The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-09-05

among our herds and fiocks Rigid in
spection against foreign countries hav-
ing animal diseases is maintained at
our ports of entry, in order to protect
the health of our domestic animals.
Within the last eleven years the gov
eminent has become thoroughly
equipped to deal with plant diseases.
The loss of half million dollars an
nually was stopped by pathological ex-
animation of our sea-island cottons.
! New varieties of fruits, cereals, cottons,
etc, are being created by hybridizing to
meet the demands of producers of these
crops in the North and in the South
Our forests have been mostly de
stroyed and our mountains, the natural
reservoirs for water, have been rem
dered incapable of retaining moisture.
Efforts are being made to reforest the
country, to prevent fires, to regulate
grazing in our forests and to study
numbering and forest products
The Federal Government is making
inquiry into road material and a begin
ming has been made in the education of
young men toward road building A
laboratory has been established in the
Department of Agriculture for the
study of materials with which to coil
struct roads; and rocks, gravels, clays,
thing, cement, concrete payements
stone, brick, wood, and asphaltum are
being studied
The Central American boil weevil,
now the greatest menace to the cotton
crop of the United States. is being
actively studied as it increases its
range, and means of control have been
devised which make the growth of cot
ton nearly as profitable as ever. The
insect enemies of other great staple
crops are being investigated throughout
the country, and the gypsy and brown
tail moths. which are threatening the
forest areas Of New England, are be-
ing checked and brought into measur-
able control by the agency of the Fed
eral Government in cooperation with
state authorities. The losses occasioned
by insect pests in general amount to
millions annually, and much of this
loss may gradually be prevented by the
kind of work done by the Department
of Agriculture.
The atmosphere in its relation TO ag-
riculture and commerce is being care
fully studied, and trained meteorolo-
gists for the first time in our history
are being detailed from the Department
of Agriculture to give lectures in .nsti-
tutions of learning, in order thst we
may have scholars in the land along
this line of inquiry, to the end that the
farmer and the mariner may have all
the protection that intelli5 cent forecast
ing can give them.
The Meat Inspection ard t'ure Food
Laws.
On June 30, 1906, by the approval of
President Roosevelt, the Meat Inspec-
ton Amendment became Jaw. Under
the provisions of this aEi endment the
Federal Government guay tntees to the
people of the United % ties that the
meat shipped in inters at commerce is
derived from animals W Itch are free
from disease at the time of slaughter.
and that meat products ftom these ami
mails are prepared n clean packing
houses, under sanitary conditions, and
without the addition OF any Injurious
or deleterious drugs che meals, or pre-
servatives. The III ted States now has
the most stringent andi the best en-
forced meat inspeC ion law of any coun-
try in the world, and is a great pro