No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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The marketed proflnction of ])yrite in the United States since 1882 

 is given in the following table: 



Marketed Prodnction of Pyrite in the U. S., 1882-1914, in Long 

 Tons. 



1882, 

 1S83, 

 1884, 

 18S5, 

 1886, 

 1887, 

 1888, 

 1889, 

 1890. 

 1891, 

 189?, 

 1893, 

 1894, 

 1895, 

 189!'>, 

 1897, 

 1898, 



Year. 



1S99, 

 1900, 

 1901, 

 1902, 

 1903, 

 1904, 

 1905, 

 1906, 

 1907, 

 1908, 

 190<9. 

 1910, 

 1911, 

 1912. 

 1913, 

 1914. 



Quantity 



174,734 

 204, 61 1: 

 •241,691 

 •307,874 

 •233,127 

 207,081 

 253,000 

 261,442 

 247,387 

 222,598 

 247,070 

 241,613 

 301,458 

 3,S0,92I 

 341, 33f; 

 336,66.':: 



Value 



543,249 



749,991 



1,257,879 



947,089 



1,109,818 



814,808 



93'', 492 



931,305 



794, 949 



867, US 



1,028,157 



977,978 



1,164,871 



1,334.269 



1,286,034 



1,283,346 



•Includes iiroduction of natural sulpbur. 



The figures for 1915 are not at command but the enormously in- 

 creased demand for sulphuric acid by the makers of high explosives 

 has probably vastly increased the output of the United States and 

 increased its cost. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIVESTOCK 



By MR. W. F. THROOP, Chairman. 



My chief interest lies in agriculture. That is why I am dairyman. 

 The future of agriculture, which means the future of the people, is 

 to a great extent bound up in dairying. Agricultural pre-eminence 

 can best be conceived through the best development of stock hus- 

 bandry. Any business gains in its returns, in its interests, in its 

 attractiveness, just in proportion to its complexity; just in proportion 

 to the natural effort it takes to handle it. When you introduce 

 into the business of stock-raising the element of superior intelligence 

 of plan, of purpose and long continued and persistent effort, just 

 the minute that you put that business, or any other business before 

 people who have money, just as long as it takes a mind to run a 

 business it will attract^ other minds to it, and its future is assured. 



We are just now in an era when the greatest intellectual pursuit 

 of this country is agriculture. It takes more money, more plans, 

 more courage more inspiration than any other kind of a farmer 



