Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-28

done before the present system is
reliable for intership communication
or before any two systems can work
within the same field without each
rendering the other useless, such
progress has been made by the gov,
ernment eXperimenters that, with no
interference by private systems, sta
ton can be successfully operated
over at least $50 miles of coast line.
and they are now in operation on the
North Carolina and Virginia coasts.
and soon will be instituted between
the FarallOne islands and the main
land and Tatoosh island and the main
land, On the Pacific coast"
Animal industry.
The grand total of animals and
animal products exported during the
year exceeded $250,000,000 in value
This bureau inspected for export 1856.
900 cattle, 228,000 sheep, and $4,000
horses and mules, and nearly 1,e00
vessels carrying live stock. Imported
animals were also inspected to the
suggests that with the enormous in
terests our stock-raisers have at
stake, and inspection or quarantine
affording after all, a relative. not an
absolute guarantee Of protection, il
might be well for this country 70
follow the example of Great Britain
and exclude live stock from other
countries entirely. The meat inspec,
ton service involved the inspection
at time Of slaughter of nearly $4,000.
600 animals. Of the more than s..
100000 cattle inspected, the con.
demned carcases were about one
fourth OF ] per cent; of the 6.500,000
sheep, one-tenth OF / per cent; and of
Z4,oOo,OU0 hogs, One-third Of ! per
cent. In the control of indigenous
diseases, 100000 inspections were
made and over $4,000 cars disinfecte1
in the Texas fever service alone. In
the repression Of scabies in sheen
nearly 100000 animals were in
spected and over 100000 dipped
under the supervision Of the depart.
me1t inspectors. In combating the
disease known as black leg the bureau
distributed 100000 doses of vaccine,
the result being to reduce losses in
affected herds to less than ! per cent.
where formerly it was in most cases
ABOUT 10 per cent. To aid in detect
ing tuberculosis in cattle and CHAMBERS
IN horses over $4,000 doses of tubar.
culin and 1000 doses of mallein have
been supplied. The secretary point:
out the serious evil resulting from 4
system Of state inspection which. if it
became general, would effectually
prevent the marketing of live stock IN
some sections, and would DESTROY
much of the usefulness of the federal
inspection. He regards the present
conditions as so menacing to the III.
rerests Of the cattle industry in the
west and southwest that he has re-
quested the attorney general to CO.
operate in bringing the matter before
the supreme court for decision as to
the cOnstitutionalitv of these state
laws.
Plant Physiology and Pathology.
investigations in plant physiology
and pathology have been lately de-
voted to the study of cotton diseases
diseases Of orchard fruits, and oil
forest trees and construction timber |
An interesting discovery to cotton |
is reported to a cowpea re
slstant TO the fungus that destroys the |
cotton roots. The cowpea being used /
IN rotation with cotton, the securing a
resistant cowpea will be of the great
est possible value to cotton growers
remarkable success is reported in ex-
per1ments in plant breeding to secure
of cotton resistant 10 wilt
and other diseases. Numerous valu-
able hybrids have also been develop
I'd. One from an American upland
cotton and an Egyptian variety
promises to be greatly superior to
either parent. The department has
Been for several years trying to secure
by breeding race of oranges resis-
ant to frost. A cross Of hardy
Ia panese with the Florida sweet
range has resulted in the hardest
evergreen orange known, and there IS
sromies of ultimately securing a fruit