El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22


100000, and the cotton brought in about
500 or 900 millions The corn crop can
be doubled and the cotton materially in
80 are improving both crops
and Uncle Sam has cotton breeding plan
tations, where he is crossing the cottons
| to make a staple which will be longer
and bring more money. He is doing the
same with other crops, including our
fruits. This material will include stor
les of apple lands worth $1,000 an acre,
| of orange groves improved by the gov
eminent, which are equally valuable, and
of how dates, oranges and figs are being
grown on the new irrigated grounds Of
the southwest. On some of the Arizona
farms they raise five crops of cabbages
year.
More Money from Livestock.
But few people know that the govern
ment has gone into the stock raising
business Uncle Sam has recently estab-
lished breeding farms in different parts
of the union. He is raising Morgan
horses and fine cattle, including Jerseys,
Shorthorns and others. Our farm ami
mails are now bringing us in about two
billion dollars a year, and the government
believes that this amount by careful
breeding can be increased 300 million
dollars or more. This should bring down
the price of meats, and it is interesting
to every householder.
In the same connection is the breeding
of game. The government IS introducing
partridges and pheasants. 1t proposes
to open a buffalo farm, and it has herds
of reindeer in Alaska. A curious feature
is the probable introduction Oh the hip
popotami for the swamps of the south.
| am told also that one man has
made fortune IN skunks which he rears
for their skins.
We have thousands of men and women
nursing chickens. Uncle Sam has new
methods of fowl raising, and quite.
number of people are making a living by
breeding guineas for game. Our poultry
crop is worth as much as the cotton crop,
the hay crop or the wheat crop.
Uncle Sam. Doctor.
Another interesting work CT Uncle Sam
is the care he is now exercising over the
health of his children. The government
has scores of scientists investigating dis
eases of animals and men. We are WHIP
ing out the mosquitoes and slaughter
ing the flies that bring typhoid fever.
We take the temperatures of the COWS
to learn whether they have consumption,
and we tell Just how their milk should
be treated. Uncle Sam is also inspecting
the drugs and meats. He protects you
from bad liquor and tells just how much
alcohol there is in every bottle Of wine
and beer.
He is also testing foods ard food val
ues and lays down rules by which you
may grow lean or fat. He has cooking
schools which are studying how to pre-
pare meats and vegeta bles. and tells you
lust what to eat to become the best man
physically and mentally.
Our National Assets.
The government is now figuring up
how much we are worth. For the past
several years it has had an army OF
Investigators estimating our crops, an
finals and foods, and these figures are
now about ready for use. They show
that we have 900. GEO factories with a
capital Of Is billion dollars They
give the wages of every state OF the /
union as well as a full count Of Uncle
S-r,'~ children This has heer done
by the census, the work Of which in
cludes new facts of great human in
terest.
Uncle Same, Detective.
One of the interesting phases Of
Uncle Sans work is the pursuit of
crime and his efforts TO protect his
children from frauds This has been
inaugurated within the past few years.
and It now forms a great network
which gathers in the robbers. from
the counterfeiters to the trust mag
mates. There are hundreds of these
corporation detectives who are looking
into the books Of the trusts and the
railroads. There are detectives who
are examining false weights and meas
ures custom house spies who are aft
er the smugglers; internal revenue
spies who are hunting the moonshiners
and treasury detectives who are chas- /
ing the counterfeiters. This sphere
Of crime is very extensive, and the !
of io1 spo hoir of
prevention. Some Of the most interest
ing revelations of the present are |
those which relate to frauds through I
the mails and to the destruction of /
fake mining schemes, land schemes and |
plantation schemes of one kind or an /
other.
Government Schemes for the Sailor !
The government is also doing a great |
deal for the sailors. It has a life !
saving service with 459 stations 1t !
guards our coasts by 1900 lighthouses
and it has 46 lightships and 1000 /
buoys. This service saved about 16 j
billion dollars worth Of property last !
year, including vessels worth $4,000 !
600. 1t saved also 5000 lives.
I want to tell how the coasts and
harbors are being surveyed and de-
scribe our enormous shipping interests,
including a carrying trade amounting
10 TWO or three Dill1onS per annum-
Uncle Sam, Exporter.
What our patriarchial relative is do
ing to sell our crops and manufactures
abroad is worth noting. In the past
two or three years he has organized a
new system for the development Of our
foreign commerce and he now has his
national trade drummers and govern
ment agents in almost every country.
lie has inspectors who go from land
% land studying the pushing of special
crops, and he is also working the army
of American consuls. Our foreign COM
merce now amounts to about $1,000
100000 a year and our exports alone
are over 10000 millions. This business
is just at it's beginning, and neverthe-
less it is the greatest commerce of any
alton.
Our Big Lumber Trade.
1t is a live question as to what
Uncle Sam will do with the forests of
the union. and whether they should
not be given over to the people. He
has still about 500. 900, 900, 900 board
feet of standing timber and in many
of the national forests he is cutting
the trees and saving them into lum-
Der. The forestry bureau claims that