The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-12-09

iCultuIt HAS kittht fHCitltits LOT po5l-
graduate work to Ave hundred young
men during the last seven years, propar-
Ing them ror advanced lines OF WORK m
the Department and in the State insti-
tutions.
The facts concerning meteorology and
its relations to plant and animal life
are being Systematically inquired into.
Temperature and moisture are control
ling Factors In all agricultural operations.
The seasons OF the cyclones of the Car
rtbean' Sea and their paths are being fore
casted with increasing accuracy. The cold
winds that come from the north are an>
tlcipated and their times and intensity
told TO farmers, gardeners, and fruiters
in all southern localities.
We sell two hundred and fifty million
dollars worth OF animals and animal pro-
In addition to supplying our own people
more cheaply and abundantly than any
other nation Is able to provide for Its
people. Successful manufacturing de-
pends primarily on cheap food, which
accounts to considerable extent for
otr growth In this direction. The Do
partment Of Agriculture, by careful In.
spection of meats, guards the health of
our people and gives clean bills of health
to deserving exports; IL IL prepared to
deal promptly with imported diseases of
animals, and maintain the excellence of
our fiocks and herds in this respect.
There should be an annual census OF the
live stock of the Nation
We sell abroad about six hundred mill
products every year. Strenuous efforts
are being made to import from foreign
countries such grains as are suitable to
our varying localities. Seven years ago
helping the rico growers on tho Gulf
coast to secure seeds from the Orient
suited to their conditions, and by giving
them adequate protection they now sup
ply home demand and export TO the Is
lands of the caribbean Sea and to other
rice growing countries. Wheat and 9TH
er grains have boon Imported from light
rainfall countries to our lands In the
West and Southwest that have not grown
crops because of light precipitation, re-
sulting In an extensive addition to our
ritory that can not be irrigated. Ten
million bushels of first-class macaroni
wheat were grown from these experi-
mental importations last year. Fruits
ing imported from all the countries of
the Old World-the fig from Turkey, the
almond from Spain, the dste from AL
Reria. the mango from India. We are
helping our fruit growers to get their
crops into European markets by study
Ing methods OF preservation through re-
frigeratton, packing, and handling. which
have been quite successful. We are help
Ing our hop growers by importing vari-
eties that ripen earlier and later than the
kinds they have been raising, thereby
lengthening the harvesting season. The
cotton crop of the country is threatened
weevil. Our pathologists will find Inn
mune varieties that will resist the root
disease. and the bollworm can be dealt
with, but the boil weevll Is n serious me-
mace to the cotton crop. 1t Is Central
American Insect that has become accli-
mated In Texas and has done great dam
age. A scientist OF the Department of
Agriculture has found the weeyil at
home in Guatemala being kept In check
by an ant, which has been brought to
our cotton field for observation. 1t Is
hoped that 1t may serve a good purpose
The soils of the country are getting at
tention from tho farmers standpoint
and Interesting results are following
We have duplicates of the soils that
the filler tobacco in Cuba. 1t will be only
question OF time when the large
amounts paid to these countries will be
paid to our own people. The reclama-
ton OF alkali lands Is progressing, to give
object lessons to our people In methods
by which worthless lands may be made
productive.
The insect friends and enemies of the
farmer are getting attention. The enemy
of the San Jose scale was found near the
Great Wall of China, and Is now clean
ing up all our orchards. The fg-fertil-
!zing insect imported from Turkey has
helped to establish an industry In Cali
fornia that amounts to from fifty to one
hundred tone OF dried figs annually and
is extending over the Pacific coast. A
parasitic fly from South Africa Is keep
ing in subject.on the black scale, the
worst pest of the orange and lemon in
dustry in California.
Careful preliminary work Is being done
towards producing our own silk. The
mulberry is being distributed In large
numbers, eggs are being imported and
improved reels were import
ed from Europe last year, and two expert
reelers were brought to Washington to
reel the crop of cocoons and teach the
art to our own people.
The crop-reporting system of the De-
pertinent of Agriculture is being brought
closer to accuracy every year. 1t has two
hundred and fifty thousand reporters Sc
lected from people In eight yocations In
life. 1t has arrangements with most Eu-
timates, so that our people. may know as
nearly as possible with what they must
IRRIGATION.
During the two and a half years that
have elapsed since the passage of the re-
clamation act rapid progress has been
made in the surveys and examinations
Of the. opportunities for reclamation In
the thirteen States and three Territories
of the arid West. Construction has al
ready been begun on the largest and most
important of the irrigation works, and
plans are being completed for works
which will utilize the funds now avail
able. The operations are being carried
OH by the Reclamation Service, a corps
OF engineers selected through competl-
n tive eiyisesviee ny service examine examinations This
consulting and constructing engineers as
well as v,srious experts in mechanical
and legal matters, and Is composed
largely OF men who have spent most of
their lives in practical affairs connected
with irrigation. The larger problems have
been solved and II now remains to exc
cute with care, economy, and thorough
ness the work which has been laid out.
All important details are being carefully
considered by boards of consulting engi-
neers. selected for their thorough knowl-
edge and practical experience. Each
project is taken up on the ground by COM
petent men and viewed from the stand
point of the creation of prosperous
homes and of promptly refunding to the
Treasury the cost of construction. The
reclamation act has been found to be re-
complete and effective, and so
broad in its provisions that a wide range
OF undertakings has been possible under
II. At the same time, economy Is guar
anteed by the fact that the funds must
be returned to be used over
again.
FORESTS
1t is the cardinal principle of the for
est-reserve policy of this Administration
that the reserves are for use, Whatever
with the use of their resources
is to be avoided by every possible means.
But these resources must be used In such
a way as to make them permanent.
The forest policy of the Government Is
Just now a subject of vivid public inter-
est throughout the West and to the peo-