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Show . POSTAL EXTENSIONS And Progress of Agricultural Do-Secmfw Do-Secmfw cmfwy crafw cmfwy cm serving Commendation. THE postal service has been extended and .Improved. Its revenues havo Increased from $70,000,000 In 1895 to $95.0C0,C00 In 1S99, and $141,000,000 In 1901. In dealing, with theso vast Hums, a few cases of peculation, trilling In amount and by subordinate officers, have occurred there us they occur In every business. Neither fear nor favor, nor political or personal lnfluenco has availed to protect the wrongdoors. Their acts hLve. been detected, Investigated, laid bare; they have been dismissed from their places, prosecuted criminally. Indicted, many of them tried, and many of them convicted. The abuses In tho carriage of ccond-closs mall matter havo been remedied. reme-died. The rural frco delivery has been wldelv extended. It is wholly tho creation of Republican administration. Tho last Democratic Postmaster-General declared It Impracticable. Tho first administration of McKlnley proved the contrary At tho beginning of tho fiscal year 1S99 there wero about 200 routes In operation. Thoro are low more than 25.000 routes, bringing a dallv mall service to more than 12.900,000 of pui- people In rural communities, enlarging en-larging the circulation of the newspaper and the magazine, increasing communication, communica-tion, and relieving tho Isolation of life on the farm. Farmers Protected." Tho Department of Agriculture has boon brought to a point of efficiency and practical prac-tical benefit nover beforo known. Tho oleomargarine act of May 9. 1902. now sustained sus-tained In the Supremo court, and the act of July 1, 1902, to provont the false branding brand-ing of food and dairy products protect farmers against fraudulent Imitations. The act of February 2. 1903, enables tho Socrctarv of Agrlculturo to prevent the spread of contagious and Infectious diseases dis-eases of live stock. Rigid Inspection has protected our cattle against Infection fram abroad, and has established tho highest credit for our meat products in the markets of tho world. The earth has been searched for weapons with which to fight the enemies that destroy tho growing grow-ing crops. An Insect brought from near the Groat Wall of China has checked th-i San Jose scale which was destroying our orchards; a parasitic fly brought from South Africa Is exterminating the black acalo In tho- lemon and orange groves of California; and an ant from Guatemala Is about offering battle to tho boll weevil. Broad science has been brought to tho aid of limited experience. Study of tho relations rela-tions between plnnt life and cllmato and soil has been followed, by the Introduction Introduc-tion of special crops suited to our varied conditions. The Introduction of Just tho right kind of seed has enabled tho Gulf Slates to lncreaso our rlco crop from 11C,-0C0.060 11C,-0C0.060 pounds In 189S to 400.000.000 pounds In 1903, and to supply the entire American demnnd. with a surplus for export. Tho right kind of sugar beet has Increased our annual production of boet sugar by over 200.COO tons. Seed brought from countries of little rainfall Is producing millions of bushels of grain on lands which a few years ngo wero deemed a hopeless part Of the arid belt. The systematic collection and publication publica-tion of Information regarding tho magnitude magni-tude and conditions of our crops, Is mitigating miti-gating the Injury done by speculation to the farmer's market. To Increase tho profit of tho farmer's loll, to protect tho farmer's product nnd extend his market, and to Improve tho conditions of th farmer's life; to ad-vanco ad-vanco tho tlmo when America shall ralso within her own limits every product of the soil consumed by her peoplo, as she makes within her own limits every necessary neces-sary product of manufacture, theso havo been cardinal oblccts of Republican administration; ad-ministration; and wo show a rocord of practical things done toward the accomplishment accom-plishment of those objects never beforo approached. - |