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Show II ' GOVERNMENT BY EXPERTS. During the war period, no branch of the government had greater responsibility responsi-bility than did the agricultural department depart-ment Among its activities, the department, depart-ment, according to the annual report, stimulated production, increasingly controlled plant and animal diseases, reducing losses from the cattle tick, I hog cholera, tuberculosis, predatory animals, and crop pests, and, in conjunction con-junction with the department of labor, rendered assistance to the farmers in securing labor. It safeguarded seed stocks and secured and distributed good seeds to farmers for cash at cost; acted jointly with the treasury department depart-ment in making loans from the president's presi-dent's special fund to distressed farmers farm-ers in drouth-stricken sections; aided in transferring stock from the drouth areas; greatly assisted in the marketing market-ing of farm products, and, under enormous enor-mous difficulties, helped the farmers to secure a larger supply of fertilizers. fertiliz-ers. At the direction of the president, it is administering under license the control of the stockyards and of the ammonia, fertilizer, and farm" equips ment industries. The department of agricultural is proving that a paternal government can be a wonderful aid to the people. The experts reach out to the home and even teach the women how to make bread, how to avoid waste, how to utilize uti-lize scraps, how to live so as to get most out of foodstuffs. The system is being received with delight. Eventually, other .departments .depart-ments of the government will do as the agricultural experts are doing, and then we shall have education more thoroughly supervised from Washington, Washing-ton, economies taught In all our public pub-lic utilities, and much, of the floundering flounder-ing around, which Is seen in public affairs, af-fairs, will be prevented. on |