Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-08
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MOTIONS BOOK PLATE.

MOTIONS BOOK PLATE.
appears in many Of them. noted at
the first Of this book that it bore the book plate
of the Secretary of Agriculture. 1t consists of q
tree and a scroll under it. in which are printed
the words, plant trees" Below this is the in
scriptIon "Arbor Lodge" and Secretary Nor
tons name, which he prints ~. Sterling Nor
ton"
As looked at this the conversation turned to
the planting Of trees and the Secretary told
me that Is 900 900 900 trees have been planted
in Nebraska since he inaugurated the institu-
ton Of Arbor day there in 1872
HOW UNCLE SANS MONEY Is WASTED.
The conversation here turned to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture and I asked the Secretary
whether he was making any changes in the
methods Of running it. He replied:
II am making great many, and am trying
to bring the department down to a practical
business basis. i believe in spending money
where 1t should be spent. but don't believe in
wasting it have already found number of
big leaks which / am stopping. One is in
these experimental stations which have been
established by the department. over tine
country. Some Of them are Of no good what
ever. Why, found one ct Garden City. Kan,
the business Of which was to evolve q grass
which would grow on the arid plains Of the
west Twenty-Five thousand dollars have been
spent on it in i've years. and Professor veasy
Is trying there TO produce n sort Of grass which
will grow without rain. water sofia sort of
grass orchid. l presume. From what inquiries
made found that this Professor veasy had q
home address at Denver, Colorado and he seemed
AIRY WAS due. have stopped the appropriation
and suppose he will now materialize in some
shape or other.
OTHER FAT JOBS.
"Kansas always gets its share Of the appro-
priations," continued Secretary Morton. In
looking over ths state find that Plumb and
Ingalls, have patched it all over with Just such
jobs, but similar things exists In other states,
too. got request the other day for $50 for
q United States iss, which was to be put up
over q sugar bee. farm at Schuyler. Neb.
/ couldn't see the reason for the appropriation
and investigated the station. / found it was
costing us over %, 900 year and that all we
could get out Of il was some beet seed. which
the regular susar-beet factories would send to
Us il We would only pay the freight We pay
on these experimental stations about $3.50. 100
q year, and think the most Of them should
be abolished My idea is that ex-
the agricultural experiment stations Of the
states. There are forty-four Of these scattered
all over the Union. They get an appropriation
from Congress Of s750.000 year. This goes
directly to them. and over 1t We have no con-
troll think that the seeds could be distributed
.he Congressman. 1t costs e136, 900 year to
send out seeds from here. l am going to
recommend Congress to abolish this part Of
our business. As tho seeds are now sent out
thew do not reach the parties they should nor
do the proper kind Of seeds get to the proper
localities"
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOG.
"what are you going to do as to the meat in
spection, Mr.. Secretary" asked.
liam going to abolish good part Of it" was
the reply. "Our meat exports to Germany
last year amounted to only o., 000, 900, and I
find that the Germans reinspected all the meat
that came in. We sent $4,000. 900 worth to
England, where there was no inspection. The
inspection costs q vast deal more than it comes
to. and in eleven months 1t has footed up q
total of about s2O0,0OO. Why. during that
time we paid out o., 900 to inspect the meat at
the Indianapolis abattoirs. and how much
meat do you think was exported from there!
Just s35l so. For every dollars worth Of pork
sent TO Germany from indianapolis We paid
more than sl0 for inspection. 1t isn't good
business.
CORN BEER VERSUS CORN BREAD.
show about American corn In Europe? Is
Cornmeal Murphy going to revolutionizs the
continent2''
Il think not, though he is still in Europe.
More of our corn should be used in Europe,
but believe that We create o greater
market for il by getting the Germans to use 1t
in the making OF beer rather than in the
making of bread. Most Of the beer in the
United States is made largely Of corn. The
Milwaukee brewers will tell you they don't use
it, but they use glucose, which Ia the same
thing, and the greatest per cent Of our beer
comes from corn. Milwaukee turns out a
hundred car loads of beer every day the year
round, and our breweries have q great in
fuence on the prices OF corn. The Germans
use vast quantities Of beer. Bavaria alone
turns out 5000. 900 barrels year, and the other
German provinces have vast brewing estab-
lishments in all of their large cities
Corn makes very good beer, and
I think we can gradually get them
to using it. i have selected bright.
brewer to SO to Germany to look
into the matter. He il now studying at the