The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-07

largely due to an increase la the price of Amer ican export cattle During the year ended June SO, ls9S exports of inspected pork aggre- gated 20677,4l0 pounds as against 3s, l52,Si pounds for the preceding year The falling on in this export is not confined, however, 10 in- spected pork, The total quantity exported for 1899 being 635. 49J SIS pounds while in I89i it was only a27, ,3J8 9ipounds
 l join the secretary in recommending that hereafter each applicant for the position of in spector or assistant inspector in the bureau of animal industry be required as condition pre- cedent to his appointment to exhibit to the United States civil service commissioner his diploma from an established regular and Fepu- table veterinary college, and that this be sup plemented by such an examination in veterin- ary science as the commission may prescribe The exports of agricultural products from the United States for the fiscal year ended June 3J, 1892, attained the enormous figure of s8J0, 900 ,0JO in round numbers, being 7S,7 per cent of our total exports
 In the last fiscal year tSis aggregate was greatly reduced, but nev Tt el ss, reached S6l5. '0J 900, being 75 per cent of all American commodities exported A review Of our agri- cultural exports ith special refere ce 10 their ces ination will show that in almost every line the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land absorbs by far the largest propor tion or cattle the total exports aggregated in value for the fiscal year ended June 30, ls9i, S,6,JO0, ,0Jp of which Great Britain took considerably over Ss', 0J,UOe. Of beef products of all kinds our total exports were s.S,DooOOO, Of which Great Britain took S,,0p,OOO.
 Of pork products tho total exports were Ssl,- 0OO,' %, of which Great Britain took $500 i,OO0 In breadstufs, cotton and minor products, like proportions sent to the same destination are shown.
 The work of the statistical division of ihe department of agriculture deals with all that relates to the economies of farming. The main purpose of it's monthly reports are 10 keep the farmers informed us fully as possible of all matters having any influence upon the worlds markets in which their products found sale. Its publications relate spe,ially to the commercial side of farming It is therefore of profound importance and vital concern to the farmers of the United States who represent nearly onch Of our population, and also of direct interest to the whole country, that the work of this division be efficiently performed and that the informa- ton it has gathered be promptly diffused. It is matter for congratulation to know thai the secretary will not spare any eifor to make this part Of his work thoroughly useful In tho year 1889 the congress appropriated GOO 10 be taken from the patent office funds for the purpose of collecting and dis trlbuting rare and improved yariet es
  cultural investigations and procuring agri' cultural statsiics, and from this small beginning the seed division of the department of agricult- ure has grown to its present unwieidy and un. iustifiably extravagant proportions.
 During the last fiscal year the cost of seeds | purchased was S;6,5Is 6L The remainder of an appropriation Of sis5, 900 was expended in put | ting them up and distributing them It sure y n,ver could have ente'e ed tle minds Of l Nhga nah aFlEi in tions of public money for the pur- chase of new and improved varieties of seeds for distribution that from this would | grow large appropriations for the purchase and distribution by members of congress of or | dinary seeds, bulbs and cuttings whi are com ] mon in all the states and territories and every | where easily obtainable at low prices In each | state and territory an agricultural experiment | station has been established. These stations, | by their very character and name are the
 proper agencies to experiment with and test | new varieties Of seeds; and yet this indiscrim | mate and wasteful distribution by legislation and legislators continues answering no purpose | unless it be to remind constituents that their representatives are willing to remember them | with gratuitous seeds at public cost
 Under the anction of existing legislation | there was sent out from the agricul tural de- | pertinent during the last fiscal year enough of cabbage seed to plant l9, acres of land a 
 sufficient quantity of beans to plant 4,OoO acres. l beet seed enough to plant ?. 506 acres sweei | corn enough to plant 7,sJo acres, sufficient cucumber seed to cover 2,025 acres with vines | and enough musEmelon and watermelon seeds
 to plant 2,G75 acres The total quantity oi | flower and vcgeta able seeds thus distributed was | ortained in more than nine million packages | and they were sufficient if planted to cover | S9 59j acres of land.
 | In view of these facts this enormous expendi-
 ture without legitimate returns of benefit
 ought to be abolished Anticipating com
 munication so manifesily in the interest of | good legislau q more than SlOO,0J0 has been | stricken from the estimate made to cover this object for the year ending June B, 1895, and
 the secretary recommends that the remaining | S35, ,00J of estimate be confined strictly to the purchase Of new and improved varieties ol | seed and that these be distributed through ex, l pertinent stations Thus the seed will be
 tested and after the test has been completed | by the experiment station the propagation oi l the useful varieties and the rejection of the
 valueless may safely be left to the common
 sense Of the people