Show IF Tile Agricultural Interests Washington 21The committee appointed by the National Grange to confer with Dr Loring Commissioner Commis-sioner of Agriculture in relation to elevating his department to a higher rank and to convey the protest of i the national grange against including includ-ing in that department other indus tries beyond the legitimate one which it representsagriculture discharged that duty today Commissioner Com-missioner Loring in reply said he had advocated an enlargement of his department so as to include those interests which were intimately ando and-o a great extent inseparably allied to the agriculture A bureau of manufacture ought to be established where producers could find such information formatIOn as would be for their best Interests There should be a mining min-ing bureau also President Gartield a short time before he received his death wound said that he thought the land office ought to be connected con-nected with a new department depart-ment of industries As to rail roads he thought something might be done by which the wole country might be benefited in the way of an equalization of fares and transpor t tion He thought it would be a benefit ben-efit to have tabulated freights and fares showing the working of the railroad systems in different states in connection with agricultural interests terests ns transportation toy land and water were closely allied to agriculture The commissioner could not urge any action looking towards making his a cabinet office This he left to the country and the legislation which agricultural interests inter-ests may demand |