The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-07

publicity for the amount of food in
cold storage. just as the department
now gives publicity to the condition of
crops from month to month.
instead of food remaining In stor-
age for longer than u year or two
years, as rule the secretary de-
cihrcs that his investigation showed
that receipts into cold storage are
entirely or very nearly exhausted by
the deliveries out of cold storage
within ten months"
Long storage Is the exception. the
secretary asserts. WarehousemcD eS-
planned to the department that excess
sively long storage was due to law
suits and other circumstances of an
uncommerc!al nature. The cost of
storage. including storage charge. in
terest and insurance is considered a
carrier 10 very long storage
Raises Cost of Living.
Cold storage. the secretary reports
has raised the cost of living by in
creacng the annual price level for
butter and eggs.
The secretary says that an eSamina-
ton OF the record OF prices gives
suspicion" that there has been much
speculation in some years by the men
Who keep commodities in cold stor-
age.
He refers to IAN apparent mistake"
of the storage men in overestimating
the consumption of eggs by the public
at eNorbitant prices last winter with
the result that in the spring the stor-
age men had TO sell cggs at remark
ably low prices and send abroad the
largest amount of eggs ever exported
in order to get rid of the supply The
secretary declares that he warehouse
men ought to be required to send to
Washington each month the amount OF
commodities placed in storage. so that
the public may be able to judge OF
the future trend of prices.
y great variety of subjects are dealt
with by the secretary In his report He
says that the day Is not far distant
when the United States Will cease to
import potash. Florida. Kentucky,
Tennessee and Idaho are toned as
repositories.
Recommendation is made that all
government agencies that conserve
health should be grouped together In
one bureau.
The success OF the department in
the Southern States through object les
sons in the fields, is pronounced TO
have been such as to Justify the ex-
tension of the work to all States.
The department. announced that the
corn crop is moving northward by
The American systems OF renting
land are declared to be faulty and re-
suit in soil robbing. 1t is suggested
that domestic animals be kept on
farms. even II the land owner must
furnish them. and that there be 70 :
tation of crops.
After years of experimentation the
department says that Egyptian cotton
can be grown in Southern California,
and bulbs III the State OF Washing
ton
The craytish is pronounced to be a
serious pest in the South. Carbon BIZ
sulphld is said TO be a sure remedy
The finest dates from the Sahara De-
sert succeed in the Southwestern
States
Poultry products for the past year
are estimated to have been worth
$3.50, 00u. 900.
The foresters of the Forestry Bur
eau are learning by experiments how
10 reforest 10000 acres in a year. The
secretary says that ten times this
much must be planted annually to COW
er all the bare acres in n generation.
I'VE are sending explorers to the
ends of the cartn for new plants land
getting Them says Secretary Wilson.
The secretary warns the irrigation
farmers that they must conserve their
soil: that Irrigation will bring maxi
mum crops, while the land is new and
full OF plant food. But where the
! crops are sold year by year, irrlga-
: tion of Itself VIII not of Itself assure
| good results.