QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



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934. Q. When was it discovered that certain crops enriclied the soil ? Green 



A. It was known in the days of the Romans. Varo, who lived 2000 Manuring. 

 years ago, wrote "certain things are to be sown, not with the hope of 

 very immediate profit being derived from them, but with a view to the 

 following year, because, being plowed in and then left in the ground, they 

 render the soil afterwards more fruitful." People of that day did not 

 know or even theorize on the reason, but simply worked from the results 

 of experience. The crops used by the Romans for this purpose was 

 lupins and vetches. 



935. Q. Will you give me the relative customs rates on agricultural Tariff 

 produce under the two Tariff Bills, McKinley and Wilson? Kates. 



A. Yes ; the small figures on the following schedule are the percent- 

 ages on the obsolete McKinley Bill, and the large black figures are the 

 present Wilson Bill ? 



Com 



Wheat 



Rye 



Oats 



Barley 



Buckwheat 



Potatoes 



Hay 



Wool 



Fruits 



Hides 



Eggs 



Vegetables . . . Not otherwise specified 



Tobacco 



f.- < Cleaned. 



^^^® I Uncleaned. 



Sugar 



Cotton 



Beans (Dried) ^ 



Cabbage 



Brown Corn 



Hops 



Onions 



Straw 



Flax Seed 



Apples (Green) 



WILSON BILL. 



30 per cent. 

 30 '« 

 SO " 

 30 " 

 30 " 

 20 



15c. Bush. 

 S2.00 Ton. 



Free. 



Kree. 



3c. Dozen. 



10 per cent. 



$1.50 lb. 



3.25 lb. 



.35 lb. 



•l^lb. 



.8-10 lb. 

 40 per cent. 

 Free. 



20 per cent. 

 Free. 

 Free. 

 8c. lb. 

 20c. Bush. 

 15 per cent. 

 20c. Bush. 

 20 per cent. 



m'kinley bill. 



15c. Bush, of 56 lbs. 

 25c. " 

 lOc. " 

 15c. ** 



30c. Bush, of 48 lbs. 

 15c. *" ** 



25c.' Bush, of 60 lbs. 

 »4.00 Ton. 



.11 lb. wools of 1st class. 



.12 " " 2(1 " 



32 per cent, wools of 3d & 4th 



classes valued at 13c. per lb. 



Free. 



5c. Dozen. 



25 per cent. 



$2.00 lb. cigar wrappers. 



$2.75 lb. cigar wrappers if 



stemmed. 



35c. lb. all other leaf not 

 stemmed. 

 2c. lb. cleaned, 

 l^c. lb. uncleaned. 

 Free. 

 Free. 



40c. Bush, of 60 lbs. 

 He. each. 

 $8.00 per ton. 



.15 lb. 



.40 Bush. 

 30 per cent. 

 30c. Bush of 56 lbs. 

 25c. Bush. 



936. Q. Will soils, however manured, refuse to produce continuous and crop-sick 

 oft- repeated crops of the same plant ? Soils. 



A. Yes ; this is especially the case with leguminous crops, but Dr. 

 Lawes for forty years has produced excellent crops of barley on the same 

 land, and an average crop of thirteen bushels of wheat for the same forty 

 years. 



