department, and, finally. that such
as are believed infected may be con
demned and slaughtered. AS already
said, the object is a worthy one, but the
power Of congress to SO extend Federal
control of flocks amt herds may be fairly
questioned, as is done in the minority
report. If its object is the promotion OF
health, it is in the nature Of police
regulation, and so a matter for the juris-
diCtion Of the leyeral states. 1t is, Of
course, extremely desirable that there
should be uniformity i'll such restric-
tions, and that makes the equity of the
hill. If passed, and the several states
cooperate, it will accomplish much
good. but if they antagonize the law its
enfofcement may be nullitied.
Sailed Pork for Expert.
The remaining measure which the
committee ON agriculture has on the
calandar is IL senate bill. 1t provides
for an inspection Of salted pork and
bacon intended for export, prohibits the
impOrtation of adulterated food, drugs
or liquors, or diseased or infected cattle,
authorizes the president to exclude the
products of such countries from our own
as improperly discriminate against the
American hog, to suspend the impOrta-
ton Of cattle from countries where con-
tagiOus diseases are prevalent, and pro-
vides for an inspection of all cattle inn
ported or exported. The measure is
concise III language, yet appears to he as
effective and far-reaching as some of the
more pretentious Lills having in view
portions of the same legislation,
What Does 1t All Amount To?
Such are the measures now on the
house calendar from the agricultural
committee. The farmer who studies
them will be forced to the conclusion
that there are some things beyond the
control of even congressional legislation,
and that the details of his daily con-
Germs are among them. You may put
the weather bureau under his control
but YOU do not thereby change the
weather. you may reserve to hum the ex-
Clu i've right TO gamble i'll futures. but
that only limits the game and makes 1t
weary, stale and unprotitable:' you
may exact that compound lard shall be
nut up like patent medicine, but you
do not alter the character Of the article
which his thrifty wife procures when
the pigs are killed; you may inspect
every animal upon the continent, but if
he is not in the stock raising business he
is not profited thereby; and you may
rear IA laboratory casting S2hO,000 or
many millions. and he will look long
and patiently before he will discover
how he has been benefited thereby,
Numerous other schemes,
Other schemes have been proposed,
but are not before the house, such rs
the sub-treaslry advocated by the
Farmers Alliance, which would I'M
doubtedlv put money in his pockets, but
would mt the same time transfer the
government from popular to Il paternal
one. Schemes are offered whose authors
must have concocted them while in a re
treat for the feeble minded or when un-
der the influence of corn juice, but
when congress is through and when it
shall have done all it can, the fact will
remain that crops cannot be raised by
law or their sale made subject to legal
enactment. and the farmer will find HIM
self obliged to labor as before TO plow,
tend aud harvest. and trust to laws
higher than those Cf human enactment
to bring him TO Utopia.
.JohnStown's Reconciliation.
WASHINGTON. Aug. l2.-Daniel Cool
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