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rat ratafee togrtaeeeend forage plants. * 



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UM distinctive greases. 



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SAabfe utility that it is foremost to the new line, of 

 atfrirultural leeeareh. and the Secretary therefore 



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^rtAHlWikMi ill tha dMMftment. 



fortbeWeather Bureau 



was $1*1,100. Of that Miin $1W^OO, or 14 por cent., 

 ha* been saved and U returned to the Trva< 



i of this service, it may 



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in detaining safely in port MM Teasels, vsl 

 $tMSM", Udca with cargoes of probably still 

 at is much more important and 

 lives on these ships were 



lie Bureau of Animal In- 

 the expenditures for the 



year were only fitpytWJa, thus leaving unexpended 

 |$MATO.?. The inspection of be. 



i-noate trade has been continued, and 

 1MM464 bead were inspected during the year, at a 

 cost of It cent per heaoTagminst 4f cents for 1898. 

 rk microscopically examined was 

 against 80,677.410 pounds in the 

 'he cost of this inspection has been 

 from 81 cents per head in 1898 to 6t cents 



The expense of inspecting the pork sold in 1894 to 



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 ttt.10. The quantity inspected was greater by 16,- 

 000.000 pounds than diirimVthe preceduig year, when 

 the coat of such inspection was $17**7.0* 



the law 



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providing for the microscopic inspection of export 

 and interstate meat be so amended as to compel 

 i meat inspected to pay the cost of such 

 id 1 call attention to the arguments pro- 

 report in support of this recommenda- 

 pjasj 

 The live beef cattle exported and tagged during the 



K numbered 848^86. This U an increase of 69^88 

 over the previous year. 

 The sanitary inspection of cattle shipped to Europe 



has cost an average of 101 cents for each animal, and 

 the cost of inspecting Southern cattle and the disin- 

 of cars and stock yards averages 27 cento per 



inquiries of the Bureau of Animal 

 mgrcased ateadily during the year. 



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 for use in the agricultural colleges 



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Much 



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has published the 

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 vigorously continued. Ccr- 

 of Columbia will be thor- 



oughly iometad, and will probably supply adequate 

 scope for the department to intelligently pnmecute 



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thebaciliioftnhefvulais has been during the ye 



during the year 



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The OnVe^oTEqSLenTiSto?^ which is a part 

 tent of Agriculture, has 

 itself almost wholly in 

 works baaed upon the re- 



... . in EperiBM nt stati.-ns and other 

 institutions for agricultural inquiry in the liiitcd 

 States and foreign countries. 



The Secretary, in hi r.|H-rt for IMS, called atten- 

 tion to the fuel that the appropriations made lr the 

 mi]iport of the experiment stations thi-.u-h. ut tin- 

 were the only moneys taken out <! the na- 

 tional Treasi, -ress for which 

 countiiiK' t<> Federal authorities was re 

 fj-.ndiiiK' to this suggestion, the I i:i\ third < ngroas, 

 in making the appropriation tor thedepartmi 

 the present fiscal year, pi-. \i-ii-.i that 



Secretary t Agrifiilture shall j>recribe thu 

 form of annual financial statement required by sec- 

 tion 8 ' V: shall a 

 whether the xpenditures under the appn-j 

 hereby mad<- arc in a-corlan-e with the pro visions of 

 said act, and shall make n -port th< : irresa." 



[n obedienoe tO thifl law the hepartment oi 

 culture nun out blank forms of . 



tM to each station, and propose*, in a.. 

 to make, through ' 



nation of the several stations during each \ 

 the purpose of acquiri: -.Cation 



the detailed information n"eeessar\ t- 

 Secretory of Agriculture to make, as the 

 vide*,asati.-- Boards 



of manaK'cm nt .t the se\eral stati.ns, with great 

 alacrity and cordiality. ha\e appr-\ed tlie ; 

 ment to the law providing this supcrv. 

 UK' that it will 



efficiency ot the stations and protect their dj 

 and mahairerw from loose charges concerning their 



I ublic funds, besides briiiK p inK r th< 

 of Agriculture into closer and more confidential rela- 

 tions with the experimental stations, and through 

 their joint service, largely increasing their u>-< 



Viture ot' the country. 



Acting ujx-n a recoinmcn<lation contained in the 

 i ropriated $10,000 "to 



enable the S \ trrieulture to investigate and 



report uoon the nutritive value of the various articles 

 and commodities used for human food, with 

 suggestion of full, wholesome, and edible rations less 

 d and more economical than those in c< 



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Under this appropriation the department has pre- 

 pared and now has nearly ready for distribution an 



;ny discussion of the "nutritive vuli 



ry economy otf.HHi. Uh n we consider that 



fully one half .if all the iimnev earned by the wage 

 earners of the civilized wori. ad b\ them 



for food, the impoitfnce and utility of such 

 vestigation is apparent. 



The department e\iK-nded in the fiscal year 1898 

 $2^54.809.66 ; and out of that sum the total amount 

 expended in scientific research was 46*6 p< 

 Hut in the year ending June 80, 1894, out of a total 

 expenditure of $1.948,988.88, the department applied 

 61-8 per <ent. ot that sum to scientific work ana in- 

 vestigation. It is then plainly oh.-. 

 that the economies which have been practiced in the 

 administration of the department have not been at 

 the expense of scientific research. 



The recon : port of 



the Secretary for 1898 that -;.-; u, of 



promiscuous free di-tribution of its depart 

 documents be abandoned is again ur^cd. These 

 publications may well ) cost to 



public libraries, educa 1 : .d the 



officers and libraries of States m 

 Government. But from all individnala applying foff 

 them a price covering the cost of the do- 

 for should be required. Thus the publications and 

 nta would be secured by those who really 

 desire them for proper purposes. Half a million of 

 copies of the report of the Secretary of Agriculture 

 are printed for distribution at an annual cost of about 

 $300,000. Large numbers of them are cumbering 

 storerooms at the Capitol and the shelves of second- 

 * bookstores throughout the country. All this 



