Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

our rep
Commercial resentatives gives as
-. surance that the
service of the Department of Com
MERGE is amply fulfilling its mission.
Officials of the department are Of
the opinion that the results attained
during the three years since the COM
mercial attache service was established
call for its extension. At present GER
tain large and important markets for
American products are scanttly covered.
Some sections are not covered at all.
During last year and this year urgent
requests for the establishment of new
commercial attache posts have been
received from our ambassadors to Italy,
Japan, Spain and Mexico, and from the
consul general at Calcutta, India, the
request from Japan having already
been acceded to. In addition the Of
ficials of the Department of Commerce
who are most closely in touch with
this matter believe that we should
have these representatives in Central
America South Africa. the East In
dies. Venezuela, Colombia and the
permit. in Scandinavia and the eastern
Mediterranean. Otherwise our touch
with the economic conditions now in
process Of worldwide readjustment
will be inadequate for our national
needs.
American business men who have
come in contact with the commercial
attaches in the course Of their travels
express their high valuation of the as
sistance given by the attaches. Manu-
facturers and exporters have been
unanimous in expressing their graft
tude OF the benefit derived by the re-
ports and the other advices through
this service. The work done by the
commercial attache is distinctive: it
does not involve duplication of work
performed abroad by the consular serv-
Ice or by our own travelling agents.
1t is interesting in this connection to
note that New South Wales spends
about 100000 year in maintaining its
trade commissioner in the United
States. He is paid a salary one-half
more than the United States pays to
it's commercial attaches abroad. He is
supplied with two clerks messen-
ger and an inspector. and has. in addi-
ton. a deputy commissioner. with a
messenger located in New York.
yet undertaken through the attache
service relates to the establishment Of
American banks abroad and the invest
ment OF American capital. Our banks
eiSn field, and the department officials
nave given them assistance, in so far
as possible. in expansion for the benefit
OF american commerce. Linked with
the subject OF banking appears that Of
investment by American capital in for
eign properties. such as railroads.
mines. public utilities, etc. In order to
furnish American investors with the
necessary preliminary data concerning
fields needing development, the at
taches make a continuing study Of
their particular districts
1t has been possible recently to bring
several of the attaches back to the
United States. Such a trip, the officials
say, serve two purposes First, 1t en-
ables American manufacturers and ex-
porters to receive first hand the benefit
OF the attaches experience and obser-
vatfons: and, second. it enables the at
tache to acquire a fresh view of COM
mercial conditions in this country,
and to ascertain how he can best serve
the needs Of American business men.
The care of growing chicks during
the summer is one of the most impor-
tant factors in poultry rails
Growing ing. according to the ex-
nl:h perts of the Department Of
ono' Agriculture. who are trying
to give valuable suggestions to the peo-
pie Of this country who are now. more
than ever before. trying their hand.
thousands for the first time. at poultry
raising. They say that the chicks may
be Matched from strong. vigorous stock
and carefully brooded. but unless they
receive the proper attention during the
warm months their growth will be re-
tarded. In other WORDS. they should
be So managed that they will mature
into well developed fowls.
Growing chicks should be provided
with house that will give them a
place to stay in bad weather and at
night. No particular style of house is
that it will provide the chicks with
ample ventilation, dryness. sunlight
freedom from drafts and be so ar
ranged that it can be cleaned easily
and frequently.
In making suggestions the experts
say that the lumber from piano and
dry goods boxes can be used in build
ing such a house, and when covered
with ordinary roofing paper so as to
keep out the rain. will make desirable
quarters. 1t is further suggested that
such houses he built on the colony
plan. so that they can be moved from
place to place. thus providing the
over. Elevating such house six
inches from the ground will assist in
keeping the floor dry. by means Of
the circulation of air and such space
will also provide shade for the chicks.
In placing the chicks in their grow
ing house for the first time it is best
to conf1ne them for several days by
erecting q temporary yard wherein
they can run for five or six days. until
thew learn where to return when the
fence Is removed. and they are allowed
their liberty Care should be taken not
to crowd the chicks by placing too
many in any ona house. When the
chickens cover the greater part of the
floor at night it is an indication that
they are too crowded.
The problem of Quitting the Army
of the United States has not been an
easy one, in fact.
Up the it has been a very
Army Supplies. ton. The office
of the quartermaster general has just
recently been reorganized with view
to speeding up" the whole depart
ment.
4 Before the United States entered the
war against Germany a well defined
and adequate supply system had been
created for the small Regular Army OF
the United States. 1t was large enough
and flexible enough to permit the war
Department to make gradual accumu-
lations OF reserve as Congress from
time to time provided the necessary
money: but when the mobilization OF
the National Guard on the Mexican