Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-16

sugar beet industry. We have been
importing 20 tons of seed from
France and Germany. In 1898 we
produced $4,000 tons of sugar from
beets; In 1899, $4,000 tons; in 1890,
$4,000 tons. This year we will pro-
duce upwards of 100000 tons of sugar
from beets. There will also be about
40 factories at work this year max
ing beet sugar. It is great indus
try.
"Heretofore the United States has
never succeeded in manufacturing
frst-class macaroni. We began inn
porting macaroni wheats from the
Russian empire, and this year there
will be grown in our country about
100000 bushels of this wheat in the
semi-arid regions. Very soon it will
be unnecessary for us to import
$4,000, 900 pounds of macaroni annual
ly, for all that we require will be
grown by our own people, and a
great part of it upon lands which
have not been good food producers.
| We are also importing finer bread
| wheats and distributing them
throughout the wheat growing re.
gion.
1.-The Smyrna fig industry is we'll es-
tablished in California. Fifteen tons
of figs will be raised this year. Date
palms from Tripoli are being success
fully grown at Phoenix, Ariz. These
two industries are Of great value and
will increase from year to year.
CDR. Knapp, Of this department, will
4 soon be on the way to the China seas
to study the forage crops OF
those countries, in order that sim
liar crops may be produced on
our southern farms; also to as
certain what plant in the Philip
pine islands will save the expense of
sending hay from this country for 49,
; 900 horses and mules; also to find soft
rice for our stock feeding. His work
will be of vast Importance and value to
our people.
I'm like manner we are studying for
estry in all ATTITUDES. We are intro
ducing new grasses and legumes for
every American latitude. Our object
is to enable the United States to pro-
our necessities. not merely for the
continued prosperity of our whole
!, people, but in order that the whole
e world may see that we are ready to
: meet any combinations, trade OF
otherwise, which may be formed
5 against us, as suggested in many quar-.
. tiers, and threatened in few local
, tiles"
II Secretary Wilson then reverted tx
: the work of his department in th'
:. scientific branches which include thu
+ weather bureau, the division of sta
t tistics, section of foreign markets, bu
Y reau of animal industry, division o
y chemistry, office of experiment sta
: tions, biological survey, divisions o
o entomology, forestry, botany, agros
!, tology, pomology, soils, seeds, garden
y and grounds, and public roads. Their
q is veritable department of life-tim
Q study in each of these divisions. Tn
;, men of science working under the d
rection of the secretary make inyesti
e CATIONS into the diseases of live stool
+ and make Investigations and exper
ments for the prevention or extirpa
ton of those diseases.
They make special studies of tn
best means of extending our agricu
tural export trade, by cooperatin
with consuls of this country in fol
eign ports. They study soils, fertili.
ers, authorizations of foods, their pre-
vention and detection. They collee
and disseminate information by pull
I fishing accounts Of agricultural il
designations at home and abroas
They are doing Invaluable work i
studying soils in their relation +
crops, the mapping of soils, the il
vestigation and mapping Of aka
lands; also the Investigations and pul
LEGATIONS concerning the growth, GU
ing and fermentation Of tobacco. Til
seed division alone, which is particl
larly of interest to individual farm
ers. performs an amount of work tn
publication Of which, In detail, woul
oI fill a volume.
e The secretary says: All OF til
I'll wealth of the world is in the soil. W
0. have it, 1t is our duty to develop j
fs