Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

, sible. The department has paid a quarter
of a million in effort to exterminate II
already, but while diseased herds keep
cropping out here and there We must
keep up the quarantine
Another matter connected with animals
to which we are giving attention is that OF
dairy products. This country is engaged
in large business of shipping gram
abroad. Denmark for instance, takes most
| of her grain from the United States, and
| sends $35,O0o,COO worth of dairy products
| annually to the British markets in compet-
| ton with US. Here is chance Tor the
| United States, for it doesn't cost as much
| to ship grain to New England as it does
| to Denmark. and our diaries ought to be
able to ener the market successfully. Sun
another thing in regard to our grain eX-
ports. Corn is the second crop of impor-
lance in the United States. and we send 1t
extensively abroad when there is surplus.
1t is used in making starch, etc, but not
on the tables of the common people. 1t mas
not the elements of q good cereal for WORK
ing men; 1t will fat:en, but not produce
muscle. We are endeavOring by cross-fer-
tilizing to make a corn that will furnish a
more balanced ration and compete with
other cereals as a foodstun.
IN this country We have long lacked
good macaroni wheat. Our department has
found at the headwaterS of the Nolga a
wheat which grows in ten inches of rain
fall and is perfect for macaroni. OF this
2 900 900 bushels were grown last year, and
we will soon have all we need. We nave
turned our attention to cotton, too. Not
long ago the Sea island variety was threat
ened with determination through root
disease BY croSS-breeding every kind of
cotton we finally found one that would
grow there. 1t took four years to do 1t,
but now they have a cotton that is immune.
Rice is another example. They grow large
quantities of it along the gulf coast, and
men from New England and men from
Iowa went down there with labor-SaVlnS
machine in connection with II. But they
bat a large nrODOrtiOn of the
rice broke in the machine; it was too soft.
A round, flinty rice was desirable, so we
sent experts to the orient, where they have
been growing all kinds of rice for centuries,
and brought back just what was needed.
One American with his machinery can now
grow in year what 400 Cinnamon could
grow.
There is about our department this: We
open our doors. books and records to every
body from all over the world. European
countries have come for our men, but often
times they explicitly forbid our getting
anything in return. Our experts went to
Bohemia one year for hop roots, and got
a full collection; but when the government
found where they were going the contracts
were cancelled and they came back empty
handed. But only for a year Next season
l sent an agent over with money in his
pockets and orders to stay there until he
got the roots. They came.
In addition to everything else, we have
to train men in plant pathology study
which is not even attempted at agricultural
colleges We do this for the sake of alb
stract science, because the farmers need
help. Our pathological department studied
the important subject of grass and forage
crops and as a result we are now able 10
send about the country in dry form spe-
cial kind of bacteria which takes nitrogen
from the air into the soil. making clover
ana grass 10 grow where they never grew
before We have introduced Kind or al
falfa from Turkestan which is not Killed III