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OLD WORLI Government Impc Much to Our GUY ELLIOT1 At the recent meeting or the National Board of Trade in Washington the re port adopted from the committee on agricultural statistics presents many facts of great interest to the farmers throughout the country and 0ose de pendent upon them for their prosperity, showing the large scope of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the enormous actual benefit which its investigations have been to all of our producing areas. After discussing the question of the Department's methods of gathering statistical information regarding grow ing crops, the National Board of Trade recommending a modification of the present methods, including the cutting down of the great army of farmers and others who are called upon by the De partment for reports on conditions of their crops, and the reorganization of the Bureau of Statistics upon a basis of fewer but more reliable reporters, carrying greater individual responsibil ities, and also in the cutting down of the free seed appropriations and the substitution of a practice of distribut ing only those seeds and plants which will be a probable benefit to the various sections of the country as a nucleus about which to build up a substitution of more valuable crops than those now grown by the firmre's. In response to a request, the committee received a statement from Secretary Wilson bear L., X CAMEL LOADED This is the Clover of Egypt and is Believe Dryer C ing upon the work of the Department in the collectiou and distribution of ex perimental seeds and plants which contains much of interest. The Secre tary says to the committee: "I am pleased to give you a state ment showing in a general way the im portance of the work of seed and plant introduction to this Department and to the agriculture of the United States. 7The appropriation for 1906 is $290,000, which will be practically all used In this work." *Ini Touch With the Farmers. Through the medium of the distribu lion of seeds and plants, the Secretary continues, the Department workers put Into practice the discoveries which they may have made in the laboratories and eIn their field work. He mentions the distribution of disease resistant cotton seed to such portions of the south as are affected with the cotton wilt dis ease: The annual loss to the south from this disease will easily reach $500,000, and the Department has done much to reduce or prevent this loss at a cost of not more than $1,000 for the seed and experimental work. The in troduction of some of the hardy oranges developed by the workers In the Bureau. of Plant Industry is another similar illustration. By a series of cross-breeding experiments between the ordinary sweet orange and the hardy Japanese citus trifoiata, a very valu able and semi-hardy orange has been produced, which will probably grow -~ almost as far north as Washington. It is expected that with several more gen erations of improvement, an orange practically equal to the ordinary type of Florida or California orange will be able to withstand comparatively severe freezing weather. Through the co operation of the Laboratory of Drug Plant Investigation with the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction and Dis tribution, we are endeavoring to in troduce into the United States the cul ture of a number of different drug plants the annual importation of which at the present time runs into millions of, dollars in value. It is this prin ciple of co-operation which renders the work of particular value to the Depart ment itself and of course enables the Department to do better work for the country at large. Great Value from Small Expenditures "In regard to the value of this work to the United States, in my opinion," the Secretary says, -"there can be no doubt that the distribution of seeds from the time the work was first be hum, introduced in the early sixties at a~nce in the development of our agricul ture. The rather hasty survey of the old records that the time at our dis posal has permitted, shows that the De-' partment has been helpful in the in troduction of many of the crops that -__are at present consideredI the most val uable in tbyaJinited States. Among thesemaTe mentioned the Fultz and other varieties of wheat; Chinese sor gum, Introduced In the early sixties at a cost of about $2,000 and now worth easily many millions of dollars an nually to the country; Kaffir corn, the introducticn of which cost the Depart ment not more than $5,000, of which the annual value at present is estirnat ed to be about $20,000,000; macaront wheat, on which, during the past three years, we have expended about $10,000, and which has enabled the farmers of the arid west to grow crops worth from $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 on lands -on which they could not grow the or dinary varieties of wheat; Japanese rice, whic~h has been a large factor in the phenomenal growth of the rice in dustry In Texas and Louisiana. The macreage devoted to this has increased ) PLANTS. rtations Promise Agriculture. 'MITCHELL. from 210,396 acres in 1898, to a total of 610,700 acres in 1904, raising the value of the land from between $1.00 and $1.50 per acre to from $35.00 to $50.00 per acre, and the output has been increased from 179,919,293 pounds of rough rice in 1898 to 869,436,800 pounds in 1904. In the matter of fruits, it will be remembered that the Department introduced the Bahia orange, known as the Washington navel orange, which has become the standard orange throughout California. More recently, the Department has expended in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars in the introduction of the date p- m into Arizona and California and al though sufficient time has not yet elapsed to enable us to state positively what the outcome will be, there ap pears no reason to doubt that an en tirely new industry will be built up In these sections as a result of the ef forts of the Department. The present -value of date importations is, roughly speaking, half a million dollars. This consists largely of the cheaper grades of dates, the finer varieties from the Sahara seldom coming to this country except in very small quantities. These can undoubtedly be grown in our south west. American Sugar Beet Seed. "The introduction of the sugar beet, while not due primarily to the efforts of the Department, has anquestion ably been greatly assisted by the dis WITH BERSEEM. d to Be of Great Value to Certain of Our limates. tribution of seed by the Department, and the establishment of the sugar beet seed industry, in the Uni:ed States, which, from the present Indications, will be a question of only a few years, will have been due directly to the work of the Departmient. Seeing the im portance of developing our own sugar beet and seed industry, plans were formulated three years ago to encour age the growing of this seed. TheI amount expended on this work, up to date) including salaries and the an nual cost of American grown seed for distribution, will not exceed $15,000, while the value of the sugar beet seed used in the United States is at least half a million dollars annually, be sides the much greater value to the sugar beet raisers of having seed adapted to American conditions. A conservative calculation shows that the value to American sugar beet growers of using higher grade seed than is usually sent here by German seedsmen will easily aggregate $1,000,000 an nually. Our work along this line has progressed so far that we shall dis ARION PRPAAT GrwnFrm ucer inrdue Being ONeae fROrShip tribute during this year 15,000 pounds of American sugar beet seed and the growers will probably produce in the neighborhood of 300,000 pounds next year, all of which has been contracted for at the present time." Most of the Money Wasted. Although the amount of money which the Secretary may use, out of the an nual appropriation for the d stribution of seeds, for the discovery, collection and distribution of new seeds and plants is quite limited, and but a pit tance of the amount authorized by Congress for the distribution of com mon cabbage, radish, tomato and other garden and flower seeds. the Depart ment neverthele Is doing some re markable work in searching, througi its special agricultural explorers, thi countries of the old world where ag riculture has been carried on for cen turies and tens of centuries a-nd when its history of crops fades away int< dim tradition. and from these coun tries some of the most useful and at tractive plants have been introduced which promise great things for Amer ican agriculture. It is a questiox among far-sighted plant breeders an JAPANESE BAMBOO TREE The Bamboo is the Staple Wood of Japan an . Its Uses Spell Legion. growers whether this part of the wor of the Department of Agriculture doe not hold out the greatest possibility t( the future of America of any branch o the government. Every now and thei a new plant or new variety is discover ed and introduced which may revo lutionize that particular brantir o: crop production. The macaroni whea which the Secretary mentions is a faii example. Extensive trials of thi, wheat have been made throughout th middle belt of the United States. jus west of the producing area for ordinar3 wheat, and it is believed that a vas section of possibly a million squar miles heretofore thought unfit for an3 agriculture. is capable of producint this new grain at the rate of from 1 to 20 bushels per acre. With such 4 startling showing as this lue entirel to the experimental work of the De partment-who shall say when the fooc producing limit of the world may bi reached? Bringing Asia to Our Doors. For every section o. the vastly di versified soil and climate of the Unite( States, says Secretary Wilson, there i! a corresponding spot in some portiol of the old world where agriculture ha! been successfully prosecuted for cen turies. What we need is full and com plete information regarding the olt world agriculture and the intelligen application of that knowledge to ou own country. It would be possible to extend hi letter almost indefinitely, the Secretar: continues, were we to go into the var ious agricultural possibilities which ar now being worked up by the Office o Seed and Plant Introduction and Dis tribution. We are now at work upot the introduction of the Japanese mat ting rush into the United States. Thern are imported annually into the Unite< States something like nye million dol lars worth of matting. The owners o: a newly Invented loom guarantee tha1 the value of the annual consumptiot of raw material to supply their fac tories will not be less than $2,000,000 We are working to establish the cul. ture of this matting rush in the aban doned rice fields of the Carolinas and the work has already progressed far enough to justify a reasonable assur nce of success. We are also working to introduce a disease resistant strair >f Bermuda or Easter lily and with fait prospects of success. We are encour .~. ENG DATE GARDENS. the Department of Agriculture. DATE TREES. ent to the United States. agng the growing of Holland bulbs ii the Puget Sound region and believi it will be only a question of time whex this industry 'will be established. Thi introduction of the mango into Florida the introduction of new persimmon and other Chinese and Japanese fruit: which are now being secured by ou explorer in northern China, and thi introduction of hardier or more r lific strains of alfalfa all promise. the aggregate many millions of dollar of Increase in the value of plant prod ucts. Touching on the question of the an nual Congressional seed distribution Secretary Wilson says that while theri s ndnoubedyoe benefit attached tF the distribution of vegetable seed eac year the real value to the country 0 such distribution cannot be compare with that of even one good introductio: like macaroni wheat, Japanese rice, a: improved variety of cotton or variou other articles which might be met tioned. WHY FENCE TIRE RCSTS. Department of Agriculture say f armers Uise (heap Material. A bulletin setting forth the results 0 an investigation made by the Deparl raent of Agriculture into the corrosio of iron and steel wire fencing was sued recently to the farmers of th country. Many complaints have bee made to the department in the las year regarding the present quality o iron an steel wire used - 'encing, an to improve thes' conditions, wit. th hope f determining some remedy fo the corrosion, Secretary Wilson crdez ed a thorough investigation.au th perts ame to the conclusion that th chief trouble is that the average 'arm e insists on using the cheapest vir for fencing, and the cheap wire natural ly corrodes. The department claims that somi manufacturers hold that if it were pos sible to make a better graae or wire a even a slightly higher price, it woult be useless to put it on the market, a the American farmer would not buy it because he desires cheapness abovi other consideration. The result of preliminary experl ments made by the Agricultural DE partinent pointed to the manganese ii the wire as undoubtedly being he chie cause of the corrosion, and it is state that the more manganese there is pres ent in fence wire the quicker it wil rust or deteriorate. To show the possible causes for th I MITSUNIATA 2AIN COAT. Woven From a Japanese Plant Which the D artment is Introducing in the South. corrosion and that manganese Is at tb bottom of all the trouble, the depar ment quotes a number of steel, iro and metalurgical authorities on tb subject. SOUTHE RX FA RMS. -Rapid Increase in Values Makes thi Whole South Prosperous. Maufacturers' Record. While it is true that the industris development of ,the South is going foi ward ~with amazing rapidity, it is nevel theless true that, by virtue of the em tent of the agricultural interests i. the South, agriculture is yet the four dation of the business of that section A change from poverty to prospern' 'of the farmer, and a change from lan< without selling value to land in de mand at an advance of 50 to 150 pel cent, over the nominal price of one o: two years ago, is the most far reaching development in Southern advancemeni of the last quarter of a century. It is far-reaching in many ways. I means that within the last year or tw( Southern farm properties have increas ed not less than $1,000,000,000 in valuse probably at least $1,500,000,000. BU more than that, it means that unde: this improved financial condition thi Southern farmer has gained new cour age, new backbone; that he has learne< how to market his cotton crop; that hi has fought to a finish the great battli as to whether the producer or the spec ulator is to control the price of hi: staple. Having won this fight, the en :Ire handling of cotton from the fielt to the factory, whether the factory be in this country or in Europe. has en tered upon an entirely new stage in it: history. It also means that land wi. be more thoroughly cultivated, for th' successful man, whether he be farmer, a merchant, or a manufacturer is always better able to work to goo' advantage than the one who is fighting a losing battle. More and more the diversification o agriculture has gone on and more an< more have fruit growing and trucl raising, "hog and hominy," with the meathouse at home rather than In tha West, been developed throughout thi South. Briefs froaj Everjivese. 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