Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-01
|kusK's LAST REPORT,
Inc work ofthe Department Of
agriculture Briefly Out
lined.
1ieuro-Pneumonia and It's Erad.
ication---Corn ana Silk
Low Wheat Prices.

secretary Rusk has sought h.
leufeh and last annual report as hea
" .he department OF agriculture.
valuable document, and has oronno
together many interesting facts. II
says we sent abroad last year s.. 600
ooooi products more than we had :
import from foreign nations ana .
per cent. of these products were aor.
cultural. asi'
Inc regulations enforced for III
prevention of Texas fever alone bay
saved cattle growers more than tbre
times the cost OF running the Who'll
department. And as to the sunnres
SION OF pleuro-pneumonia, the secre
sary grows emphatic and eloquent
notwithstanding the assertion to III,
poh1rary OF wicked and prejudice,
Lohdon newspapers, he again declare
mat nleuro-pneumohia does moi owls
Ia The United States. The result h,
Claims, has been obtained at a cos,
less by $l0o,0 900 than was paid ont h,
ureat britain during seven years a,
INDEMNITY for slaughtered cattl,
alone. He also points out that III,
total loss to the cattle growers q,
treat Britain by this disease in deatt
alone has amounted to not less thar
5000, DOC, 1000, and that this is the onl,
country in the world where the dis.
ease, having once gained a foothold
mas beer entirely eradicated.
lie explains why our wheat crop did
not realize the big hopes raised by the
snort crops in various European conn.
tries in 1892 by saying that these an.
tlclpations of enhanced prices failed
10 take into account the changed con.
ditions now surrounding the produc.
tlon and marketing of the worlds
crop. taking the world
throughout the fat crops more than
equaled the lean crops of 1891, so that
there was actually more wheat grown
In that year than in 1890" Even the
exports from Russia, where famine
existed in so large a section, and
Where exports were for a time prohib-
lted, amounted to 105, 900, 600 bushels,
nearly as much as the average of the
past years and more than the average
Tor the past ten years. He says: s'The
conditions which have at last over
whelmed cotton growers now confront
wheat growers" Hence the Ameri-
lean farmer must reduce the wheat
acreage and keep production down to
the normal demand.
While insisting that Southern cot
ton growers must continue to reduce
the acreage of cotton planted he has
some encouragement to offer them in
The shape of new varieties of cotton
seed. Hehas undertaken experiments
With imported seed to secure the pro-
1uction ola home grown cotton which
will meet all the requirements for
which Egyptian and other cottons
Ire now imported. He also wants
he United States to raise its own raw
dix instead of sending s25, 900, 900 a
'ear abroad for the raw material:
md he thinks wemight also save S67,-
700, 009 a year which we now spend
lpon imported fabrics.
He has some hopes of getting the
Germans to use our Indian corn.
'lany difficulties have attended the
Introduction of a new food heretofore
.enerally regarded in England as not
uitable for human consumption. A
mixed corn and rye bread was found
necessary to secure keeping qualities
n a country where all the bread is
made and sold by the bakeries, and
orn grinding machinery purchased
n America is now in use in several
nils in that country: one result is
he maintenance of the price Of corn
the face of largely increased ex-
orts, conditions which have hereto
ore always accompanied a great
expectation in price. The corn
for 1890, the only year in
oiich they have equaled those of the
resent year, brought the price down
fraction under II cents per bushel
t the port of shipment, against a
raction over 50 cents per bushel this
ear, a difference aggregating on the
xports of the fiscal year not less than
10, 600, 600.
Secretary Rusk throws cold water
n the rainmakers. The experiments
re being loyalty made, as congress
irected; but the facts in his pos
do not justify the a%nticipa-
ions formed by the believers in this
of artificial rainmaking.
As his last word the secretary ex-
resses his profound appreciation of
he cordial sympathy and broad in
diligence with which the President
as uniformly, throughout his ad-
Illustration, needed the words of
griculture: