The Calumet news., 1911-12-07
THROW PUBLICITY
ON MIDDLE MEN
Secretary Wilson Recommends
This as Means of Reduc-
ing Cost Of Living
PRESENTS HIS ANNUAL REPORT
Gives Results Of His Investigation
Of Cold Storage
While Total Value Of Crops This Year
is Not AS Great as in 1870
There is Plenty.
PRESENTS HIS ANNUAL REPORT

lcSS IMAM MY t'hAo VI ~ w "a" 90 -
rcst?"
That is n question which Secretary
Wilson of tho Department of Agricul-
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
department has just concluded into the
effect OF cold storage on the whole
someness and cost of food. His invest
iBation leads him to recommend pub-
licity 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 a year or two
years, as a rule. the secretary declares
that his Investigation showed that re
ceipts into cold storage are entirely or
very nearly exhausted by the deliver
les out of cold storage within ten
months"
Long Storage is Exception.
Long storage is the exception, the
lsecretary asserts. Warehousemen ex-
lplained To the department that excess
sived long storage was due to law
suits and other circumstances Of an
luncommercial 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
creasing the annual price level for but
ter and eggs.
The secretary says that an eXamin-
alton 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.
Had Surplus In Storage.
He refers to "an apparent mistake
of the storage men in overestimatine
the consumption of eggs by the public
at exorbitant prices last winter with
the result that in the spring the stor-
age men had to sell eggs 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 the ware
Ihousemen ought to be required to send
to Washington each month the amount
OF commodities placed in storage SC
that the public may be able to judg,
Of the future trend Of prices.
A great variety of subjects arc
dealt with by the secretary I'm his re-
port. He says that the day is not fal
ldistant when the United States viii
cease to import potash. Florida. Ken
lucky. Tennessee and Idaho are men
toned as repositories.
Attacks Renting Of Land.
Recommendation is made that al
government agencies that conserv,
health should be grouped together In
one bureau.
The success of the department in tn,
Southern states through object les
sons in the fields. is pronounced tC
have been such as to justify the exten-
sion of the work to all states.
The department announces that the
corn crop is moving northward by
seed selection.
The American systems of renting
land are declared to be faulty and re-
suit i'm soil robbing. 1t is suggested
that domestic animals be kept on
farms. even If the land owner must
furnish them. and that there be a rota =
tion of crops.
After years of experimentation, the
| 1a fff co hn I.erxtt To-
can be grown in southern California
and bulbs in the state of Washington.
Must Conserve the Soil.
The crayfish Is pronounced to be a
serious pest In the south. Carbon BIZ
sulphid is said to be a sure remedy.
The finest dates from the Sahara
desert succeed in the southwestern
states.
Poultry products for the past yea
arc estimated to have been worth
$3.50 100000
The foresters OF the Forestry Bu-
reau are learning by experiments how
to reforest 10000 acres in a year. The
much must be planted annually to
cover all the bare acres i'm n genera
tion.
1--WE are sending explorers to the
ends of the earth for new plants-and
getting them" says Secretary Wilson.
The secretary warns the irrigation
farmers that they must conserve their
soil; that irrigation will bring MAKING
um crops while the land Is new and
full Of plant food. But where the crops
are sold year by year. irrigation OF it.
self will not of itself assure good re-
suits.
The secretary declares that while
the total values of the crops I'm 1911
are not so high as in 1910. there ia
great abundance for all purposes"
"Hypatla" OF Charles Kingsley is TO
be recast In stage form by Louis Ma
poleon Parker author of 'Disraeli,"
and 'Pomander Walk" for an early
production.