The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-02
ENTITLED TO BENEFITS
DEEP INTEREST IN FARMERS OF
WEST INDIES.
MIR. Wilson Proposes to Investigate
the Agricultural Needs of Our
Island Acquisitions-Market For
American Farm Products In the
orient-Dip For Texas Fever.

addition TO discussing domestic prob
lens, reviews our agricultural relations
in foreign fields. He calls for an emer-
gency appropriation of a lump sum for
future. requirements, that cannot all be
anticipated specifically. Exploration
by scientists of territorial acquisitions
and the sudden appearance of pests are
some OF the possible emergencies.
Discussing agricultural resources in
our new island acquisitions, Secretary
Wilson says: In the territories re-
Gently brought under the control of the
United States government, agricultural
interests urgently call for attention by
this department. Hawaii and the West
Indian islands depend almost eXclu-
Sively for their prosperity upon their
agricultural productions. It behooves
the department, therefore, to place
itself at the earliest moment possible
in a position to extend to the aSricul-
turiSts of those territories which have
or may come under the United States
flag, the services and benefits which it
renders to the farmers of the United
States. The increased trade relations
which may be looked for between the
United States and its inSular Dependent
cies, moreover, render the conditions of
agriculture in the latter and the char
acter and extent of their productions
matters of profound interest to the peo-
pie Of the United States.
I'm the interest of our own agricul-
ture, not only must the agricultural re-
sources of these islands be studied
closely and intelligently, but the dan
gers which threaten agriculture in
these territories in the form of plant
diseases or inspect pests must be made
the subject of special investigation,
with view to provide agriculture there
with preventive or remedial agencies,
and also to secure our own agriculture
from the possibility OF their introduce
ton into this country. 1t is urgently
necessary, therefore, that congress
should. as speedily as possible, provide
fund for the use of this department
in making such Investigations as may
be necessary into the agricultural inter
ests in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba and
the Philippines
Considerable space is devoted to the
question Of exporting dairy products
to Europe. The secretary says that,
owing to a better home demand, it is
not commercially profitable to send
butter to Europe just now, as the home
demand at present absorbs the supply.
MARKET IN THE ORIENT.
The trade in American farm products
is growing in the China seas, and, in
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in Japan, China and other countries of
the Pacific ocean, an agent is now in
that region establishing agencies, to
which the department will make trial
shipments and gather all information
possible for the American producer.
The secretary recommends the extern
sion and adoption of the provisions Of
the law regarding the inspection and
certificate CT meats and meat products
for export, so as to make them app~s
to butter and cheese.
There is an evident necessity" the
report says, for the inspection of many
articles imported from foreign coun-
tries that contain substances injurious
to the public health. The department
chemists are doing work along this line
that suggests a more comprehensive in
quiry The department now buys sam
pies for analysis in the open market.
1t may be necessary, however, where
| there is ground for suspicion and a
necessity for Identification of
source, to open packages at ports of
entry, as it is proposed in foreign
countries TO do, with our exports in
certain cases"
This brief statement IS the only ref
erence the secretary makes to the re-
strictive measures adopted by certain
! foreign governments respecting our
products.
The secretary enlarges upon the need
of nature teaching in the common
| schools.
DIP FOR FEVER TICKS.
The report announces that the bureau
! of animal industry has perfected dip
which takes the fever ticks from cattle
/ so they can be- taken north at any sea-
! son; that it has continued experiments
with anti-toxine serum to prevent and
/ cure hog cholera, and it is recommend
ed that this discovery, having been
made by public officials at expense,
should not be diverted to private cost
and that the serum manufacture
] should be continued under government
control, at least for some years to come.
| The Texas fever dipping stations Will
! be established at convenient points be-
fore the next Cual antine season. The
! results from the black leg vaccine ind1-
! cate the percentage of loss in herds
! mas been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent
to less than l per cent This indicates
! Jnat if generally used it will tend to
eradicate the disease completely. De-
/ tailed figures as to microscopic inspec-
4 ton Of meat are submitted.
The report says good work has been
done in hybridizing the Grange and
other ci:rous plants and in the crossing
! of pine apples, increasing the size and
l.
Observation and forecast weather
stations have been extended around the
! Caribbean sea and increased through
the interior of this country, and es-
pecially in the mountain states. The
natural life zones of the United States
are being surveyed and the areas best
adapted to various crops determined
Four scientific explorers Of the depart
ment are abroad getting seeds and
! plants in Russia, the Mediterranean re-
gion, the China sea and South America
Strenuous efforts are making to per-
feet crop statistics, and Statistician
| Hyde has taken successful measures to
preclude accurate premature state
ments of the official figures.
The Alaskan interior viii be explored
next summer to learn its capacity to
support population, while coastal re-
sources already have been determined.
! Steel rails are stated to be the coming
material for poor roads where hard
rock is not convenient.
Regarding forestry, species adapted
! to dry regions are now being intro
duced, better methods Of handling for
est lands in public and private owner
ship are being introduced by govern
ment agents and fire prevention and
fire fighting are being studied.
Andre Expedition Wrecked.
London, Dec. "A special dispatch
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