New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
Uncle Sam Has to Yield His Scientists Aid of Business

, business firm. He is an expert In dairy
matters, and his work In promoting CO.
operating creameries in the following re-
gions has been of great value to the entre
dairying industry Of the country
Tobacco specialists are particularly hard
to hold in the government service when
their training and research become such
as to attract attention. Their services are
I'm constant demand among the growers
OF tobacco. who have more than their share
OF troubles. Many of these men go out
on a salary and percentage basis. one
tobacco expert, VINO had made thorough
study Of Connecticut tobacco growing con-
ditions left $1,000 salary in the Agricult-
ural Department, and in one year made
$4,000 in salary and commissions in the
Connecticut field.
Sugar experts likewise find lucrative en-
ployment outside DR.. c. o. Townsend,
Michigan man, after having done valuable
work for the government in beet sugar
studies, left the department not long ago
to become consulting agriculturist for a
large beet sugar company in Kansas. His
work is not TO raise beets, but TO steer
It's beet growing, look after the diseases
that may threaten the crop. devise more
satisfactory methods of culture, and act
as general scientific adviser.
c. A. Brown is another sugar man trained
urder Dr. Wiley I'm the Bureau OF Chem
istry now holding an important post in
commercial work in New York. lie was
selected by the sugar companies TO take
charge of a general testing laboratory, at
which the samples from all sugar import
ers are analysed and adjustments made as
to price. His laboratory has become a
bureau Of standards" for the sugar i'm
porting trade OF the United States.
One government expert in sugar diseases
receiving 500 from the United States has
recently taken charge Of commercial
sugar station In Porto Rico at 5000 James
B. Rorer, son of the domestic science ex-
pert. recently left $500 scientific place
at Washington to take charge OF and de-
velop the work OF studying crop diseases
for the government of Trinidad Walter
Fischer, connected with the work OF seed
and plant introduction for the United
States, has taken charge Of similar work
| In Para, Brazil, at trebled salary.
The rapid development Of fruit lands In
mand for experts In fruit diseases and In
scientific management Of fruit lands and
| their product. The government sent =. j.
O'Gara. a Nebraska man. into the Rogue
| River Valley. in oregon. couple OF years
| ago. to study the pear blight which threat
| ened the orchards there. His work was of
| such Importance to the fruit interests OF
Oregon that when federal duties threat
| ened to call him elsewhere the fruit raisers
| combined and took him away from the
government at salary Of 5000 year,
IIe had been getting $500 from the Agri-
| cultural Department.
Another fruit expert went to California
| year ago to become packing house man
| ager for group OF about five hundred
raisers In n certain section. They gave
him unlimited control Of the fruit from the
tree 10 the market. and In one year he In
creased their profits $4,000.
| Florida land companies decided that u
| would cost too much to carry on mai
vidually the great drainage work necessary
TO clear and make tlllable some OF theiI
most valuable lands. So they combined