The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
DOWN AT CAMP ROACHE,
Systems of the Different Ma
tons Explained by Charles
II. Shinn.
Ross Speaks of the Tariff as Source
of Revenue and as Means
of Protection.

WRIGHTS, CAL, Aug Sat this
mornings session at Camp Roache, Charles
H. Shinn, inspector of the university ex-
pertinent stations, delivered an address
upon the experiment station system as
developed in Europe and America, with
practical reference to the more and hitherto
unpublished details of the work in Cali
fornia.
He began by explaining the methods and
some of the results of Sir John Lawes'
famous Rothanstead experiments with
crops and fertilizers. He next described
the development of Government station
work. in Germany, France and Russia, and
then took up the American stations more
in detail, showing how they were sup
ported and conducted; some in connection
with colleges and universities, some as
separate institutions. In this connection
be alluded to the excellent character of the
work done by such men as Professor
Bailey, Professor Atwater, Professor Budd
and others and described some of the spe-
cial experiments carried on at the Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, Cornell, Rhode
Island, Michigan and Iowa stations.
The Inspector then turned his attention
to California. He described each station
in detail and gave the method OF organiza-
ton adopted to secure efficiency He mar
rated very infinitely the progress of typi-
cal experiment at each separate station,
and gave humorous and picturesque &C
count of some of the experiences of sta
ton workers and station staff.
He closed with hearty invitation to all
present to visit the central station at Berke-
ley and various outlying stations. The
lecture gave very clear, honest and in
teresting birdseye view of the invaluable
experiment station system of California.
The afternoon lecture by Professor Ross
on the tariff question was concise and in
teresting. He regarded the tariff as tax
for the support of the Government and as
a scheme of protection. As a tax the in
crease of price to the consumer goes to
support the Government, as protection the
enhancement goes into the pockets of the
protected producers, he claimed.
He thought the tariff at present unjust,
because necessaries are taxed more in pro-
portion than luxuries, and the tariff pro-
| lection he considered unjust because its
benefits go to the manufacturing class and
| not to other producers.
He said the manufacturer enjoys almost
the entire home market for manufactures,
but at a higher price than rules in the
| foreign markets. The farmer possesses
almost the entire home market for agri-
cultural staples, but at price no higher
than the prices in the world markets.
Therefore. the manufacturer sells in a
protected market and the farmer in an
unprotected market, while both buy in a
! protected market. The farmer, therefore,
is at disadvantage, and can sustain the
present system only so long as he en-
joys monopoly OF improved farm ma
chinery.
This advantage he is losing. and there
fore he must. if protection continues, be
compensated by an export bounty.
The educational committee of the State
grange in charge of the matter have found
it necessary to change the place of the
closing three days meeting from Santa
Cruz to San Jose, although all other ar
rangements will be as heretofore pub
lished.