Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-12-06

September 30th, 1894, the United States
exported to Great Britain 222, GIG, COG
pounds of pork; of apples, 1000, ooC
bushels, valued at So, 500, O00; and OF
horses, 2,S11, at an average value of
$139 per head. There was a falling off in
American wheat exports of Is, SOC, O00
bushels, and the Secretary is inclined
to believe nat wheat may not in the
future be the staple export cereal
product of our country but that corn
will continue to advance in Importance
as an export on account of the new uses
to which it is constantly being appro-
priated.
The exports of agricultural products
from the United States for the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1894, amounted
to 1928, 1863, OBS, being 1928 per cent of
American exports of every description,
and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain tool more than 81 per cent. of all
farm products finding foreign markets.
The Department of Agriculture has
undertaken during the year two new
and important lines of research. The
first relates to grasses and forage plants,
with the purpose of i%nstructing and ia
miliarizing the people as to the distinct
i've grasses of the United States and
teaching them how to introduce valua-
BILE foreign forage plants which may be
adapted to this country. The second
relates to agricultural soils and crop pro-
duction involving the analyses of sam
| pies of soils from all sections of the Amer
ican Union, to demonstrate their adapta-
bility to particular plants and crops. Me-
chanical analyses of soils may be of such
inestimable utility that it is foremost in
the new lines of agricultural research
and the Secretary therefore recommends
that a division having it in charge be
permanently established in the depart
ment.
The amount appropriated for the
weather bureau was 1851, 100. Of that
sum S139, 800, or IA per cent, has been
saved and is returned to the Treasury.
AS illustrating the usefulness of this
service it may be here stated that the
warnings which were very generally
given of two tropical storms occurring
in September and October of the pres
ent year, resulted in OBTAINING safely
in port 1905 vessels valued at
$134,2 S3, 913 laden with cargo of
probably still greater value. What
is much more important and
gratifying, many human lives OF these
ships were undoubtedly saved.
The appropriation to the Bureau of
Animal Industry was $3.50, 600 and the
expenditures for h year were only
1895, 429. "a, thus leaving unexpended
1884, $40. rs. The inspection of beef an
imals for export and interstate trade
has been continued, and II, 944, 056 head
were inspected during the year, at a
cost of Il cents per head against A
cents for 1898! The amount of pork
microscopically examined was 80, 49,
937 pounds, against 20, 40 pounds
in the preceding year. The cost of
this inspection has been diminished
from 81 cents per head in 1898 to 81
cents in 1894. The expense of inspect
ing the pork sold in 1894 to Germany
and France by the United States was
SSS, 922. 10. The quantity inspected was
greater by 5,OOO,0 900 pounds thai dur
ing the preceding year, when the cost
of such inspection was 81, 72O, 367. Os.
The Secretary of Agriculture recon-
mends hat the law providing for the
microscopic inspection of export and
Interstate meat be so amended as to
compel owners of the meat inspected to
pay the cost of such inspection, and l
call attention to the arguments present
ed in his report in support of this rec
ommendation.
The live beef cattle exported and
tagged during the year numbered $685.
535. This is an increase of SO, 533 head
over the previous year. The sanitary
inspection of cattle shipped to Europe
has cost an average of 3.104 cents each
animal, and the cost of inspecting
Southern cattle and the disinfection OF
l CARS III Tic SIOUX YdEuS average q. . CclUS
per animal.
The scientific inquiries of the Bureau
of Animal Industry have progressed
rapidly during the year. Much tuber
culine and mallein have been furnished
to State authorities for use in the agri-
cultural colleges and experiment sta
tions for the treatment of tuberculosis
and CHAMBERS. Quite recently this de
partment has published the results Of
its Investigations of bovine tuberculosi:
and it's researches will be vigorously
continued. Certain herds in the Dis
trict of Columbia will be thoroughly
inspected n will probably supply ad
equate scope for the department to in
diligently prosecute it's scientific worl
and furnish sufficient material for pur
poses of illustration, description anC
definition. The sterilization of mill
; suspected of containing the bacllli o
!, ! tuberculosis has been during the yea
: very thoroughly explained in a cafe
by DIR. ID. E.. Salmon, he chief of tn,
i bureau, and given general circulation
J throughout the country.
: The Office of experiment stations
which is a part of the United State
Department of Agriculture, has durin
the past year engaged itself almos
wholly in preparing for publication
9 works based upon h reports of agri
I | CuIGuIdl OADCIlinCut StdGlOHo anu OullC
! institutions for agricultural inquiry il
. the United States and foreign countries
! The Secretary, in his report for 1898
: called attention to the fact that the ar
preparations made for the support c
experiment stations throughout tn
Union were the only moneys taken GU
of the national Treasury. by act of Cor
o gress for which no accounting to Fec
eral authorities was required. Respond
ing to this suggestion the Fifty-thir
q Congress, in making the appropriate
for the department for the present fiscs
year, provided that the Secretary of As
+ riculture shall prescribe the form {
annual financial statement required b
+ section 3 of said act of March 2, 1888
shall ascertain whether the expend
q lures under the appropriation hereb
i, made are in accordance with the pr,
. visions of said act and shall make r.
n port thereon to Congress.
+ The best service of the statistician {
the Department of Agriculture is tt
Il ascertainment, by diligence and care, {
l. the actual and real conditions favorab
n or unfavorable to the farmers an
farms of the country, and to seek tt
l. causes which produce those condition
q to the end that the facts ascertaine
may guide their intelligent treatmen
~ In obedience to this law the Depar
ment of Agriculture Immediately sci
out blank forms Of expense accoun
each station, and proposes in additiC