The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-19
A Monumental Report.

A Monumental Report.
A Cabinet officer who takes his office Sc
is the Hon. JAMES WILSON, the NJ
Secretary of Agriculture. His first repo
addressed to the President, begins with
luminous statement of the general beau
and usefulness of the Department of Ag
culture, and then proceeds to touch ligh'
upon the following subjects, among othe
Animal products and foreign markets.
Experiments with sugar beets.
Opportunities for new Industries.
Advance in seed distribution.
Need Of qualified agents abroad.
Grasses and forage plants.
The department sclentlsts and their work
The worlds markets for farmers.
Experimental exports Of butter.
Our butter trade abroad.
The London butter market.
Improvement In transportation OF butter.
Cold storage or butter on steamers.
Better reputation for American butter.
Facts about American butter.
Butter packages for the London market.
Color and flavor OF butter.
Conditions affecting exports Of buttor.
Contracts abroad for butter.
Inc prODlomS OF tuc II D uOHno
Need OF thorough home training.
The teaching Of domestic science. @
The departments work for the homo.
Proposed help In the training OF womon-
Meat inspection.
Microscopic inspection OF pork.
Inspection of vessels and export animals
Southern cattle inspection.
inspection OF imported animals.
Proposed extension Of meat inspection
Payment for microscope inspection.
Quarantine of imported amin Ais.
Inspection certificates for milk producta-
Cattle affected with Texas fever.
Destruction Of cattle ticks.
Black leg.
Rabies.
Eradication of sheep soab.
Hog cholera and tuberculosis.
Work OF the biochemic section.
The geological laboratory.
Need of an animal e1 periment station.
Greater laboratory facilities needed.
The Weather Bureau.
Climate and crop bulletins.
Storm signal stations.
Extension Of weather service.
Money needed for new weather stations.
Shelters required for Instruments.
Location of weather bureau ofhces.
New WtulneT bureau tthtlpuS lOE Cliohs
The Mississippi food Of 1897.
Effectiveness of storm warnings.
Growth IN value of the weather service.
Standard danger signals desirable.
Extension OF meteorological service.
Study OF the upper air with kites.
Vegetable physiology and pathology.
Biological survey.
Zones for corn. wheat. and oats.
Economic relations OF mammals and birds.
Fibre Investigations.
Hemp and ramie machinos.
Study Of typical soils.
Improved methods OF experiment with soils.
Study OF soil constituents.
Study OF foods.
Onicial agricultural chemists.
Proposed chemical Investigations
Sugar beet investigation.
Inquiry as to use OF street sweepings.
Spread OF the San Jos6 scale.
study OF the Mexican cotton-boll weevil.
Foreign insect pests.
chronological Investigations
chronological publications.
Seed distribution.
Section Of foreign markets.
Road inquiry.
Division OF agrostology.
Forage problems in the cattle ranges.
Grasses from ury regions OF tne Oiu ora.
Division OF gardens and grounds.
Distribution of plants.
Camphor and olives as now crops.
Report on Florida soils.
The soils collection.
Water contents of soils.
Records TO establish drought conditions.
Measurement OF soil moisture.
influence of cultivation on soils
Physical properties OF soils.
Division OF forestry.
Extension OF forestry inv estigations.
Urgent demands for experiment stations.
Difficulties In State station work.
Experiments for Alaska,
Work OF Alaska Commission
Botanical Investigations.
Inquiries for new crops.
Division OF poInolOgy.
Experiments with fgs.
Tests OF root grating,
lnadequacy OF agricultural publications
Call for an Increase OF appropriations.
We depart from II usual practic
| presenting this brief list of a few of the
les Illuminated by the S~ecretary's ger
1t looks like II poem. 1t is, in fact,
epic of conscientious and %congenial la
or. perhaps, rather n bucolic. From b
training for farmers daughters to the
croscopic inspection of pork, from
study of the upper air by means of kit
blackleg and sheep scab and the ne
increased appropriations, this labor
statesman appears TO have neglected I
ing that m properly within the
range of his official duties.
No, he neSlects nothing, not even
personal tribute TO the Hon. WILLIAM
KINLEY, to whom the report is address
This brief summary of the work of the d
ment Will give producers an outline OF the co
hensive scope OF its efforts to help observers a
vestigators where ways and means for prose'
research into natures unknown secrets ara b
their reach. The time Is suspicious for pushi