Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-09

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Demonstration work designed to aid
in the establishment Of general live
stock industries In territory freed
from cattle ticks must be abandoned
lin the state of North. Carolina, Georg-
ia, Florida. Alabama. Mississippi.
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Dairy specialists must be dispensed
line, Mississippi, Arkansas and Okla
homa. =
The insurance fund Of $1,000 900 to
eradicate foot-and-mouth disease. II. it
should appear in this country, is
practically wiped out.
To Close Stations.
Many field stations engaged in cere.
al Improvement work Will have to. be
closed. This includes all the stations
in North Carolina and TENNESSEE and
those at Amarillo. Tex; Archer. Wyo.;
Highmore, 8. OAK; Bookings, s.
OAK; Nephi, Utah: Burns. Ore; and
Lind, Wash. Stations 1T Wfliston, N.
Oak. and Newell, S. Oak, already
have been discontinued because in
creased costs could not be met with
the money available
Work toward preventing cereal dis
eases must be discontinued al the sta
tons at Ithaca, N. Y; Lansing, Mich;
Auburn, Ala; Tucson, Ariz.. and Cor
Wallis. Ore, and must be greatly re-
duced at h stations at Berkeley, Ca;
Milford, Conn.,; Bloomington, ILL.,;
Lafayette, Ind; Ames, Ia: Manhat-
tan. Kans.; Crowley. La; St. Paul,
Mimi; New Brunswick. Nj; Fargo,
n. Oak; Hershey, Pa; Knoxville,
Tenn; Arlington, Va; Pullman,
Wash. and Madison, Wis.
Stations at which problems in irri-
CATION agriculture are studied will
have to be abandoned at San Antonio,
Tex; Umatilla, Orc, and Newlands,
New.
The staff engaged in the enforce
ment Of the food and drugs act must
be~reduced.
t. The investigational work ut three
out of the four forest experiment sta
! lions on the western forests must be
discontinued.
Only one or two men can be retain
ed O field Investigations in forestry
in he whole eastern portion of the
country.
Muck work having to do with main
tanning and reproducing the forests in
the east and south, where the problem
Of future timber supplies is most
AGATE will have to be abandoned.
Nostfing whatever car he done along
that line n the lake states or the
northeast:
Urgent problems connected with
the rapidly waning supply OF hard
woods II the central states and the
Appalackians can NOT be given proper
attention.
Studies of the growth, yield, and
future use OF the vast areas of yellow
pine lands in the south will have to
be abandoned.
Very little progress can be made in
the general survey Of national forest
resources.
Work on insects injurious to the
health of man, such az yellow fever
n malaria mosquitoes and the house
fly, must be reduced.
Other Work Limited.
Other lines Of activity which will
investigations of the culture and i'm :
provement of forage crops. the soil
survey work. studies Of livestock pro-
duction in sugar cane and cotton dis
tricts. work in the control of. the po-
tAto-Wart disease, field experiments in
the construction and maintenance OF
roads and Of road materials and prep
arations, farm irrigation investiga-
|tions, and studies in farm drainage.
A cut Of $4,000 in the fund for i'm
provements on the national forests will
necessarily hamper work. necessary
for the proper and ec3ronnical admin
istration, protection and development
Of the national forests. 4 81
All these reductions are much NOR
serious than appearssfrom q mere dol
lars-and-cents statement. A dollar
buys much. less Of everything than ii
formerly bought Inc also does consid-
propriations had been retained at the
old figures. therefore, the department
would have been seriously handicap.
ped in carrying on its work effectively