The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-12-06


the agricultural imports by So
600, 900, 900, while all other pro-
ducers find themselves at the end
of the same period with a total on
the debtors side amounting TO
$40, 900, coo.
If real estate, domestic animals,
other live stock, implements and
machinery are included, the farm
er's capital has increased since the
census valuation by probably S.
900, 900, the present valuation be
ing probably S2S, 900, 900, 900.
In the last census year, 1000,
95,5o2, 900 meat animals were
slaughtered and exported. Every
time the clock ticks a second dur
ing the ten hours of workday,
the farmer drives nine meat ami
mails to the butcher" Meat con-
tributes one-third or more of the
total assimilated nutrients of the
national dietary, and at average
meat prices and with the meat
consumption of 1900 the national
retail meat bill that year exceed
ed s. 900 DOC, 900. Every increase
OF one-fourth of a cent per pound
in the national average retail
price of meat raises the total year
ly expense to consumers by SAL.
S83, 5000.
No miracle, " says MI. Wilson,
would be required to double or
even treble the production of cot
ton per acre. The corn crop can
be increased by one-half per acre
within one fourth of a century and
yet with out reaching the limit,
and the same may be said of wheat
and many other crops. One fourth
OF the dairy COWS Of the country
do not pay for their feed, and more
than one-half of them pay no profit.
The egg production per hen will
be increased by at least dozen a
year within a generation, while
some poultrymen forctell double
that increase. If the hens of this
year had each laid a dozen eggs
more than they did, the increased
value of this production would
have possibly aggregated $780,
900, 900. The farmer will not fail
the nation if the nation does not
fail the farmer.
Cotton planters are now out of
their former bondage to future
maintenance, and in the Middle
West there has been a conversion
of 900, 900 agricultural debtors,
paying high rates Of interest, into
financially independent farmers,
debt-free and offering their savings
to the banks at as small a rate of
interest as per cent. Formerly
there was an abundance of farm
labor and a scarcity Of farm capt.
tai. Now these conditions are re-
versed; labor is scarce and capital
abundant. .
The Secretary reviews in some
detail the work of the various
channels through which the De-
partment of Agriculture performs
its functions. In the Weather Blu
reau wireless telegraphy has made
possible the adoption of a plan to
comm unicate warnings to vessels
at sea. The number of telephone
S ubscribers receiving daily fore
casts has been increased to more
than I,ooo,ooo Outside of
Washin gton there are Io5 stations
issuing an aggregate of $4,000
weather maps daily, and the num-
Der of monthly Chronological re-
ports printed at 40 different section
centers exceeds 10000. At the
Mount Weather Research Obser-
vatory, in Virginia, a station of
the first order has been maintain
ed, and a number Of improved in
s trument have been installed.
Regarding the Meat Inspection
law, Mr.. Wilson says:
With the greater authority
now vested in the Secretary, and
with a largely increased appropri-
alton, the service will be greatly
in SCOna and will include