Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-01
ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Secretary of the Agricul-
tural Department, Wilson.
Recommends Increased Appropriation
to Aid Animal Industry,
The Weather Bureau and Publication Of
fices-He Expresses the Opinion Within
a Few Years the Country Will Raise
All the Sugar that is Required.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-Secretary Will
son Friday presented his report to the
president reviewing the operations OF
the agricultural department for the
past year. The most important rec
ommendation made by him is one that
agents for the department should be
stationed at each of our more import
ant American embassies for the collec-
tion of information of interest to
American farmers.
The secretary recommends an in
crease in the appropriations in aid of
the bureau of animal industry, of the
ather bureau and publication offices.
He thinks the department should be
enabled to place the result of import
ant operations ut agricultural colleges
before the entire country, $50 that the
farmers ofeach state may get the result
of the good work done in other states" !"
He refers to the efforts of the depart
ment to aid the foreign markets for our
dairy and live stock products, which
he thinks can be done by making the
foreigners familiar with them. In
stead of sending abroad for seeds he
says the policy in the future will be ITO
encourage the introduction of such
seeds as will enable our people to di-
versify their crops and keep money at
home that is now sent abroad to buy
what the United States should produce.
Mr.. Wilson says the department will
continue its pioneer work in the en-
couragement of the sugar beet and ex-
presses the opinion that the country
will within a few years raise all the
sugar it requires. He expresses the
opinion that nearly all of the 1882 2,0O0,-
900 sent abroad last year for sugar
hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, fax,
hemp cheese, wheat, barley. beans,
eggs and silk might have been kept q.
home. He also thinks the United
States should grow their chicory, cas-
tor beans, lavender, licIfice, mustard,
opium, etc.
With reference to horses the secre-
tary says: The American farmer can
grow horses as cheaply as he can grow
cattle. We have a heavy and profit
able export trade in cattle, and may
have an export trade equally heavy
and profitable in horses. The depart
ment is gathering facts regarding our
horse industry at home and the re-
quirements of purchasers abroad, so
that our farmers can learn what for
eign buyers demand.
The most important work in which
the animal industry bureau has been
engaged is that looking to the destruc-
ton of the cattle tick, for which it is
believed that an agent has been
found in petroleum product known
as paraffine oil, in which infected cat
tie are dipped.
Commissioner Forman, of the in
ternal revenue bureau, has decided
that unused case stamps for distilled
spirits bottled in bond, can not be re-
deemed by the government These
stamps are issued TO distillers for their
own benefit and protection and have
no relation to the collection of internal
revenue tax. AS the name of the dis
tiller is printed on the stamps they are
not available for use by other par
ties, and hence the commissioner de-
clines to redeem them at the govern
ment's expense.
Gen. Longstreet Succeeds Gen. Hampton.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 0.-President Nc
Kinley Friday appointed Gen. James
Longstreet, of Georgia, commissioner
of railroads, vice Gen. Wade Hampton,
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