The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-07
PRES. ROOSRVELT'S MESSAGE
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 to the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality. Probably some form of corporal punishment would be the most adequate way of meeting this kind of crime.
 Agriculture.
 The Department of Agriculture has grown into an educational institution with a faculty of two thousand specialists making research into all the sciences of production. The Congress appropriates, directly and indirectly, six millions of dollars annually to carry on this work It reaches every State and Territory in the Union and the islands of the sea lately come under our flag. Cooperation is had with the State experiment stations, and with many other institutions and indiyid- uals. The world is carefully searched for new varieties of grains, fruits, grasses. vegetables, trees, and shrubs, suitable to various localities in our country; and marked benefit to our producers has resulted.
 The activities of our age in lines of research have reached tillers of the soil and inspired them with ambition to know more of the principles that govern the forces of nature with which they have to deal. Nearly half of the people of this country devote their energies to growing things from the soil Until a recent date little has been done to prepare these millions for their life work. Tn most lines of human activity college-trained men are the leaders. The farmer had no oppor- tunity for special training until the Congress made provision for it forty years ago. During these years progress has been made and teachers have been prepared. Over five thousand students are in attendance at our State agri- cultural colleges The Federal Govern ment expends ten millions of dollars annually toward this education and for research in Washington and in several States and Territories. The Depart ment of Agriculture has given facilities for post graduate work to five hundred young men during the last seven years, preparing them for advanced lines of work in the Department and in the State institutions.
 The facts concerning meteorology and it's relations to plant and ani- mai life are being systematically in quired into. Temperature and mois- ture are controlling factors in all agricultural operations. The seasons of the cyclones of the Caribbean sea and their paths are being forecasted with increasing accuracy. The cold winds that come from the north are anti cipated and their times and intensity told to farmers, gardeners and fruiter- CTS in all southern localities.
 We sell two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of animals and animal products to foreign countries every year, in addition to supplying our own people more cheaply and abundantly than any other nation is able to pro- vide for it's people. Successful manu featuring depends primarily on cheap food, which accounts to a considerable extent for our growth in this direction. The Department of Agriculture, by careful inspection of meats, guards the health of our people and gives clean bills of health to deserving exports; it is prepared to deal promptly with inn ported diseases of animals and main tain the excellance of our flocks and herds in this respect There should be an annual census of live stock of the Nation.
 We sell aboard about six hundred million dollars worth of plants and their products every year. Strenuous efforts are being made to import from foreign countries such grains as are Iofa 4o yiY,or Seven years ago we bought three fourths of our rice; by helping the rice growers on the Gulf coast to secure seeds from the Orient suited to their conditions, and by giving them ade- quate protection, they now supply home demand and export to the islands of the Caribbean sea, and to other rice growing countries. Wheat and other grains have been imported from light rainfall countries to our lands in the West and Southwest that have not grown crops because of light precipita- tion resulting in an extensive addition to our cropping area and our home- making territory that can not be irri- gated. Ten million bushels of first class macaroni wheat were grown from these experimental imporations last year. Fruits. suitable to our soils and climates are being imported from all the countries of the Old World-.the fig from Turkey, the almond from Spain, the date from Algeria, the mango from India. We are helping our fruit grow CTS to get their crops into European markets by studying methods of pre- servation through refrigeration, pack ing, and handling, which have been quite successful. We are helping our hop growers by importing varieties 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 with root rot, the bollworrn, and the boil weevil. Our pathologists will find immune varieties that will re- sist the root disease, and the bollworm 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 has done great damage. A scientist of the Department of Agriculture has found the weevil at home in Guate- mala being kept in check by an ant, which has been brought to our cotton fields for observation. It is hoped that IA