Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-24
AMERIoAN AoRIouLruRe.


pneumonia aud Texas Fever ToroigI
Markets Opened
WASHINGTON, Nov 81. Secretary
Rusk has sought to make his fourth anC
last pnnual report as head of the de
parbnent Of agriculture valuable
document and has grouped together
many interesting facts TO show what =
great agricultural people we are anc
what proper thing it was to make ths
prime commissioner OF agriculture a
cabinet officer.
lie says we sent abroad last year
S2OO, 100000 ef products more than we
had to import from foreign z@tions, and
so per cent Of these products were
agricultural. He claims some credit
for that because he shows an increase
of 10000, 900 pounds weight Of pork sent
TO countries which formerly excluded
American pork and $40, 900, 600 value in
crease in our exports of live cattle. All
this comes from the increased precau-
tions to secure healthfulness of Amer
lean food products.
The regulations inforced for the pre-
vehtion Of Texas fever have alone saved
cattle growers more than three times
the cost of running the whole depart
ment, and as TO the suppression of
plcuro-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 a cost less by $4,000 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 q foothold, has been
entirely eradieated.
He explains why our wheat did not
realize Tie big hopes raised by tne snort
crops in various European countries in
1891 by saying that those anticipations
OF enhanced prices failed TO take into
account the changed conditions now
the production and mar
lSeting 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 10 raise its own raw silk instead
Of sending $25, 900, 900 year abroad for
the raw material, and he thinks we
might also save 1000, 600 year which
we now spend on imported fbers.
Many difficulties have attended the
of a new food, generally
regarded in Europe as not suitable for
human consumption a mixed corn
aud rye bread was found necessary TO
secure keeping qualities in a country
where all bread is made and sold by the
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
exports, conditions which have hereto
fore always accompanied great depre-
,iation in prices The corn exports for
1890, the only year in which they have
,qualed those of the present year,
brought the price down to a fraction
inder 81 cents bushel at the port Of
Shipment, against fraction over 50
,ents per bushel this year, difference
lggregating, on the exports of the past
iscal year. not less than $40, 600. 600
The report is the first from the cabi-
ret to find its way to the presidents
lesk.
Secretary Rusk throws cold water on
he rainmaSers The experiments are
,eing Loyalty made, as congress direct
"a, but the facts in his possession do
not justify the anticipations formed by
he believers in this method of artificial
As his last word the secretary eX-
presses his profound appreciation of the
ordial sympathy and broad intelligence
With which the president has uniform
Y needed the needs Of agriculture. He
,redicts that the people of this country
will learn TO appreciate that and the
act that this is the first administration
Iuring which the department Of agri-
ulture held the rank of an executive
department. of the government and was
resided over by chief executive who
Iever failed to appreciats the imp or
ance of agriculture, its dignity and its
"a lt,n - fha country nj larop