The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-07

have been prepared. over five thous-
and students are in attendance at our
State agricultural colleges The Fed
eral Government eXpends ten millions
of dollars annually toward this educa-
/ ton and for research in washington
and in the several States and territor-
/ les The Department of Agriculture
] has given facilities for postgraduate
work TO five hundred young men dur
/ ing the last seven years, preparing
them for advanced lines of work in
! 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
controlling factors in all agricultural
| operations. The seasons of the cN-
clones of the Caribbean Sea and their
paths are being forcasted with increas-
! ing accuracy. The cold winds that
come from the North are anticipated
and their times and intensity told 10
! farmers. gardeners, and fruiterers in
all Southen localities.
| We sell two hundred and fifty mil
! lion dollars worth OF animals and ami
| NAL products TO foreign countries
! every year, in addition 10 supplying
! our own people more cheaply and
abundantly than any other nation is
| able to provide for its people. Sue
| cessful manufacturing depends pri-
| marily on cheap food, which accounts
! to a considerable extent for our
! growth in this direction The Depart
ment of Agriculture. by careful in
| spection of meats. guards the health of
Jour peonle and Gives clean bills of
| health to deserving exports; it is pre-
pared to deal promptly with imported
4 diseases of animals and maintain the
f., excellence of our fiockS and herds in
!, ic u,
| iual census of the live stock of the
/ alton.
| We sell abroad about six hundred
I million dollars worth of plants and
| heir products every year. Strenuous
| forts are being made to import from
| oreign countries such grains as are
| uitable to our varying localities Sew
| n years ago we bought three-fourths
| # our rice; by helping the rice grow
| RS on the Gulf coast to secure seeds
| rom the Orient suited to their con-
| litions, and by giving them adequate
| protection they now supply home de-
| nand and export to the islands of the
1 Caribbean Sea and to other rice-groW-
| ng countries. Wheat and other grains
| nave been imported from light-rainfall
I Countries to our lands in the West and
| southwest that have not grown crops
| because of light precipitation, result
! ng in an extensive addition to orr
/ cropping area and our home making
| territory that cannot be irrigated. Ten
million bushels of first-class macaronI
| wheat were grown from these expert
mental importations last year Fruits
suitable to our soils and climates are
| being imported from all the countries
| Of the Old World-the fig from Tur-
key, the almond from Spain. the date
| from Algeria, the mango from India.
| We are helping our fruit growers to
get their crops into European mar
| kets by studying methods of peserva-
ton through refrigeration, packing.
and handling. which have been quite
| successful. We are helping our hop
growers by importing v.--eties that
ripen earlier and later than the kinds
they have been raising, thereby leng-
thening the harvesting season. The
cotton crop of the country is threat
ened with root rot, the boil worm, and
| the boil weevil. Our PSYCHOLOGISTS will
| find immune varieties that will resist
| the root disease and the boil worm
| can be dealt With but the boil weevil
| is a serious menace to the cotton crop
It is a Central American insect that
| has become acclimated in Texas and