New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-30
TO BENEFIT THE FARMERS.
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY sEcRE-
TARY WILSON.

WORK or THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
FOR THE LAST YEAR REvrEwEp-ENcouk-
AGrMrxr or sUGAR-BEEr CULTURE
MILLIONS or MONEY SHOULD
BE KEPT Vt HOME
Vaccination Oct ae-sccretary Wilson to-day
nr.sented his report to the President. reviewing
the operaiions Of the Department Of Agriculture
for tire last year. One Of the most important rec
concentrations made by him is that agents ~, '"e
Department should lie stationed az edc" % '',0
important American legations abroad Tor me COZ
lection Of information OF int rest 10 AHei'0"'' Ia az
ers. On this subject be say; ..
We arc endcavoring TO get Information rom Ior
s!sn countries with which we ns and prices Ne
ar also taking steps to sCc' s%im so mai seeds
Srp"n or ncy in,eiijrontiv be brought to this
country 10 assist IN the dvcrsihcdtlon 81 C %" for
and aid TO their :aiety. There i necess'y ic C
American agents IN every foreign country 10 w',S b
We send reports who havf mnd .The agrc,iltural
COLLEGES endowed nv Congress- are educating along
those lines 80
The Secretary recommends an increase In the ap-
nropriations in aid Of the Bureau Of Animal m
dn.trv OF the Weather Bureau and OF the puo,i,
cation offices He thinks the Department shouu
be enabled 70 place the result OF important opera
tions at agricultural colleges before Inc en'i'e
country so that the farmers Of each state ma!
get the result Of the good work done in other stats
He refers 10 the efforts OF the Department 10 en-
TEND the foreign markets for American odry anu
livestock products. which he THINKS can oe uoi'o
by making the foreigners familiar with 'hen'' IN
,iead OF sending abroad for seeds. he says the
nocy Of the future Will be ito encourage the m
.roduction Of such seeds as will enable our people
N diversity their crops and keep money at nome
that IA now sent abroad 10 buy what the united
States should produce 49,
Mr. Wilson says the Department Will continue us
rioneer work In the encouragement OF suear-oeei
cu,,ure and expresses the opinion that the coun-
try will within few years produce all the sugar
REQUIRES He believes that nearly all OF the s'o-'
600 600 sent abroad last year for sugar NOES iiu's
wines animals rice. fax, hemp cheese wheat
harley beans. eggs ard silk might have been kept
90 home He also thinks this country should grow
is own chicory. castor beans lavender hcorice
mustard, opium. etc
wiz reference TO horses the Secretary SAYS;
me ne A rn9 erow cattle we have heavy and
proftable export trade In cattle ana may haor a
The department is gathering facts regardng o0f
horse Industry at home and the lea m
what foreign buyers demand. -
The most important work in which the Bureau
Of Animal Industry has been engaged Is. he says
that looking 10 tn, destruction of the cattle ucK
for which II is believed, an agent has been touho
In narsffn oil In which infected cattle are dipped'
Tn, extension OF the meat inspection WORK 10 aoa'
toirs engaged in interstate business Is ieCo' ~
mended 9s is the continuance OF the inspection, OF
axIort ANIMALS in order II maintain the market
which has been secured for them III o'her cou"
tries. . ..-..x. 20 cron
reporting. He says it is extremely cumner sole d
ard m Il instead Of conducting 10 completeness anu
accuracy il would appear from the report OF .ne
statistican 10 defeat its own object IN some neas
INDEFINITE multiplication Of crop reporters weahens
The sense of individual responsibility; lie sronnsy
favors the making of some slight pecunlalS
acknowledgment OF the service of carefully Sc
iected corps of CORRESPONDENTS. located MANY az
The principal agricultural States, and urges tnit
reliance be placed the STATE stastc%I
cultural Importance He recommends the einploH-
ment of principal statistical agent in each STATE