Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-21
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
WEALTH LTHH OF TEE FARMER
Report of the Secretary Of
Agriculture.
BLAINE'S HEALTH MUCH Improved.
Failure of the Homestead
Strikers.
DECEASE Of MRS. AUGUST Belmont
Six Fishermen Drowned in
the Atlantic.
DECEAsE OF mrs. AUGUST BELMONT
AGRICULTURE.

Report or secretary Huek TO Tn
Parliamentary Expectation of
the Fruits of Husbandry - En-
couragement for Farmers-Compet-
ing Impoverished Production.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The report of
the secretary of agriculture has been sub
mitted to the president. It emphasizes
the fact, that of the moro than one billion
dollars worth of exports of four domestic
products for the past year, nearly 80 per
cent. consisted of agricultural products,
making the United States the creditor of
the world for over $500. 200, 900, the excess
of our exports over imports, and relieving
our home market of a surplus. For a
large share in bringing about the condi-
lions which have made these results pos
sible, the secretary claims credit for his
department.
In regard to imports he finds encourage
ment for farmers in the fact that, in spite
of an aggregate increase there Ia a reduc-
ton in the proportion of imports consist
ing of products which compete with Amer
lean agriculture. While in the fiscal year
ended in 1889 "a per cent Of the imports
VI COLl pCtluS PAoauSho ohAJ
per cent. of our imports for the past fiscal
year did 80 compete.
The secretary regards the imports COM
peting with the products of our own soil as
still far too great. He instances $40, 000,-
900 worth of animal products, $67 900, 900
worth of fbres, $27,000,000 of hides,
$50, 000, 900 of fruits and wines as
articles of this kind and cites the
imports amounting to $4,000, 900, 900 year
ly as an instance of products imported,
which could properly be produced in this
country. The secretary says since his pre-
vious report prohibitions have been with
drawn in al! countries whsre they existed.
Comparing the export trade for May, June,
July and August of this year as a period
in which the effects of inspection can be
clearly noted, with the same period last
year, be finds an increase in quantity
shipped this year of 81 per cent. at an ad
vance in prices, which increased values for
the same period by 664 per cent. He COM
pares prices for September, 1892, with
those of September, 1890, the year before
pork inspection was adopted, and shows
an increase of 80 cents per hundred
pounds.
The secretary attributes the excessive
anticipations formed regarding the price
for wheat throughout the crop year of
1OS1 TO failure 10 appreciate tHo CnahSeu
conditions now surrounding the proauc-
ton and marketing of the worlds wheat
crop. He says the conditions which have
at least overwhelmed cotton growers now
confront wheat growers. Hence the
American farmer must reduce the wheat
acreage and 80 bring production down to
the normal demand. He says that the
domestic market, which has heretofore
absorbed ten million bushels of foreign
barley is now reserved for the domestic
product and our acreage and production
have increased and been disposed of at
good prices. The experience of the de-
partment in the domestic sugar industry
for the past year, the report states, shows
that domestic sugar can be produced with
profit to the grower of the crop and to the
manufacturer, provided that the condition
of culture and manufacture insisted upon
by the department are secured.