Show OUR AGKICUIVrUttK i Makes ManY and Valuable The Secretary lukes Suggestions Washington Nov 26The Secretary of Agriculture in his report just submitted sub-mitted to the president regrets the I vague character of the department I caracter which he says I I opportunities for the exer offers great opportunites ofers cise of the most produced paternalism paternal-ism but he adds there are many I proper ways in which the federal government i prper gov-ernment may legitimately serve the i cause of agriculture He devotes considerable agculure he siderable space to a review of what regards a an anomalous partnership between the government of the United States and the governments of the respective spective states for the conduct and encouragement en-couragement of state agricultural colleges col-leges and experiment stations legs suggests that the stations be entirely en-tirely divorced from the department trly appropriated charged directly and the sum approprated rectly to them or the secretary should have some power t direct and restrain their disbursements so as to insure a He legitimate expenditure of the same adds that a thorough investigation should be made to demonstrate either the truth or the falsity of the report that trth money appropriated to the stations sta-tions has been diverted from its legiti mate purposes Jute reference t the expenditures in the secretary says his this department retry strenuous endeavors have been l rationally reduce the expenditures by the elimination from the pay rolls of all persons elminaton needed for the efficient conduct of the department The employees em-ployees when he took charge numbered ployes num-bered 2427 and there are now on the berd 242 pay rolls only 1994 In the first quar reduced the expenditures fiscal he ter of the fscl year rduced penditures in comparison with the corresponding cor-responding quarter of last year over responding estimates for the next year show a net savings over the appropriations ap-propriations current of 536965694 Classified service is pronounced defective de-fective largely owing to the inequalities fectve to with reference ties in compensation services rendered He argues appropriations appro-priations should be made in gross for the nrhtnn clerical force and full discretion given the head of the department in the matter of remuneration mater in He states that only 87 employes the classified service came in 4jy certification cla sled tification by the civil service commission commis-sion while 647 persons have been covered cov-ered into the classified service of the department by presidential orders The distribution of seed Is reviewed and a considerable saving is shown to have been effected in the purchase and distribution of seed this year In the work of the bureau of animal industry the result of the Texas fever regulations was pronounced highly satisfactory but to increase the efficiency satsfactor is suggested that a penalty should be attached for a violation of atached the department regulations by railroad companies transporting affected cattle The total number of import animals inspected the past year was 463389 total export of cattle Clll542 A further fur-ther reduction was effected by vessel reducton the percentage of cattle lost at sea the ratio being for the last year less than half of one per cent An amendment providing for the inspection in-spection of horses imported into the country Is suggested A careful comparison countr for 1893 parison of the net exports with 1892 shows that microscopic Inspection In-spection has not Increased our foreign sales and the secretary thinks it does not pay There are further recommendations bureau for legisla in the work of the legsla lion compelling the immediate destruc compelng te ton of any animal or carcass condemned con-demned by the United States inspectors inspect-ors for the extension of work in regard or re-gard to tuberculosis in cooperation with local authorities until the danger dan-ger wit human life has been reduced to the minimum and for the civil service examination for Inspectors and assistant I assist-ant inspectors with the requirement of a diploma from a regular veterinary college Urgent recommendations are made for a more thorough and extended extend-ed effort in behalf of forestry and the completion of the experiments in sorghum sor-ghum sugar growing A stage has been reached when individual enterprise can and should take advantage of cn what the department has accomplished Recommendations are made for a small appropriation for the weather bureau It is stated the work is carried on with improved efficiency and economy The reorganization of the bureau partially effected is designed to modify expenses expen-ses and magnify the value of the service ser-vice to agriculture commerce and the people at large The vast importance of the work of the division of statistics is forcibly presented Referring to the possibility of the vital closing of the markets for AmerIcan Amer-Ican products in some ports of the old world he says it must be due to the high tariff duties upon all products the foreigners desire to sell in our own market He says the question Is pre the American sented once more to te AmerIcn mind Can any country shut out the commodities and products of other nations na-tions without shutting In a value equal tons things shut out Reference to the immense aggregate of the imports im-ports of agricultural products suggest that an Inquiry whether ought not a large proportion of these be produced upon our own soil in proximity to our own markets where the Immense demand de-mand exists and the reply Is In the affirmative Our fare would be benefitted by a large number of subsidiary sidiary crops The overproduction of certain staples should be avoided the variety of our agricultural supplies in foreign markets increased and the markets themselves multiplied There are promises of improved services ser-vices by the department in the future and recommendations of useful Innovations Inno-vations relating to the work 10 detail are withheld In view of the Indefinite character of the duties of the forces and the possibilities of the department |