Show a i QBfWilBY 10 i i orONS t f l K JJ obliMAtir P 1t 1 = 3 PNTRRE > c TNG REYOR1 r lt Dealscwith Subjects Gon z T = l nected witti Agriculture n Agi J culture I 1 t CRITICAL REVIEW OF I FOREIGN MARKETS 1 iAfcSTKAlrA OUR CHIEF COMPETITOR COMPETI-TOR FOR BEEF TRADE Gr at Britrtin TaUcs More Than Half of All Our Exports of BreadstwiTa rrovlKionn Cotton and Tobacco With Ten Millions in Dressed l erA Policy Retaliation Justified Jus-tified Lnrec Increase In Exports t Washington INOV 28The annual report re-port of the cretary of agriculture is t particularly interesting because of its references to currenttroubles with foreign I for-eign governments over the importation of American products He reviews the subject of foreign markets and gives j i figures of four agricultural experts especially those of Great Britain That I country paid during the year 1893 for L American breadstuffs provisions cotton cot-ton and tobacco over 1324090000 Including In-cluding about 10000000 worth of mineral min-eral oil with agricultural exports the United ingdom took 5431 per cent of i all cxpoM of breadstuffs provisions o mineral oils cotton and tobacco Of dressed beef Great Britain took from us durJng the first six months of the year 1S94 510090000 worth AustraI r Ssia is our chief competitor for th raac F Mr lorton deems 4 1 probable the American farmer will find more advantage wit ri vantage from the shipment of dressed L1 beef than from the exportation of live cattle h Referring to the repeated allegations on the part of 1 he European governments govern-ments tha t live animals from the United States are diseased the secretary secre-tary expresses the opinion these allegations alle-gations arc sometimes based on fear of infection but are at other times Iade for economic reasons He ar gies i all American beef going abroad were shipped in the carcass bearing the government certificate as to wholesomeness whole-someness it certainly could not be shutout i shut-out on account of the alleged diseases dis-eases He suggests if certain European nations continue to insist on micro scopical inspection of our pork and veterinary inspection of our beef with governmental certification to each the United States government might well insist upon such inspection and cer eification by such foreign governments of all importations therefrom whether c edible or beverages intended for human hu-man consumption He reports a very large increase in the exports of beef and hog products over the previous year with on the other hand a marked decline in the exports ot wheat The review of the foreign market leads him to certain conclusions as to the future of our export trade in ag ricultural products as follows Competition of Russia Argentina Argentna Australia and other countries favored by conditions which enable them to grow wheat at a low cost and espec sally the proximity of their wheat growing regions to water communications I communica-tions warns American farmers to no longer depend upon wheat as a staple export crop On the other hand a good market at fair prices is to be found in the United Kingdom forbarley and corn and ow ing to the great variety of uses to which i may be applied promises to be inconstant in-constant and increasing demand The secretary reports the inception of two important scientific investigations the first relating to grasses and forage plants the other agricultural soils and crop production The secretary believes the importance of these investigations justifies the creation of each into an independent division and he has so provided in the appropriation for the ensuing fiscal year With reference to the weather bureau bu-reau the secretary shows that nearly JHOOOO has been saved from the appropriations appro-priations covered back into the treasury treas-ury He shows that by heeding admonitions i ad-monitions of the bureau relative to the great tropical storm of September 1S94 vessels valued at over seventeen million lion dollars were saved so in October when over twelve hundred vessels valued at nineteen million dollars were kept in port owing to the bureaus warning Moreover many human lives t were preserved The secretary con cludes the investment is a paying one and properly comes within the functions func-tions of the government The work of the bureau of animal industry during dur-ing the yearlias been greatly increased notwithstanding the reduction in the appropriation The secretary concludes con-cludes a review of the inspection of export and interstate meat with the recommendation that the law providing for the same may be so amended as to compel the owners of the meat insoec ted to pay the cost of the inspection The inspection of American cattle in England is still continued More than two years have passed without the development de-velopment of any pleuro pneumonia or other disease in this country which might be dangerous to British stock interests The hoped for revocation I nevertheless remains unrealized Th1 scientific investigations of the 4 bureau have progressed steadily I Special mention is made in the appropriation I appro-priation bill for the current year of tuberculosis and sheep scab as diseases j The secretary of agriculture is authorized I author-ized to guard against cases in view of the danger to human life from tuberculosis I tuber-culosis and the sterilization of milk nas been thoroughly explained 5n a leaflet I which has had a wide circulation I appears sterilization of milk may be a safeguard wherever milk is used The Russian thistle is made the text for a suggestion that seeds of new grasses and other plants from abroad must be hereafter very carefully inspected in-spected The report conclude with A statement state-ment showing that of the total exports of this country for 1894 fiscal year farpi products aggregated 5628000000 or 7258 per cent of the whole The markets of the world he says demand from the American farmer the very best quality of breadstuffs and materials The farmer exchanges his products the results of his labors which have specific purchasing power for money having a general purchasing T h power Under tne lEaamg or prme pork give us prime currency the secretary sec-retary asks Would the 5600000000 worth of farm products fro the United States sold Jast year lo foreign nations have been 15 remunerative to the American farmer farm-er if they had been paid for in silver s they have been when paid Cor in i gold or its equivalent I When the standard coin of the republic re-public snail bp made of metal worth as much after d is melted 3S it purports to be worth in coin and the mint values and the commodity xalues of all metal equal it v111 lic money approximately i 1 not the American farmer and all other citizens become more permanently prosperous I the American farmer or Jaoorar 1 manufacturer are compelled by Jaw to submit to the mcasurencnt of the value of the products of their efforts by a silver standard will not the foreign t < krr 0 e > y MSf Jtr 4 r erIn buying these proXluctsr always use Ute same measure lie asks With his beef pork and cereals the American farmer money sind why should he not demand a superlative quality in tat which lip buys a the domestic and foreign purchasers insist upon in that which he sells I these buyers demand prime t > eef ihd prime pork why should ntit the farmer demand prime currency the bet measure of value the most far find facile medium 61 exchange in the most unfluctuating money which the I world of commerce has ever invented |