The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21
RUSK MAKES HIS REPORT.
IT Is TaE FIRST TO REACH TIE
PRESIDENT.

Many Interesting Facts Grouped To-
gethsr TO Show the Country's Great
ness In Agriculture-highty Per
Cent. OF Our Exoess OF Exports
Went From the Farms.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Sscretary Rusk
has sought to make his fourth and last an
nual report as the head OF the department
OF agriculture valusble dooumsns, and has
grouped together many interesting facts TO
show what great agricultural people we
are, and what a proper thing il was to make
the commissioner of agriculture a cabinet
officer. He says we sent abroad last year
$500. 900, 900 in products more than we had to
import from foreign nations, aud so per cent.
Of these products were agricultural. He
claims some credit for that, because he
shows an increase Of 40, 0,0O0, 600 in the weight
Of the pork sent TO countries which formerly
excluded American pork and $40 ,000, 900
increase in our exports Of live cattle. All
this comes from increased precautions to
secure healthfulness In American food
products.
PREVENTION OF CATTLE DISEASES.
The regulations enforced for the pre-.
vention OF Texas fever alone have saved
cattle growers more than three times the
cost Of running the whole department.
And as TO suppression Of pleuro pneumonia
the secretary grows emphatic and again de-
clares that pleuro-pneumonia does not exist
in the United States. He points out that
the total loss TO the cattle growers of Great
Britain by this disease in deaths alone has
amounted TO not less than $500 900, ,0O0 and
that this is the only country In the world
where the disease having gained a foothold
has been entirely eradicated.
Regarding wheat he says: Taking the
world throughout the fat crops more than
equaled the lean crops OF 1891, so there was
actually more wheat grown in that year
than in 1890, and the conditions which have
at last overwhelmed the cotton growers
now confront the wheat growers
HELP FOR THE COTTON PLANTER.
While insisting that the southern cotton
grower must continue to reduce the acreage
of cotton planted, he has some encourage
ment to offer them In the shape of now va
rieties of cotton seed. He has undertaken
experiments with imported seed to secure
the production of homo grown cotton which
viii meet with all the requirements for
which Egyptian and other cottons are now
imported.
He also wants the United States to raise
its own raw silk instead of sendings25, ,0OO, 900
year abroad for raw material, aud thinks
we might save $67, 900 900 year on i'm
ported fibers.
The corn exports for $780, the only year
in which they have equaled those Of the
present year, brought the price down to a
fraction under AZ cents bushel ct the port
Of shipment, against fraction over So
cents per bushel this year, tho difference
aggregating ON the exports Of the past
fiscal year not less than $40, ,000,O 600
The report Is the first from the cabinet to
find its way to the Presidents desk.
Secretary Rusk throws cold water on the
rain makers. Experiments are being 10y
ally made, as congress directed, but the
facts in his possession do not justify the
anicipations formed by the believers in this
method of artificial rain-making.
AS his last word, the secretary expresses
his profound appreciation of the cordial
sympathy and broad intelligence with
which the President has uniformly through
out bis administration, needed the needs Of
agriculture.