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and where misconduct can be proved the punishment 

 should be exemplary. 



In no department of governmental work in re- 

 cent years has there been greater success than in that 

 of giving scientific aid to the farming, population, 

 thereby showing them how most efficiently to help 

 themselves. There is no need of insisting upon its 

 importance, for the welfare of the farmer is funda- 

 mentally necessary to the welfare of the Republic 

 as a whole. In addition to such work as quarantine 

 against animal and vegetable plagues, and warring 

 against them when here introduced, much efficient 

 help has been rendered to the farmer by the intro- 

 duction of new plants specially fitted for cultivation 

 under the peculiar conditions existing in different 

 portions pf the country. New cereals have been es- 

 tablished in the semi-arid West. For instance, the 

 practicability of producing the best types of maca- 

 roni wheats in regions of an annual rainfall of only 

 ten inches or thereabouts has been conclusively dem- 

 onstrated. Through the introduction of new rices 

 in Louisiana and Texas the production of rice in this 

 country has been made to about equal the home de- 

 mand. In the Southwest the possibility of regrass- 

 ing over-stocked range lands has been demonstrated ; 

 in the North many new forage crops have been 

 introduced, while in the East it has been shown 

 that some of our choicest fruits can be stored and 

 shipped in such a way as to find a profitable market 

 abroad. 



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