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Show : WHAT the department: OF AGRICULTURE IS DOING .'' S ftSt BUILDING SWEET TO- I " TATO STORAGE This will .bo a big year In pwcer, ' potato storage house construction In tho south, according to a specialist , ot tho United States Department of Agriculture who recently mado an V Inspection of storage houses In Lou- 1 'Sra Islana erected In tho fall of 1918. WM - tho success ot theso houses U re- ,ir)' markablo, ho reports, when tho ad- l, verso conditions under which the It i crop was harvested are considered. ' 1 ' Records kept by sevoral growers ' show-a loss from rot as low as 1 jior 4 cent. Plana havo already been mado for eorctlon this season In Louisiana i , ot eight storage houses wltli an nv- - erage capacity of 20,000 bushels. A j : , Oeorgla company lso peratlng storago houses with an aggregato capacity ot 'i more than 125,000 bushels. Those & houses, which havo been in success- S-&. ful operation for several years, wero SPPJSr rectod according to plans furnished -, hgr by the Bureau ot Markets. I j "II. A. I." SKi YEAHS OLD I ' May 20th will bo Uio thirty fifth I birthday of lite Dureau of Animal I ' Industry ot tho United States Do- , partment of Agriculture. When tho Ef bureau' beagn operations In 1884 It j ' had a staff of less than 20 employes; now It has more than 5200 working through 13 divisions and offlces. The 1 bureau works to upbuild tho live 1 1' stock Industry genorally and to lay in foundation for its development i along permanent lines. Ninety per cent tit its employees are In the field I; arylng on organlzecTInspection hnc I etxcnslon work In every state in the Union and In some foreign coun-j tries. Included In tho major work' of Uie bureau Is eradication of anl- mat diseases, such as tuberculosis, I hog cholera, scabbles and tho fever carried by tho cattlo tick and some I of Its most effective work has been done in stamping out epidemics or the dangerous scourge, foot and mouth disease. It conducts federal ' meat Inspection, Investigates methods meth-ods ot breeding and handling all kinds of live stock and poultry, and ministers federal quarantining ngalnst Infectious animal diseases. I "VIXKGAU DEES" HAVE .LITTLE VAIiUn Housewives can avoid being stung by vinegar, bees ,or beer bees, If they will keep In mind that tho product advertised under theso; and other names Is only a wild yeast ot little value, say tho specialists ot trio iJur-cau iJur-cau of Chemistry, United Stntes Department De-partment of Agriculture. Many in quiries recently received Indicates that soma enterprising individuals and firms arc advertlnlng this wltd 'yeast under tho names vigner bees, beor bees, wlno bees, Australian bees and various other designations. Extravagant claims nro mailo for the product and a fancy price out of all proportion to Its original cost or actual ac-tual worth is asked say tho yeast specialists ot the department, In some advertisements which .have reached tho department tho sellers sel-lers assert that tho substanco when mixed with water and molasses or sugar will produce vinegar, beer or wine. Othor promoters go so far n lo say that the fermented mixture Is beneficial in the treatment of rheumatism rheu-matism and kidney trouble clatmB which have no foundation in fact. The primitive process for making bees was to expose to the air a mixture mix-ture of corn meal and molasses until un-til It 'became Impregnated with the wild yeast and bacteria. The ferment fer-ment so produced was employed locally lo-cally In making a sort of vinegar or certain alcoholic solutions by adding ad-ding It to a mixture ot water and cither brown sugar or molaBses, which was allowed to work or ferment. fer-ment. In Uio opinion ot tho department specialists, a product mado by catching catch-ing yeast and bacteria Indiscriminate ly from tho air may contain harmful as well as desirable organisms and tho specialists state that great care should be exercised In both the preparation pre-paration and tho ubo ot Buch a product. pro-duct. In their Judgment bees are not ns well suited for fermentation as Is tho ordinary yeast cako which can bo obtained from any grocer at mucn less than tho fancy price asked for 'vlnegnr beca, and they can not recommend rec-ommend bees at all for making vinegar. vine-gar. I CLUH OIHLS CAN FOE OTHERS Seven cents a pint, 10 cents a quart and 15 cents a half gallon Jar weio tho pi Ices charged for canning ast season by Margaret Kirk, a Knfct-ma Knfct-ma county, Wash., club gill. After sho and two other girls completiM several years ot canning clulTwoik, the club leader ot the county ap pointed by tho United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture nnd tho State college, proposed that they sell their canning experience. Uusy housewives house-wives in their locality wero eager to employ some one who could do this work for- them. -Tho llttlo Industry at first was established In the high school kltchon, but when the other two girls found difficulty In continu ing tho work Miss Kirk moved it to i her home Her patrons hrougtit tho i produce-, Jars and otlior necessities to her and returned for the flnlMinJ i work. All nummcr she had as many patrons ns she could accommodate. Her profits for her summers work I were $312 37. Besides this com- ' I merclal work, she canned for her own family and spent several days at tho school houso canning tor tho soldiers at Camp Lewis. Miss Kirk was awaided the Washington state I championship for canning In 1918. SUOAH CROP ABOVE AVEEAOE In the sugar campaigns recently ended the I'nlted States Iibb produc- Ied an amount of sugar that Is estimated estim-ated by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture's Bureau of Crop Estimates to be over 2,H0,-000,000 2,H0,-000,000 pounds and this quantity la 2G.000.000 pounds nbovo tho avor-ugo avor-ugo of the last bIx years beginning with the year boforo tho war began. Having two principal sources of domestic do-mestic sugar production, beet and cano the variations of ouo crop often fit Into those of the other so as to 'give some degreo of steadlnuu to tho total ot Uio two. To nome extent I this happened last year, since Hip jcano sugar crop was 569,000,000 pounds or 60,000,000 pounds above the six year average and tho beet I sugar crop 1,530,000 pounds or 30,-000,000 30,-000,000 under tho average, whllo the ! production of maple sugar, including includ-ing the sugar equivalent of sirup, was 41,507.000 pounds, or 6,000,000 pounds below tho nveragr. All togethor tho domestic sugar crop Is usually about one qunrtcr of the domestic consumption, tho receipts re-ceipts from American possessions about ono quarter, and tho Imports from foreign countries nnout onn-half. onn-half. Beet sugar proauctton in iho I United States has gained rapidly on cane sugar during tho last 20 years and permanently exceeded It In 1900 and 1907 so that It has been about .two and three quarters times tin cano sugar ciop during tho last sl3 years. To the sugar production may b( " added that ot sirup and honey. It n " estimated that the BUgar oqulvulem of tho cano sirup laBt year Is 174,1 000,000 pounds nnd ot tho sorghum sirup 146,000)000 pounds, while honey hon-ey amounted to 54,915,000 pounds, (carrying forward tho cenjua for 1909), not computed Into equivalent sugar. Without Including corn strup for which no estlmato Is made, the grand total production of li'Mt sugar, su-gar, cane sugar and sirup, maple sQ- |