Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-05
 AgrIcuIturnl Department.

The secretary of agriculture reports a saving in his department of s6C0,c09 which returned to the treasury.
 Great Britain received from tho United States during the nine months ending September 90. 1891, S05 90 live beef catt c, valued at 0O0 as against 1s26ll cattle, valued at $i6, ,6340Oos during the same period for 1893
 There was a falling off in American wheat exports Of f3 100000 bushels and the secretary is Inclined to believe that wheat may not in the future, be the staple export cereal product of our country but that corn will continue to ad- vance ip importance as m export on account Of the new uses to which 1t Is cvnstantly being
 The exports of agricultural products from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1894. amoulSd to ss2S 363 u2s, being 79.2s per cent of American expSrts of every dis cription and the United kihgCom Of Great Bri ain took m re ihan !4 per cent or all inrn products finding foreign markets
 The amount appropriated fer the weather bureau waS SJ5l. itU. Of that sum Ti3Sshp, or II per cent has been saved and IS returned 10 the treasury. As illustrating the useiulncsS of thf 'rvce. it may be here stated Int the Warnings which We're very generally given ot and October. of the prep,ht yea, resulted in detaining safely Ill port , ;oo vessels, valued ut $36sss,9l3, laden with eurgoes of probably still greater value
 The Appropriation to the bureau Of animal Industry was SS5001l and the expenditures for the year were only 95,4-9.2i, thus leaving unexpended S3J i,570. 76.
 The inspection of beef animals forexport and interstate trade has been continued an1 i2,9H 056 head Were inspected idurng .the year at n cost of la4 cents per head against "A cents Tor 1895. The amount of pork microscopcally ex. amined was 35, ,I31 933 pounds, against 2061', 4lo pounds in the preceding year.
 The secretary of Agriculture recommends that the law providing for the microS 'o- pical inspection of export and interstate meat be so amended as to compel owners of the meat inspected to pay the cost of such lnspec- tion and call attention to the arguments presented in his report in support of this rec ommendation.
 The live beef cattle exported and tagged during the year numbered 363 j35. This is an increase of 69,5 head over the previous year.
 The Fifty-thrd congress in making the appro- priaton for the department for the present fiscal year provided that the secretary of agriculture statement required hy section of said act of March ,, lSST shall oscertain.whether the expend- accordance with the provisions of said act, and shall make report thereon te congress.
 The recommendation contained in the report of the secretary for 1893, that the vicious system of the promiscuous free distribution of itsde- partmentnl documents be abandoned, is again urged. These publications may well be fur nished without cost to public libraries, educa- tional institutions and the officers and libraries of states and of the federal government.
 A further important utility in agricultural statistics is found in the elucidation of the re lation of ti 6 supply of farm products to the demand for them in the markets of the United States and of the world. It is deemed possi- ble that an agricultural census may be taken each year through the agents of the statistical division of the department.
 SuCu course IS cpInultitueu TOT tl1it by the chief of that di vision It's scope would be. The area unaer each of the more import ant crops
 2. The aggregate products of each of such crops.
 The quantity of wheat and corn in the hands of farmers at a date after the spring sowngs and plantings and before the begin ming of harvest and also the quantity of cotton and tobacco remaining In the hands of plant CTS. either at the same date at some other designated time Tho cost of the work is esti= mated at S5o0,tG0,