Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-12-07

demagogic fears and make sport of the pa
trlotlc impulse of a grateful people.
AS TO AGRICULTURE.
Operations of the Department and Rec
concentrations.
Inc secretary of agriculture in his re-
port reviews the operation of his depart
ment for the last fiscal year, ann makes
recommendations for the further exte :
slons OF its usefulness. He reports a saw
ing In expenditures during the year of six
hundred thousand dollars, which is COW
cred back into the treasury. This sum is
tWenty-three per cent of the entire appro-
preparation.
A special study has been made of the
demand for American farm products in all
foreign markets, especially Great Britain.
The exports of agricultural products
from the United States during the fiscal
year ending June 3Oth, 1894, amounted to
S62S,363,O3S, being 32.2S per cent of Amer
lcan exports of every description, and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain took
more than 81 per cent of all farm products
finding foreign markets.
New Lines of Research.
The department of agriculture has I'M
dertaken during the year two important
lines OF research. The first relates to
grasses and forage plants with the pur-
pose OF lnstructing and familiarizing the
people as to the distinctive grasses of the
United States and teaching them how to
introduce valuable foreign forage plants
which may be adapted to this country.
h second relates to agricultural soils
n crop production, involving the an
alysls OF samples of soils from all sections
OF the American Union to demon
strate their a%daptability to par
tlcular plants and crops. Mechani-
cal analysis of soils may be of
such inestimable value that it is
foremost in the new line of agricultural
research, and the secretary, therefore, rec
ommends that a division having it in
charge be permanently established in the
department..
The Weather Bureau.
The amount appropriated for the wealth
er bureau was 1851. 100. OF that sum
$l3s,5O0, or IA per cent. was saved and re-
turned to the treasury, H
As lllustrating the usefulness of this
service it may be here stated mat the
warnings which were very generally given
OF W tropical storms occurring in Sep
TENDER and October of the present year re-
suited in OBTAINING safely in port 2. 3O5 YES
sells, valued at $50, 2s3. 913, laden with car
goes of probably still greater value! What
is much more important and gratifying.
many human lives On these ships were
also undoubtedly saved.
The appropriation to the bureau of ami
NAL industry was $3.50, 600 and the expen-
ditures for the year were only Ss4495, 429. "a,
thus leaving unexpended 1854, $40. rs. The
inspection of beef animals for export and
Interstate trade has been confined, and
lO2, ,O56 head were inspected during the
year at a cost Of l 81 cents, against 4 3-4
cents for 1893. The amount of pork mi
croscopically examined was s., 4s7, 937
pounds against 20,677, 419 pounds in the
preceding year. The cost of this inspec-
ton has been diminished from 8 "a cents
per head in 1898 to liz cents in 1894.
Bovine, Tuberculosis.
Quite recently this department has pub
lished the results of it's Investigations of
bovine tuberculosis and it's researches will.
be vigorously continued. Certain herds
in the District Of Columbia will be thor
oughly inspected and will probably supply
adequate scope for the department. to in
diligently prosecute it's scientific work
and furnish sufficient material for pur-
poses of illustration, description and def
| milton.
The sterilization of milk suspected of
containing the bacilli of tuberculosis has
been during the year very thoroughly ex-
planned in a leafiet by DR.. ST. Salmon,
chief of the bureau, and given general
circulation throughout the country.
Nutritive Values of Foods.
Acting upon a recommendation CON
tanned in the report of 1893, congress ap-
propriated 10000 ito enable the secretary
of agriculture to investigate the report
upon the nutritive value Of various arti-
cles and commodities used for human.
food, with special suggestion Of full,
wholesome and edible rations less waste.
full and more economical than those in
common USE"
Under this appropriation the depart
ment has prepared and now has nearly
ready for distribution an elementary dis
cussion of the nutritive value and pecuni-.
airy economy of food. When we consider
that fully one-half of all the.money earned
by the wage earners of the civilized world
is expended by them for food, the import
ance and utility of such an investigation
is apparent.
Scientific Research.
b department expended in the fiscal
year 1892, s., 1854, 800; and out of that sum
the total amount expended in scientific
research was 45.6 per cent. Butin the year
ending June 80, 1894, out Of atotalexpend-
iture of 81 ,94S, 9sS, 3S, the department APP
piled 51.sper cent Of that sum to scientific
work and investigation. It is, therefore,
very plainly observable that the economies
which have been practiced in the admins
tration Of the department have not been.
atftheexpense of scientific research.