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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
M ason & iiamlin organs and 
PIANOS.—Everybody knows the 
Mason and Hamlin organs. These instru¬ 
ments excel in the quality of their tone. 
In addition to this, they are always well 
made and handsomely finished. They will 
last. They are built for business and for 
business of the finest character. Send for 
a catalogue to the Mason & Hamlin Organ 
Co., Boston, Mass. 
Belle City Cutter. —Catalogue from 
the Belle City Manufacturing Company, 
Racine, Wisconsin. The feed and ensilage 
cutters made by this firm are of all sizes 
from the small hand machine to the large 
ensilage cutter capable of chopping up 24,- 
000 pounds per hour. These cutters are in 
use by hundreds of farmers, and the manu¬ 
facturers can show some of the strongest 
possible testimonials from practical men 
who look at the matter from a lusiness 
standpoint entirely. A new feature of the 
Belle City cutters is the new self-feed'ng 
chain attachment which is considered a 
great labor-saving device. This firm also 
sells horse powers, saw mills, root cutters, 
feed carts, cultivators, harrows, hay forks, 
etc. Send for this excellent catalogue. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas.— A 
catalogue of fruit trees, grapes and orna¬ 
mental trees and shrubs adapted to the 
Southern climate. The promising Parker 
Earle Strawberry is now offered for the 
first. 
Clover Cutter. Circular from P. A. 
Webster, Cazenovia, N. Y. This is a very 
handy little machine for preparing clover 
and grass for poultry. It chops the clover 
into short bits, leaving it in just the right 
condition for the hens. The R. N.-Y. has 
one of these cutters and is much pleased 
with it. Poultrymen will do well to in¬ 
vestigate this matter. Send for circulars. 
Agricultural Report.— The first re¬ 
port. of the Secretary of Agriculture is a 
brief, pointed, comprehensive document, 
bristling with facts, and prolific in sugges¬ 
tions and recommendations. Secretary 
Rusk evidently believes that he holds his 
ofiice for the benefit of the agriculturists of 
the country, and he appeals earnestly and 
confidently for such support as will enable 
him to acquit himself creditably in the po¬ 
sition assigned him, and to see that the 
work confided to him is efficiently per¬ 
formed. 
The Secretary makes the usual refer¬ 
ences to the work of the several scientific 
and other divisions in his Department, and 
in addition he deals at length with certain 
plans for the thorough re-organization of 
the Department of Agriculture and sug¬ 
gests several new features in the interest 
of the development of agriculture. The 
first efforts toward a re-organization were 
hampered because of the surprising fact 
that the appropriations for the current fis¬ 
cal year were made entirely upon the basis 
of the old organization, no account being 
taken of the entire change in the status of 
the Department. A striking contrast is 
drawn between this amount and the ap¬ 
propriations for agriculture made by those 
countries which the report says “are the 
most active competitors of American farm¬ 
ers in the world’s market.” A comparison 
shows that Great Britain appropriates for 
agriculture <1.500,000, Germany £3,850,000, 
Brazil <20,000,000 for agriculture and mines, 
France <8,000,000 for agriculture alone, and 
Austria more than <4,000,000. 
It is his desire to organize the Department 
upon even a broader plan than these and 
other countries have established. 
The Secretary pays a high compliment to 
Assistant Secretary Willetts. The problem 
which presented itself to the Secretary of 
getting the results of the work done by the 
Department more promptly before the peo¬ 
ple, has been solved by the establishment 
of a new division, which furnishes prompt¬ 
ly to the agricultural and commercial press 
a synopsis of the main points of every bul¬ 
letin and report published by the Depart¬ 
ment. Citing the circulation of the papers 
which have received and utilized the syn¬ 
opses furnished by the Department, the Sec¬ 
retary regards the plan as virtually covering 
the entire field, “ for,” he adds, “ the farm¬ 
er who does not read some paper devoted 
to his calling is beyond the reach of intelli¬ 
gent effort on his behalf.” 
-The results of the labors of the Division 
of Entomology have been of great import¬ 
ance. Several parasitic enemies of the 
Scale insect so destructive among the 
orange-groves of California have been suc¬ 
cessfully introduced. Special investigations 
have also been made of the leaf-mite of the 
orange in Florida, the horn-fly, an imported 
pest of cattle in the middle Atlantic States, 
the grain aphis in the Central States, and 
blights, fungi, etc., in different localities. 
The Secretary says that interest in silk 
culture still remains unabated, and he is 
very hopeful of the future of the industry. 
Of the crop-reporting system, the Secre¬ 
tary says, “ * * * While approximate and 
valuable, it is in danger of becoming dis¬ 
credited by the popular acceptance of its 
results as exact in precision and absolute 
in authority. It should be remembered 
that they are not the conclusions of a thor¬ 
ough census, though they may be far bet¬ 
ter than the work of a poor census; that 
they are the consolidations of local esti¬ 
mates of agricultural experts, and are in¬ 
tended as a foil to the interested, biased 
and untruthful statements that speculators 
issue to mislead their victims.” Of the 
rapid development of agriculture in the 
Rocky Mountain districts, the Secretary 
says that the Division of Statistics has b r en 
directed to investigate their resources with 
all the facilities at its command. “ The re¬ 
sults,” he adds, “ will surprise the Eastern 
States with views of wealth and progress 
of the Great American Desert of the recent 
past.” 
The region where the sorghum-sugar in¬ 
dustry may be attended with success has 
been localized in the southern part of 
central Kansas, west and south of Wichita, 
and in parts of the Indian Territory re¬ 
sembling it in soil and climate. There are 
perhaps other parts of the United States 
where similar success could be secured, but 
these have not been pointed out. Special 
attention is to be given to the development 
of varieties of sorghum containing a higher 
content of available sugar. Important 
progress has already been made in this di¬ 
rection. Many localities in the United 
States, especially in the north and on the 
Pacific coast, are known to be specially 
suitable for the production of a sugar beet 
rich in saccharine matter. The interest in 
this subject developed by the successful 
experiments in California will be met by 
the publication during the coming winter 
of a full report on the beet-sugar industry 
in the I'nited States. 
The Botanical Department is to be spec¬ 
ially occupied in an effort to solve the 
problem of increasing the forage yield on 
the 200,000,000 acres of the arid region out¬ 
side of possible irrigation by promoting the 
productiveness of the grasses now growing 
there. To aid in this work, and in procur¬ 
ing a productive grass for the Southern 
States, the Department proposes to under¬ 
take experimental work specially devoted 
to this subject. In regard to textile fibers, 
the question now occupying the attention 
of the Department is the utilization of flax, 
jute, ramie and other fibers, all of which 
can be cultivated in certain sections of this 
country by means of improvements in ma¬ 
chinery, such as will do away with the ex¬ 
cessive manual labor incident to its prep¬ 
aration for manufacture. A special in¬ 
vestigation into this field of labor in Europe 
is now being made by a capable man com¬ 
missioned by the Secretary for that purpose. 
In treating of the office of experiment 
stations and their work, the Secretary em¬ 
phasizes the necessity of remembering “that 
quality more than magnitude decides the 
value of every enterprise, and that this one 
can attain its highest success only in pro¬ 
portion as the laws which underlie the 
practice of agriculture are discovered and 
made available to the practical toilers of 
the farm.” The report urges the duty of 
the government to assume a more definite 
supervision of such forest areas as are still 
owned by it and as occupy a position of im¬ 
portance in the regulation of water flow 
and of other climatic conditions, and em¬ 
phasizes the importance of the relations 
which the forests bear to the problem of ir¬ 
rigation in the arid lands and on their im¬ 
mense annual product. The Secretary 
recommends the setting apart of some 300 
acres of the Arlington estate for the use of 
the Department for the testing of new va¬ 
rieties of fruits and other important experi¬ 
mental work at present impossible owing 
to lack of room. 
The Secretary announces some changes 
in the manner of purchasing seeds, and his 
determination closely to observe the pro¬ 
ducts of other countries in order that the 
seeds of such as are found to possess singu¬ 
lar excellence may be secured and experi¬ 
mented with in this country. The employ¬ 
ment of a competent expert is also contem¬ 
plated, one who can efficiently perform the 
inspection and nomenclature of cereals. A 
supply of five varieties of Mediterranean 
wheat and also of Bermuda Grass seed has 
been ordered from Europe, the latter being 
specially designed for the Southern States. 
The library is reported to be very defic¬ 
ient, both in material and arrangement. 
The museum is being rapidly extended. 
The importance of having a standard for 
the naming of new varieties is enforced. A 
gratifying report is given of the excellence 
of American agricultural products at the 
Paris Exposition. 
The subject of agricultural organizations 
is dwelt upon earnestly, their astonishing 
growth during the past few years being 
cited as strong evidence of the growth of 
the spirit of self-help among the farmers. 
The farmers’ institutes are referred to par¬ 
ticularly as one of the greatest movements 
in the history of agriculture, and as the 
strongest lever for raising and upholding 
the work of superior agricult ural education 
represented by our system of agricultural 
colleges and experiment stations. The 
Secretary recommends, without going into 
details, that the Department should be 
empowered to afford aid and encourage¬ 
ment to this work. 
In referring to the work of the Bureau 
IttissceUanmtsi gUvevtising. 
I had tried best physicians 
and numerous medicines with¬ 
out relief for a severe lung 
affection, but a fetv bottles of 
Seth Arnold's Cough Killer 
SET ME ALL RIGHT. 
Many of my friends have used 
it, and, like myself, consider it 
the best cough remedy ever 
discovered. M. D. Stration, 
Watertown. N. Y. 25c. 50c. 
anil SI. All Dealers sell it. 
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of Animal Industry, pleuro-pneumonia 
naturally is first noticed, the situation be¬ 
ing regarded as most encouraging. This 
disease is now said to be effectually under 
control and restricted to Kings and Queens 
Counties in New York State, to New Jer¬ 
sey, and a limited section in each of the 
States of Pennsylvania and Maryland. A 
careful review of the field, together with 
the arrangements made for the supervision 
of the limited districts still infected, jus- 
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tify, in the Secretary’s opinion, “ the most 
sanguine hopes ” in regard to the proxi¬ 
mate complete eradication of the disease. 
Texas fever, says the report, is generally 
spread through the channels of interstate 
commerce, and therefore can only be ef¬ 
fectually controlled by the Federal govern¬ 
ment, hence the necessity of legislation 
which shall be ample and clearly defined. 
The language used by the Secretary in re¬ 
gard to a national meat inspection law is 
pointed and vigorous. The necessity for 
inspection at the time of slaughter is, first, 
to enable the authorities promptly to locate 
any cattle disease centers, and, secondly, to 
avoid the anomaly of leaving the insjiection 
of our own meat products to the officials of 
other countries, thus giving foreign gov¬ 
ernments some show of reason for the claim 
that they have better opportunities for 
learning of disease among American cattle 
than are enjoyed by our own government. 
He accordingly advocates “such an amend¬ 
ment to the law under which the bureau 
is at present organized as will provide for 
such official national inspection as shall 
guarantee the fitness of our meat products 
for food consumption under the seal of the 
I’nited States government.” Authority 
and means are also desired to enable the 
Department to exercise a close supervision 
of the economic side of the cattle markets, 
the characteristics of stock commanding 
the highest price, variations as to age, 
weight and quality, and all facts bearing 
upon the cattle industry which will enable 
the bureau to supply to farmers such in¬ 
formation as it is impossible for them to 
obtain for themselves. 
The dairy interest comes in for an earnest 
share of attention, and the intention is an¬ 
nounced to establish a special division in 
the Bureau of Auimal Industry devoted ex¬ 
clusively to the service of this great inter¬ 
est. 
Poultry is made the subject of a special 
paragraph, and the Secretary declares it to 
be his intention that it shall receive more 
attention. 
The sheep industry secures special consid¬ 
eration in the report. The growth of the 
mutton interest is referred to as one greatly 
to be encouraged. As to wool-growing, the 
reduction of the tariff in 18S3 is earnestly 
deplored.- To it is attributed the great re¬ 
duction in the number of sheep, which has 
a'nce then fallen off by about 7,000,000 
head, while the importation of wool has in¬ 
creased from 78,850,05L pounds in 1884 to 
120,487,720 pounds the past year. “ On be¬ 
half of this industry,” says the Secretary, 
“ I recommend these facts to you, and 
should they be submitted to Congress I ask 
for them intelligent and careful considera¬ 
tion.” 
In conclusion the i-eport submits figures 
showing the importance of agriculture, 
which produces an annual yield of nearly 
<4,000,000,000, employing on the 5,000,000 
farms 10,000,000 persons, representing 
a population of 30,000,000 people, while 
the value of live stock alone is estimated 
at <2,507,000,000. That agriculture under¬ 
lies all other industries, it alone making 
our vast commerce possible and rendering 
the product of our mines valuable, assigns 
to it the first place in considering the 
well-being and prosperity of the country. 
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