The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-18
M0RTON'S THIRD REPORT
Statistics COncerning the Bureau q
Agriculture.
DECLINE IN YANKEE BUTTER
America Supplies Less Than One Per Cent.
Of the British Demand for Foreign But.
ter-Intcrcsting Facts Concerning
Advertised Food Analysis.

Washington, Nov. v.17.-Secretary Nor
toms third annual report is briefer
| document than the two which preceded
| 1t. 1t discusses the work of the several
bureaus of the department, asserting
| that expenditures have been reduced in
some of them for the sake Of economy
and increased in others for the sake of
| efficiency. Much of the matter of the
report has been anticipated In publica-
tions from time to time during the fiscal
year and since its close.
Speaking of the export in dairy pro-
ducts of the United States the report
| points out the fact that in cheese the
United States. while a large shipper to
British markets, hold the conspicuously
unhatterinE place in the extreme rear
as to quality and price, and as the only
one Of the competitors for this trade
whose business shows serious falling
off.
This he attributes to the deteriorati ton
in the quality of American cheeses by
adulteratiOn with oleo and other in
gradients. In butter the United States
Is out of the race, supplying less than
one per cent. of the British demand for
foreign buffers, Notwithstanding the
fact that Great Britain imported in
eight months S46.0O00O0 worth of butter.
The work of the weather bureau for
the year cost 1878, ,439, and owing to re-
duced expenditures, which were accom-
panied by increased efficiency, S55, 900
will ultimately be covered into the
treasury from the amount appropriated
1t Is claimed that the warnings of cold
waves secured from freezing more than
$2'2I5.oOO worth of perishabie agricul-
tural products which otherwise would
have been lost.
The secretary calls attention to the
rpnOrf 80
statistics, which reiterates an argument
In favor of taking an annual agricul-
tural census.
Glimpse at Advertisers.
Speaking of the work Of the division
or chemistry, Secretary Morton makes
the Following vigorous protest. "The
people arc frequently oisled nv ncr-
verted references to the analysis of
this division by advertisers of baking
powders, food products, etc, whose
products have been analyzed in the
course of investigation of food adulter-
etions or other official work. In the
hundreds of advertised that have been
noticed in which the work of this divi-
sion has been referred to there is
scarcely a single case in which the facts
were accurately set forth as officially
published. There Is, therefore. just rea-
retary of agriculture that there should
be some method adopted by means of
which the advertising misrepresenta-
tions of official analysis, intended orig
inally to protect the people, could be
prevented"
1t is proposed during the coming year
to secure the cooperation of agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
in the object lesson method OF dissemi-
mating information regarding improved
roads. 1
They will be taught to construct mo-
del roads on the farms of their expert
ment stations or on their college
grounds, where they can be regularly
used. and thus become lesson to all
farmers who visit them.
The secretary condemns the gratui-
tous distribution Of the publications OF
the department In the year 1S94-b
they aggregated in bulk 500 tons. the
distribution of which added to the de-
ficiency of the postofflce department.