Show ANNUAL REPORT OF SECY WILSON VILSON t Suggests an Exclusion slon of Foreign Live Stock I AGAINST STATE rAPI INSPECTION Mutter nader d nature slum id hll Vor Iki irl Land tel cl Nov No 20 Tho annual re ie report port of ot Soy soy of or Wll on tells of ot the tho vast growth ot of nil all branches of t Urn time work An extension ot of weather forecast to 10 farmers IS through the time rural free tr e delivery Is IH contemplated Tho The that thill It II might bo bu well to or 01 this country to follow tullow tho tIme of Great autO and exclude live stock luck ft tout on other othe countries entirety The points out iut the tho serious ovll evIl result resultIng I MR from a of state Infection which It If It became would tho thu market lug IlIg of live stoc In some sOnie sectIons nut would restrict much of ot the tho i ot tie tte In Ho Ito legru ran tho tie ent conditions condition UJ 11 ii HO so to IC limo tho of 01 time In III tile Ille Wust Wo t und 1111 u t that lit lie hug te requested thu the to cm cooperate In time thu mullet before tile tue Court coun for fOI decision us as the tho th constitutionality of State lawa l Wd request hUll hue been favorably tn received and the tho tHeist ot of tho time of ot justice promised Tho me secretary assorts that much loss linn line Im resulted to tu tho cattle attic industry In Iu Inthe the time West In III recent years owing to tho the Injudicious of ot lao Ino show how that much touch amid c be done Omme under the proper to restore tile the ranges to their original conditions condition and ho Ito l action by J Congress tho the President dent authority to 10 secure se ur for tor tho the ex ox experimental needs of ot hi his hb department such tracts of ot public lands land II us many mU be 1111 necessary Fully Pully DO 10 per pel cent cont of tho date Introduced In recent r years aro tue now growing glowing vigorously In unit ammO California This Flits year yeul a II col collection lection of tho tito choicest varieties In lii Egypt has hus been obtained Sl LANDS rANDS Tho tI reports that tho Iho bureau Is with the fed toll urn I government with tho staten sIll Ie and amid all many maim private owners In hI handling their forest lands hinds Altogether the time u has huron been nAIled for tor a n total area of acres ot of which are arc hold held by hy private owners Forest Bt Investigations Include tho time study of commercial trees cud and economic tree of ot forest tires grazing forest production and other Important lines The work of tho the experiment station In Alaska with headquarters at Bitka subsidiary subs hi Irl stations at on ott Cook Inlet and alid nt at In the Yukon valley are recognized r aa as dis lie distinctly distinctly encouraging Front From I rom nil the evi QI evidence dence received at the department It seems clear that l agriculture may muy bo ho established In this thin territory I to 10 serve erve us an on Important aid tid to the tho mining lumbering antI and Indus Industries tries Irles I STATION IN IX i HAWAII 11 I During the tho year a station lifts has been established in Hawaii Among tho the first work nt ot this the planting of taro with the special object of studying the diseases ell seriously affect affectIng Ing log tint crop arop Probably 50 to per cent coat of tIme the working population of ot these Inlands l depend on tUIO for tor their dally laity food tood und and on account of ot these diseases and the time attendant deterioration of tIme the crop the tIme price of ot if taro tara has Isis Increased Iner nor pur cent In tho the last decade omo olne other diseases of ot fruits and und vegetables call for tor study anti and poultry experiments have been beell Inaugurated with a II view to Increasing the of poultry It Is reported that live hive lI chickens sell In Honolulu at str 15 Ui a dozen and Aud eggs ut at 40 to 10 60 0 O cents a Cl dozen Hogs Hogg bring front 10 to 10 17 cents ceu a u pound on tim tho hoof hoot find experiments have been undertaken III In the feeding of ot swine with various tubers and Md toots Tho The secretary regards It as nil extremely desirable thin lion should bo undertaken In tho tIme Philippine Islands under tho tIme war dO de department and In III cooperation with tho the department of ot agriculture litre In further furtherance alice ance of ot this work the secretary recommends recommends mends an nn additional appropriation of ot f lot for th the ensuing year Tho lito secretary devotes a n great groat dU 11 1 of ot space to a it discussion of ot Irrigation Investigations There been con eon through tho time ollice of at experiment stations toil and embrace 1 of ot Irrigation laws and nn tho the social nodal and end industrial institutions Institution of ot Irrigation agriculture 2 Investigation of ot tho the methods by which water wIllor la in Conserved and ammI used 1 In to the tue Hist Ilmet subject tho limo secretary states that the tho character of ot titles tithe to water recognized will ivill do 10 more morr than Ihan all other Influences com coin combined to 10 determine whether lImo tho west ern em tanners farmers ought to be or pro proprietors pile tors Naturally this makes the lie disposal of ot tho lito water resources of or lie tho West Vent a Cl matter of vital importance not only to the persons directly y Interested Interest d but to the he country nt at large FOR F n Tho secretary expresses es tho ho belief bellet that Irrigation will In time tho near future become a n subject for tor legislation by Congress there being Important rOI mum eons why hy It should have the attention of ot that hint body bod At the same lame he lie oily that those best Informed believe that lint the uncertain character ot of water rights can eun only bo ho remedied by a n larger er of ot public control nod tIme the mottle mak lug ing hI of ot certain claws of ot Irrigation structures permanently public works These Th It II Is IB urged l should tint not bo be 0 owned ownell by b private parties and the argument produced In III favor r of ot constructing res reservoirs reservoirs by net act of at Congress to is the time ramo ruline which Justifies setting aside fore forest t re me reserves reserves serves and the tIme maintaining of ot a fund to control thOrn them On thin tho other hand the he secretary points out that nn an apro lI pro of ot money by b Congress to con eon construct such Irrigation works will bring the tho country tore to 10 face fuce with a n anew anew new government policy and will wilh retry NItI a it larger measure of ot public nubIle control over oyer the tho water resources resource of ot tho the West Vest than has hns hitherto d or been sanc sane sanctioned by public sentiment He reviews review the Influence of ot the land laws on atm Irrigation Irrl development stating that laws lawn In which control tho lie of ot CiO acres of at Id public lends lands h must have n II vital lInt Influence upon tho the success of ot Irrigated agriculture HA lie Il condemns tho the desert land act net stating that GIO acres Is in more than n a man of moderato means cnn can cultivate under Irrigation Cutting down clown the tho entries from BID to 20 ares acres Is III an nn Improvement but iUt he believes In the entire repeal of the Iho desert esert land act and In requiring settlers or homesteaders to cultivate as Is well ns os live upon their land IlInd Referring to 10 the Iho grazing fazing lands IlInd lie Ill says probably acres of ot tho tile I public domain has hUH no Ito agricultural val value ai ailie ue tie except for pasturage It t Is at nt pres present present ent cat an un open proposition with no lan haac for United States Stales Sin I protection or disposal hib refers reters to the tho frequent uen t conflicts ot the farmers under Irrigation with the range stockmen and recommends an III a and a n beneficial measure the time leading of ot tho the grazing land lund In such a away awny way ivay as an not to La interfere with tho the home items slender The result rc ho he believes would amount of ot the he gate to n II large larg sum which could b be ap 1111 piled plied to the tho reclamation Of t tho Irrigable i lands Ho Ito points out that such uch Is ls not net an nn experiment ns nil It 11 line has bee been tried although In III n II limited way ivay o in Colorado Colora o Idaho Montana Utah mind ana Wyoming He lie winds winda up ulI tIle tie discussion of ot the tho subject by preen lair Ins tho the following conditions conclusions i Ins HIS CONCLUSIONS CO I First private enterprise will wll I have to bo LI supplemented by public old niu In hi hUhe the construction of certain clauses cf ot Irrigation works If It Wo We are aro to secure the ha largest development of ot western ag Cla agriculture ct le That reservoirs located IO In tho tIme channels of ot running streams should be bo public works the lie first stop step toward nn lanai aid f tor fr r Irrigation should be the passage 9 of at enlightened l Water laws las by the tIme states to be benefited Fourth the he land laws should be ho modified by J repealing the tho d ert nol net and by requiring cultivation us till well ell u a a on a homestead Fifth That the grazing lands land should br he leased In small email tracts BO so ua fill to unite the irrigable and the tho pai turc turo Undo lands SAN BAN JOSE SCALE The discovery coer 1 ite reported d by nn an ex ea expert C pert of ot the division sent to Asia for tor tho the purpose that the thA Bon Ban Jose Joso scale III la not indigenous to tn JO Rn but that It li Is mi fit fitIn li liIn In North China It has Mil been lIeen found In Inn ina a n section of thin country where then thero have havo been no and M aJI wi fruits are of ot na vo sorts Further In lit this thin district It MM M found to o have A s natural ladybird beetle b of r which the question tl n has col collected C l lIcce l many specimens ns and forwarded them to tl and steps will be bt betaken taken to In acclimate important Rile cite cle This ThU Importation will doubtless prove of ot extreme value to era c ra 3 In this thU country Another valuable i i M Of fth II iq 4 ot of on one which fIOd Il dl n of IU lit IV hub tt II U |