Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-12-09
NUON.O OUncAU.
VIA Uncle Jerry's Department Has Done
s tt for the Farmer.

What Uncle Jerry's Department Has Done
for the Farmer.
The report of the secretary Of agriculture
8contains not only a most Interesting state
ment of the progressive and valuable work
done under thu administration of Secretar.
Rusk, tut many for the enlarged usefulness of
this important department.. In the successful
effort to break down the restrictions to til,
free Introduce III Of our meat products in the
- countries of E rope, the secretary has been
nntiring from the first, stimulating and aid
ng all other government officers, at home and
abroad, whose official duties caused them to
Pnrticlpare in the work. The total trade in
bone products with Europe in May, 1882,
amounted to S2,0OO.OUO pounds. against 46,9o,-
wy pounds In the same month OF 1891. III June
lS8S, the exports aggregated 1910 NO pounds
&Against AZ, 50U,O pounds in the same month OF
3the previous year: in July there was an in
@8crease of4l per cent, and in August OF DO per
scent over the corresponding week OF 1871.
lover 40,lO0,0W pounds of inspected pork have
#oeen exported since the law was put into OPP
Hseration, and a comparison of the four months
10 May, June, July and August, 1892, with the
same months of 1891 shows an increase IN the
NUMBER of pounds of our export OF pork prod
ucts OF - per cent, and an increase In value OF
t6zzf. b exports of dressed beef increased
from 37, 5000 lW pounds in 1889 to nv. oOU," w
pounds in 1892. or about GU per cent. During
1&S@G nSAOI0 q NboASS
head of live stock cattle as against a5,7o6
exported In 1889. This increased expectation
has been largely promoted by the inspection
authorized w law and the faithful efforts OF
thesecretary and his efficient subordinates to
mage that inspection thorough and to care
fully exclude from all oargoes diseased or
suspected cattle.
Enormous Agricultural Exports.
Agricultural products constitute 1871 per
IENanka5 nf 0rr 7rrrocn1ap$oH ovY0rta for thu
&fscal year which closed June 30, 1892, the total
exports beinS II ,03O, 2S7, 40. and the value of
thesagricultural products ST93.7 ,876, which
exceeds by more than $l5O. 10000 the shipment
81 horticultural products in any previous year.
Rnsk's Suggestions Commended.
The suggestions Of the secretary for an en-
lArgement OF the work OF the department are
recommended to your favoi able considers
ton. It may be. + think, ssaid without ohal-
lenge that in no co responding period has so
much been done as during the last four yeas
q the beneft Of American agriculture.
III Quarantine Inspection.
no subjects of quarantine regulations, in
6ActionR and control were brought suddenly
my attention by the arrival at our ports In
k6gust lasto vessels infacted with cholera
1darsntine regulations should be uniform at
A::lg onr PORTS. Under the coL.titurton they are
plainly within the exclusive federal %jurisdic-
ton. when and so far as congress shall lsgis.
lAts. ss Ss +
s1nny opinion the whole subject should be
taken into national control, aud adequate
power given to the executive to protect the
cope against plague invasions. There is dan.
Eprthst With5the coming VI spring cholera
&34lasainssppear, an.s i liberal Appropriation
iElld5be made at this session u enable oul
L thntine III port ~of1ciats to exclude TIT
&e4dly plague.
For Restricted Immigration.
ID are peculiarly subject In 0ur great ports
a spread OF infectious diseases by reason
1.-THE fact shat unrSstriotsd immigration
&ngsto us out OF European eises In the over
tWded3 steerages OF great steamships . large
&abersOf persoass whose surroundings n,akt
ens the easy victims Of the psagus. Thu
Rtttcal. moral and industrial interests Of ou1
8Atsy.sleAd me 70 ssnsw the suggestiOnSth a