The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-12-07

crafty have been allotted TO many OF them.
Such aliottments have been made TO 10. 900
individuals during tho last fiscal year en-
bracing about 1000, 900 acres.
/ The solution OF the Indian problem de-
4 pends very largely upon good adninistra.
ton. The personal fitness OF agents an
their Gdaptability TO the peculiar duty OF car
ing for their wants, Is OF the utmost import.
ance.
The law providing that. except in especial
cases. army officers shall be detailed rs In.
dian agents. II is hoped will prove success
ful experiment
There II danger OF great abuses creeping
intothe prosecution OF claims for Indian de.
| preciations, and recommend that every
possible safeguard be provided against the
enforcement OF unjust and fictitious claims
OF this description.
FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Tho report OF the Secretary OF Agriculture
will be found exceedingly interesting. cspe-
| ctally TO that large part OF our citizens inti-
mately concerned In agricultural occupa-
| TONS
Especially commend to the attention OF
the Congress the statements contained in the
secretary's report concerning forestry. The
time has come when efficient measures
should be taken for the preservation Of our
forests from indiscriminate and remediless
destruction.
The regulations OF 1892 concerning Texas
fever have been enforced during the last
year, and the large stockyards OF the coun-
try nave been kept tree IRON infection, Oe-
| cnsionally local outbreaks have been large
y such rs could have been efrectually
guarded against by the owners OF the af-
fected cattle.
While contagious pleuro.pneumonia In
cattle has been cradicated, animal tuber-
culosis, disease widespread and more dam
gerous to human life than pleuro-pneumonia
is still prevalent. Investigations have been
made during the past year ms TO the means
OF It's communication and the method OF it's
correct diagnosis. Much progress has been
made In this direction by the studies OF the
division ofanimal pathology. but work ought
10 be extended in cooperation with local
authorities until the danger to human life
arising from this cause is reduced to q mini
mum.
In the year 1889 the Congress appropriated
$1,000 20 be taken from the Patent Onice
funds. for the purpose OF collecting and dis
rriputing rare anu improved varieties OF seeds
and FOR prosecuting agricultural inyestiga-
tions and procuring agricultural statistics,
From this small beginning the Seed Division
OF the Department OF Agriculture has grown
70 It's present unwieldy and unjustiflably ex-
travagant proportions.
During the last fiscal year the cost OF seeds
purchased was s66.5i66l. The remainder
OF an appropriation OF Sl35, 900 was expend-
ed In putting them up and distributing
them. II surely never could have entered
the minds OF those who first sanctioned
appropriations OF public moneys for
the purchase OF new and improved
varieties OF seeds for gratuitous distribution
that from this would grow large appropria-
tons for the purchase and distribution by
Members OF Congress OF ordinary seeds.
bulbs, and cuttings which are common in ali
the States and Territories and EVERYWHERE
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 vet
this indiscriminate and wastefu distribution
by legislation and Legislators continues au-
swering no purpose unless IL be TO remind
constituents that their representatives are
willing 10 remember them with gratuities at
public cost.
Under the sanction OF existing legislation
there was sent out from the Agricultural
Department during the last fiscal year
enough OF cabbage seed 10 plant 10. 200
acres OF land. n sufficient quantity OF beans
TO plant 1000 acres. beet seed enough TO
plant $500 acres. sweet corn enough to plant
1900 acres, sufficient cucumber seed 10
cover 2025 acres with vines. and enough
~elon and watermelon seeds TO plant
rest. The total auantiti- OF flower and
vegetable seeds thus distributed was con-
tanned In more than nine million packages,
and they were sufficient, II planted TO cover
1866 acres of land.
In view OF these facts this enormous ex-
penditure without Legitimate returns OF bene-
III ought 10 be abolished. Anticipating a
contamination so manifestly In the interest
OF good administration, moro than 800 900
has been stricken from the estimate made TO
cover this object for the year ending June
30, 1895 and the Secretary recommends that
the remaining S35 900 OF the estimate Ice con-
fined strictly 10 the purchase OF new and Inn
proved varieties OF seeds. and that these be-
distributed through experiment stations.
Thus the seed will be- tested and after the
test has boen completed by the experiment
station. the propagation OF the useful va
rieties and the rejection OF the valueless may
safely be left % the common sense Of tho
people.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS
The continued Intelligent execution OF the
Civil Service law and the increasing ap-
proval 10y the people, of its Operation are
most gratifying. The recent extension OF its
limitations and regulations TO the employees
at free delivery postoffices, which has been
honestly and promptly accomplished by the
commission, with the hearty cooperation OF
the Postmaster General, IL AN immensely i'm
portant advance in the usefulness OF the sys-
TEN.
l am, ii possible, more than ever con-
vinced Of the .ncalculabe benefits conferred
by the Civil Service law. not only In its effect
upon the public service but also, what is
even moro important, IN its effect III elevat-
Ing the tone OF political life generally.
NEED OF PUBLIC ECONOMY.
Economy in public expenditure is duty
that cannot innocently be neglected By
those intrusted with the control OF
money drawn IRON the people TOR put
lie uses IL must be confessed that our
apparently endless resources, the famil-
iarity OF our people with immense ac-
cumulations OF wealth. the growing
sentiment among them that the expendi-
ture OF public money should in some manner
be TO their Immediate AMI personal advan-
tage, the indirect and almost stealthy man