Arizona republican., 1911-12-08
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Tells About Con dition of Wheat and Also Quite a Number of Other Important Things.
REPORT ALSO HAS
 PAGE ON PRICES
Also Wants to Know Why Consumer Pays a Dollar for Food When But Fifty Cents of That Amount Is for the Farmer.

WASHINGTON. Dec. "A smalIe:. iacreage of winter wheat was sown in 1 tn, United States this fall than last. !according to the report today of the ldeartment of agriculture. The condi- ! ton of the crop December 1 was fl Iper cent better than year ago but S.S6 less than the ten year average total of 32.213.00O acres. or 4S5. .OOn less than last year was planted The continuance of favorable conditions may make the yield per acre more than last year and make up the deficiency of area planted. The acreage planted to rye. is nine tenths of one per cent greater than last year. It's condition
 December 1. is 95.3 per cent. which is average.
 The consumer pays dollar for flood; the farmer gets less than fifty tents of it. Who gets the rpst?"
 That is question which Secretary W ilson of the department of agricu'- ture asked today in his annual report The secretary does not attempt to an swer il. He does explain in some de tail the results of an investigation his l department has just concluded into ! the effect of cold storage on the 1 wholesomeness and cost of food His | investigation leads him to recommend | publicity for the amount of food in ! cold storage, just as the department | now gives publicity to the condition If | crops from month to month
 IuctaaH .,f f,nI ,.,,.iripuy ;,, ..,,,.,r,. [ for longer than a year or two years, i az rule. the secretary declares that his investigation showed that re ceipts into cold storage are entirely or very nearly exhausted by the deliver ies out of cold storage within ten 
 Long storage is the exception. the secretary asserts warehousemen ex- plaired to the department that eX ceSsively long storage was due to lawsuits and other circumstances of an uncommercial nature. The cost of storage. including storage charge. in terest and insurance. iS considered as a barrier to very long storage
 Cold storage. the secretary reports has raised the cost of living by in-
  butter and eggs.
 The secretary says that an eXamin- ation of the record of prices gives a
 suspicion that there has been much speculation in some years by the men who keep commodities in cold stor age.
 He refers to "an apparent mistake" ,f the storage men in overestimating The consumption of eggs by the public l. eXorbitant prices last winter with he result that in the spring the stor- lge men had to sell eggs at remark ihly low prices and send abroad the argeSt amount of eggs ever reported in order to get rid of the supply. The secretary declares that the warehouse men ought to he required to send to each month the amount ,f commodities placed in storage SD hat the public may be able to judge ,f the future trend of prices
 A great variety of subjects are dealt with by the secretary in the report. He says that the day is not far dis ant when the United States will cease D import potash. Florida. Kentucky l Tennessee and Idaho are mentioned as . repositories.
 Recommendation is made that all , C Cvernment agencies that conserve , public health should be grouped to- cether in one bureau.
 The success of the department in he southern states. through object essons in the fields. is pronounced to 4 Iave beer such as to justify the eX ension of the work to all states
 The department announces that the orn crop is moving northward by s eed selection.
 The American systems of renting f ult in soil robbing It is suggested , hat domestic animals be kept on arms. even if the land owner must e urnish them. and that there be a otation of crops T
 After years of experimentation. the \ apartment says that Egyptian cotton il an be grown in southern California ', nd bulbs in the state of Washington.
 The crayfish is pronounced to be a erous pest in the South. Carbon isulphd iS said to be a sure remedy c
 The finest dates from the sahara esert succeed in the southwestern tateS
 Poultry products for the past year N re estimated to have been worth ii 15O. .O00.0O0 r.. The foresters of the forestry bureau p re learning by experiment how to re r;
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