Show WILSONS REPORT I 1 I What tho Bureau of Agriculture Has Accomplished During the Past Year Washington Dec 3Thc Secretary of Agriculture opens his report with a reference lo the cducallonal work of the department which hu says has grown In effectiveness since his last annual report He finds that Ire dc mandn of many public inslllutlons for men lo conduct research In scientific fields and for ability to manage agricultural agri-cultural enterprises encourage young men to lake advanlniro of the opportunities oppor-tunities thus afforded The leaalilng of the science of agriculture and ijf I the sciences relating lo it are receiving more attention In the colleges Instituted Insti-tuted for the purpose many of which have neglected their full duty In the past INSPECTION ANIMALS AND MEAT i Under the Inspection iiorvlce of the bureau of animal Industry ante mortem Inspections for the year aggregate nearly GO000030 at a cost of a fraction over 1 cent each The number of postmortem post-mortem Inspections waR nearly TO000 000 The meat Inspection stamp waf affixed to over 23000000 packages of meat products and the number of cer UllcalcR of ordinary Inspection IPSUCC I for meat products for exporl exclusive of borne flesh was 32711 Tho quantity of pork examined microscopically and exported excceeded n3000000 pounds AllopPtlHT ihi > value of oxporlsolirhl I mals and animal l productions for the year amounted to S2I473XOR2 fun clearances clear-ances of vppselH carrying live stock was 837 and the innpecllon of these vessels has reduced the L porcenlaye of loss In ocean transit to t 0 13 per cent for oallle OSO per cent for sheep and to 005 percent per-cent for horses REMEDY FOR SHEEP POISONING The losses to sheep owners on the great stock ranges of the Northwesl from poisonous plants aggregate annually annu-ally 5SOOOOO The study of these polH onous plunls has developed an antidote Lou some of them not only effective but which can be rapidly applied SOIL SURVEY5 The soilsurvey work of 1S90 and 1900 has been discontinued In Utah but It Is proposed to assign a parly for six months during the next Held season to survey the Irrigable lands around Utah Lake The work around Salt Lake City Is being followed up by a drainage Investigation having for its object the I I reclamation of some of the alkali lands I IRRIGATION The distribution and use of western rivers requires legislation on the irrigation irri-gation Industry which In turn renders It necessary that there should be a better bet-ter understanding of the subject than flOW exists The Department Is securing se-curing information as to the quantity of water used where It Is used how much water Is I required In the matter qf crops how It can be distributed with the least lobs and applied to the besl advanlage Much has been done to I educate farmers and ditch managers as to the direction In which Improvement in the method of practice must come They have made plans have shown the used of better work in constructing and maintaining canals and have shown that the loss of water through leakage In transit is far greater than is goner j ally supposed The large problems I which the complete use of western rivers I riv-ers destined I lo create and the measure of public control which recent legislation legisla-tion renders Inevitable give added interest in-terest lo the Departments studies of the legal and economic phnoes of Irrigation Irri-gation Through the courtesy of Government officials in Kgypt l the representative of lie Department was enabled to become be-come fully acquainted with the administration admin-istration of laws governing the use of the Nile Allowing for differences In conditions the lesson of one of the oldest old-est Irrigated countries In the world cannot can-not fall to be of Interest and value lo one of the youngest A number of the arid States cooperate with the Department Depart-ment In these studleK of sociological and legal problems |