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Show HOUSTON STANDS 1 BY CONSERVATION People Do Not Adequately Ap- . Si I j preciate What Forest Serv- jlj ice Has Done. i f J j Washington, Sept. t. Secretary i'llljl Houston, back today from his vaca- L'wnl tion in New England, announced that I I j he Intended to renew, in his coming ; jjjj annual report, his views as to what p jnjljj should be provided in rural credits hi HI legislation, on which a joint commit- hIi! tee of congress is to work and report La 111 at the December session. He will p Km also lay1 special stress on the conser- 19 n vatlon of the meat supply of the L1H Jl country, on the importance of work , SB of developing the marketing and pur- Hill chasing of agricultural products along Wa co-operative lines on the economio Jj value of the national forests, and pn 1 11 the workings of the new cotton lu- I'liY lures law. t j I "I recently made a thorough inves- i "I j 111 tigation of the forests in the west," If SI II II Secretary Houston said, "and I be- pf ill lieve the great mass of people do not I'll Hi adequately appreciate the value of p BuJ their conservation. We belleye the i'Rilil country' can be built up better under ffiilfl n proper forestry policy than under '. llfl any plans In which the nation's ( H' lands can bo exploited and wasted." fl jl Secretary Houston believes that dl- 'B ill versification of crops is not only of , jl great importance to the general farm- i fti I ing interests but has proven a great F, 8 factor in the betterment of the cotton j ft' situation in the south. With the for- 't eign questions involved in the cotton I' SI problem of today the department la , I not specially concerned, .but Secre- , i tary Houston called attention to the ffl,' fact that the price of cotton is now ; higher, its cost of raising is lower, g many cotton farmers have been help- M j ed out by adopting the plan, of diver- M ' sifylng their crops. M A variety of cotton problems will W be worked out under investigations hw. to be provided for in the coming esti- Wg' mates to congTess. 'jfi Many special field investigations 1 are being completed. One of the most rB Important of these is the inquiry into . I i the citrus rust imported into Texas j from Japan and which has caused as rj much concern that the Florida legis- 1 lature recently appropriated $125,000 ,H8 : lor state co-operation with the fed- j eral experts. t ill nn til i |