Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-21

clasees were SAINT the first year, and after that
the school authorities asked for trained teach
ers OF cooking who were trained at the mission
Snooi tor the purpose Of teaching cooking in
the public schools the next year
Az thfs time over n thousand children receive
nee lnssraction In cooking in the public schools
OF Washington. Mrs. Woodbury. Mission
school stlll continues and great prosperity has
AZ s,ten1sa IL snee ITS Incorporation through the
noeraiity OF MIRA Woodbury. and other philan-
thropists.
M. 1ARorHAn's TWO rArrns
Mr. Henry farquhar Of Washington read
two papers, the first Of which. on the proauc-
ton, total value and import.tions Of potatoes.
was largely arithnetical. His examination of
the returns Of the Agricultural Depar,ment
brought out the two relations: First tina, the
net mportations were almost sure 10 be
about one-tweifth OF the crop deficiency,
full crop being estimated at ass bushels per
capita' second, that the total value of the crop
changed by per cent of itself for every 81
per cent of itself by which the production
shanced. and in the opposite direction; the
larger crop being less valuable The price was
therefore raissd by A. per cent wherever the
total yield fell on 81 per cent
Ar. tarquhars second paper treated Of the
ownership Of merchant vessels in this country.
whose fluctuations ior seventy years he showed
by diagrams The diminuton in the amount
owned, both OF tonnage in foreign trade and of
tonnage IN the coastwise trade per head of
population since the civil war. was very strongly
marked He examined fourteen cases of note
worthy increase or decrease in average rates of
duty and showed that in the great majority of
them an increased duty was followed by a de-
creased ownership OF mercantile marine. and
vice versa.
His conclusion was that any increase Of per
cent IN the average duty rates is generally at
tended With decrease OF about one thousandth
OF ton per inhabitsnt in the marine employed
On the foreign trade, aud of about the same
amount IN that employed on the coastwise
traffic.
THE WATER PRoBLEN.
Prof h l. Fernow's paper on Water Man
agemeut the Problem of the Future" began by
saying that the solution Of the social questions of
orr time depends mainly on the increase of
food supplies. and thereby improvement in the
prosperity Of the greatest number. The
problem of proper water management was Il
parton the subject The best Use OF land could
be said, only be realized when water distrihu-
ton was good and the problem Of water man
aSement was one that Incrited the utmost at
tention. But water management depends on
forest management and this was made
Me central point Of the paper. lie
described the influence of forest on rainfall
anu said that the mountain forest has place in
political economy OF the greatest Importance.
he closed by suggesting a comprehensive sys-
TEN OF water statistics in connection with the
agricultural stations and the weather bureau.
THE FLAX FIBER INDUSTRY.
Statstician Charles Richard Dodges paper
ON 1.-The Needs OF the American Flax Fiber In
dustry" followed. He said that the generally
accepted belief that fax seed and fiber could
not both be produced in the same plant was
erroneous.
Flax culture in America, to be successful
must depend on labor-saying machinery. Flax
has been grown experimentally for the De
partmens OF Agriculture on fifty or more farms
this years
Examples of the product already examined.
show that with care tax may be grown for nber
over large territory of the United States. The
manufacturing branch Of the industry is, he
said, already established.