The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-21
NEW RULING MADE
FOR COLLECTORS
American Household Goods Shipped In
From Canada-Plants Poison
GUS to Stock.
Washington Bureau of the Standard, I
No. l145 G Street N, w. !

No. l145 G Street N. w.
Washington, Oct. 1S.-Assistant Sec
retary Spaulding Of the treasury de-.
partment has sent Collector Browne,
at Great Falls, and all other border
collectors, a copy of a ruling of the
department on the admission of house
hold effects of American manufacture
exported to Canada and subsequently
reimported. In his letter he says: "In
regard to the reimportation from Can
ada Of household effects of domestic
origin, l have to state that only such
articles as may have been used abroad
not less than one year can be reimport-
ed free as household effects under the
provisions of the act OF July "a, 1897,
and the suggestion made that free en-
try might be allowed upon the filing
of an oath showing use abroad and in
the United States for period Of one
year is not tenable, inasmuch as the
Dingley law provides that household
effects to be entitled to free entry
must be used abroad not less than one
year. No consular invoices are re-
quired for household effects imported
or reimported into the United States
where it Is shown that they have been
in use abroad not less than one year
The Dingley law provides for the free
entry OF American goods exported and
returned, and in all cases of reim-
portation of such household effects
free entry may be accorded under said
paragraph whether used a year or not,
upon the production Of evidence as to
American origin Of the goods; but
where the value is more than S10O a
consular declaration will be required
under department regulations of Feb.
~, 1896, If not entered as household
goods in use abroad one year or more"
The department Of agriculture has is
sued for general distribution the re-
port made by V. X. Chestnut of the
division of botany on plants poisonous
ito stock. In this report he says
Some plants useful for fodder in
small quantities are deleterious when
fed continuously as hay. Professor
Ladd of North Dakota has shown that
millet hay exercises a very marked
action on the kidneys of stock to
which it has been fed continuously.
and he has succeeded in isoiating a
poisonous slucocide. Luplnes are es-
teemed as good fodder in Montana, but
the enormous fatality which has oc-
casionally attended it's use show that
it is poisonous under some conditions,
probably when the ripe seeds are pres
ent in considerable quantity. The
most serious losses of stock due to
poisonous weeds have been reported
from the western half of the United
States. In three cases that occurred in
October and November. 1898. more than
1000 sheep are reported to have per-
ished. The money value of this loss
cannot well be estimated. but it must
be very considerable sum. The loss
to one correspondent from loco in one
year is estimated at $1,000, and. as is
mentioned in the catalogue. the state
of Colorado paid out $2oa,ooO in bountes
to rid itself of this pest. The loss from
lupine poisoning in Montana during the
fiscal year ending June 80, last, is es-
timated at about $4,000. The number
Of eastern cases of animal poisoning
investigated by the division of botany
during the fiscal year ending June 30
is only six, all of which were of minor
Importance only HOSFORD.
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