300 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table V— CoDtinneil. 



Countries. 



I ilo-wers and 



PloNvs and 

 Horse- '"'""';:'';"'"! cultivat- 

 powrors. UdDartaof "" ""'l 



A)l otiiflra 

 and parts 



of rot el«o- 



where 

 spocitiod. 



Total. 



Mexico 



!Ketlierland9 



Peru 



Portng.il 



Azore, Madeii-a, and Cape Verde Islands.. . 



Koumania 



Bussia on the Baltic and AVliite Seas 



Kussia on the Black Sea 



San Domingo 



Spain 



Cuba 



Porto Rico 



Spanish possessions in Africa and adjacent 



islands 



Spanish possessions, all other 



Sweden and Norway 



Turkey in Europe 



United States of Colombia 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



All other countries and ports in South 



America not elsewhere specified 



All other countries and ports in Afiica not 



elsewhere specified 



721 



250 

 621 



Total 



12, 058 

 231 



113 



50, 340 



134, 723 



17, 445 

 307 



22, 175 

 3, C70 

 1,409 



.54,599 

 124 



64 



24, 935 



137 



2, 550 



45 



73 



247 

 ISO 



1,573 



)-C2 



22, 244 



4,083 



37 



I, 503 



5(i, C50 



277 



78 



28, 622 2, 000, 208 



352, 304 



33, 934 



2, 225 



4,465 



388 



525 



2,069 



20, 976 



34G 



4H0 



5, 074 



1,034 



5, 540 

 2,202 



2,798 



9, 367 



448 



250 



71, 64S 



2,815 



7,255 



433 



508 



113 



52,844 



155, 870 



1,91S 



18,787 



27, G23 



5,717 



37 



a, 5-10 



24, 437 



3,923 



6,391 



120, 623 



849 



334 



64 



965,543 I 3,412,767 



I 



Over balf of this exportation has been taken by the countries of Xorth 

 and South America, Africa, and Australasia. The recent increase of 

 exports of reapers has been largely due to the increased demand for the 

 improved self-binders. In 1884, according to j\[r. A. Blue, secretary of 

 the bureau of industries of Ontario, three thousand self-binders were 

 brought into that province. The number of mowers and reapers ex- 

 ported in 1884 was double the number for 1882. 



THE MOI^EY VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



Agriculture involves all physical science. Earth, air, light, heat, and 

 •moisture are ever factors in vegetable germination and growth. Nat- 

 ural laws direct and control the operations of the husbandman, how- 

 ever ignorant, and his i)ractice, if wise and judicious, is an unconscious 

 formula of the results of science applied to agriculture. TJiiis wc find 

 in every rural community, however primitive and unlettered, peculiar 

 methods and traditionary practices, which are crystallized common sense 

 and unwritten science. 



There is a vast distance, however, between the unconscious science of 

 the untaught farmer and the highest application of the latest discov- 

 eries of natural laws, and that distance will be greatly extended in the 

 future. 



Experiments in vegetable physiology and the increase of production 

 by enlarging the natural supply of mineral constituents are question- 

 ings of nature suggested by the latest scientific development, the an- 

 swers to which may lead the way to higher production at lower cost. 



This brings to view the idea of my theme — that there is money in ex 

 periment, in high culture, in scientific agriculture. As profit is a prime 

 aim in agricultural production, next to the necessity of subsistence, it is 



