Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-08

gives clean bills Of health to deserving ex
LOFTS LOFTS J, Is i, prepared to deal promptly witt
me excellence Of our HOeks and herds II
tnls respect. There should be an annua
census OF the live stock Of the nation.
We sell abroad $500 OOO OOO yvorfb n
plants and their products every wear
StrenuOus efforts are being made to impor
from foreign countries such grains as ar
suitable To our varying localities. Sever
years ago we bought three-fourths of ON
rice: by helping the rice growers on IN,
gillf coast TO secure seeds from the orfen
suited 10 their conditions. and by giyIn,
Ihem adequate protection. they now suDDli
home demand and export to the islands n
the Caribbean sea and TO other rice-growIn,
countries. Wheat and other grains bay,
been Imported from light-rainfall countrie
10 our lands in the west and southwest tina
have not grown crops because of light Dre
cipitatlOn. resulting In an extensive add
ton to our cropping area and our home
making territory that can not be irrigated
Ten million bushels of first-cIass macaron
wheat were grown from these experimental
lInDOFtatl0ns last year Fruits suitable Z,
our soils and climates are Deing imported
from all the countries Of the old world
me hg from Turkey, the almond from
spain. the date from Algeria. the mang,
from lndia. We are helping our frni
growers to get their crops into European
markets by studying methods Of preserya
non through refrigeration. packing anC
handling. which have been quite successful
Ing varieties that ripen earlier and late
than the kinds they have been raising
thereby lengthening the harvesting season
The cotton crop Of the country Is threat
ened with root rot. the bOll-worm. and tn,
Doll weeviI. Our Psychologists will find i'm
mune varieties that will resist the roo
disease. and the boll-worm can be deal
with, but the boil weevil is a serious men
ace 10 the cotton crop. 1t is q Contra
American insect that has become acclimatef
in Texas and has done great damage
scientist Of the department of agricutur,
has found The weevil at home in Guate
mala being kept in check by an ant which
has been brought to our cotton fields 70,
observation. 1t Is hoped that 1t NAV serve
a good purpose
We have duplicates of the soils that
grow the wrapper tobacco In Sumatra and
the filler tobacco in Cuba. 1t will be only
a question of time when the large amounts
paid to these countries will be paid to ON
own people.
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 cleaning III
all our orchards. The -fertilizing insect
~ IMPORTED from Turkey has helped to estab
llsh an Industry in California that amounts
70 from 30 TO 100 tons of dried figs annu.
ally. and Is extending over the Pacific
coast parasitic fly from south Africa
Is keeping in subsection the black scale. the
worst pest OF the orange and lemon indus.
try In California Careful preliminary
work Is being done towards producing ouf
own SILK. The mulberry is ueino distrib-
MED IN large numbers. eggs are being i'm
ported and distributed. improved reels were
imported 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
Irrigation
During the two and half years that
nave elaDsp6 since tho Of
reclamation act rapid progress has been
maze In the surveys and examinations of
the opportunities for reclamation in the
thirteen states and three territories of the
arid west The larger problems have been
solved and 1t now remains to execute with
care. economy. and thoroughness the work
which has been laid out
Forests
1t is the cardinal principle of the forest
reserve policy of this administration that
the reserves are for use Whatever inter.
teres with the use of their resources is ia
De 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 lust now
Il subject of vivid public interest through
OUT the west and to the people of the
hlted states in general. The forest re.
serves themselves are Of extreme value to
the present as well as to the future
welfare Of all the western public
land states. They powerfully affect the
use and disposal of the public lands They
are or special Importance because they pre-
serve the water supply and the supply of
timber for domestic purposes and so DrO-
mote settlement under the reclamation act.
Every administrative officer concerned is
of the necessity for the proposed
consolidation of forest work In the DEPART
mcnt of agriculture The interests of the
nation at large and of the west in particu-
lar have suffered greatly because of the de
lay.
Game Preserves
In connection with the work of the for
eSt reserves | desire again to URGE the i'm
portance Of authorizing the president to set
aside certain portions of these reserves or
other public lands as game refugees for the
preservation of the bison the wapiti and
other large beasts once so abundant in our
woods and mountains and on our great
plains. and now tending toward extinction
Ihe canyon of the Colorado should be made
4 national park and the national mark sys
tenn should include the Yosemite and as
many as possible of the groves of giant
rceS in California.
Pensions
The veterans of the civil war have a
lain upon the nation such as no other
body of our citizens possess. The pension
bureau has never in its history been man
aged In more satisfactory manner than is
now the case,
Postal Affairs
In the postofhce department the service
has increased in efficiency. and conditions
as 10 revenue and expenditure continue sat
stactorN. The Increase of revenue during
he year was S9.35S. ISL, or 60 per cent
The total receipts amounting to Si433S2-
vi The expenditures were 49,. 800 l16
nm increase of aOout . per cent over the
previous year. being thus SS.oT9 492 in ex-
ivSS ol the current revenue. Included in
heSe expenditures was a total appropria-
tion "f Sl2,oa663T for the continuation
al extension OF the rural free-delivery
elNtce. which was an increase of S4.a02.
m$' IN the preceding fiscal year. Large
as this expo nditure has been the benehcent
results attained in extending the free dis
trthuttOn of mails to the residents of rural
districts have justified the wisdom of the
outlay. Statistics brought down to the LIST
OF October, 1904, show that on that date
there were -, 1873 rural routes established.
serving approximately 1900. 900 of people
in rural districts remote from post0tfices.
and that there were pending at that time
S.N1e petitions for the establishment of new
rural routes Cnquestionably some part of
the general increase in receipts is due to
the Increased postal facilities which the
rural service has afforded. The revenues
have also been aided greatly by amend.
ments in the classification of mail matter
and the curtailment Of abuses of the see
ond.class mailing privilege.
Consular Service
our consular system needs Improvement
Salaries should be substituted for fees, and
the proper classification. grading and trans.
fer of consular officers SnDuiu 10 nrDVi1ad