The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-25
Rusk.s LAST REPORT.
The Commissioners of Agriculture Explains
tho Great Success of His Department.


The Commissioners of Agriculture Explains
the Great Success of His Department
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.--Secretary
Rusk has sought to make his fourth and
last annual report as head of the de-
partment of agriculture a valuable
document and has grouped together
many interesting facts to show what a
great agricultural people we are and
what proper thing it was to make the
prime commissioner of agriculture
cabinet officer.
He says we sent abroad last year
5000, 900, 600 of products more than we
had to import from foreign nations, and
so per cent OF these products were
agricultural He claims some credit
for that because he shows an increase
of A, 900, 900 pounds weight of pork sent
to countries which formerly excluded
American pork and $40, GOO. 900 value in
crease in our exports of live cattle. All
this comes from the increased preeau-
tons to secure healthfulness of Amer
lean food products. u.s.,
The regulations inforced for the pre-
vention of Texas fever have alone saved
the cost of running the whole depart
ment, and as to the suppression of
pleuro-pneumonia, the secretary grows
emphatic and eloquent Notwithstand-
ing the assertions to the contrary of
wicked and prejudiced London newspa-
pers he declares that pleuro-pneumonia
does not exist in the United States.
This result. he claims, has been OBJ
tanned at cost less by 500, 900 than
was paid out by Great Britain during
seven years as indemnity for slaught-
cred cattle alone. He also points out
that the total loss to the cattle growers
of Great Britain by this disease in
deaths alone amounted to not less than
half a billion dollars, and that this is
the only country where the disease,
having once gained fOothold, has been
entirely eradicated
He explains why our wheat did not
crops in various European countries in
1891 by saying that those antieipations
of enhanced prices failed to take into
account the changed conditions now
surrounding the production and mar
keting Of the worlds wheat crop.
He has undertaken experiments with
imported seed to secure the production
of home grown cotton which will
meet all the requirements for which
Egyptian and other cottOns are now
imported. He also wants the United
States 20 raise its own raw silk instead
OF sending s25, OOO, 900 a year abroad for
the raw material, AND he thinks we
might also save So, O0O 900 year which
we now spend on imported fibers.
Many difficulties have attended the
of new food, generally
in Europe as not suitable for
human consumption. A mixed corn
and rye bread was found necessary to
secure keeping qualities in country
where all bread is made and sold by the
bakeries, and corn grinding machinery
purchased in America is now in use in
several mills in that country. One re-
suit is the maintenance of the price of
corn in the face of largely increased
conditions which have hereto
fore always accompanied great depre-
citation in prices The corn exports for
1890, the only year in which they have
equaled those OF the present year,
brought the price down to fraction
under ~ cents bushel at the port OF
against fraction over 55
cents per bushel this year, difference
on the exports OF the past /,
fiscal year. not less than 100000 900.
The report is the first from the cabi- |
net to find its way to the presidents
desk.
Secretary Rusk throws cold water on
the rainmakers The experiments are !
being Loyalty made, as congress direct |
ed, but the facts in his possession do !!
not justify the anticipations formed by |
the believers in this method of artificial |
As his last word the secretary ex-
presses his profound appreciation OF the |
cordial sympathy and broad intelligence |
with which the president has uniform !
" needed the needs of agriculture. He !
predicts that the people of this country |
will learn to appreciate that and the
fact that this is the first administration |
during which the department of agri- |
culture held the rank of an executive
of the government and was |
presided over by chief executive who |
never failed to appreciate the impor-
tance of agriculture. its dignity and it's /
value to the country at large.
souvenir COIN MINTED.