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(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 15.—Secretary
Houston’s annual report places an es
timate of $9,873,000,000 on the value
of American farm crops and animal
products for last year, a valuation
.without precedent. This, however,
probably will be eclipsed by the pres
ent year’s showing.
This valuation is an increase of
about $83,000,000 over the value of
1913, hitherto the highest ever re
corded. The increase occurred in the
face of a decline in cotton from 12.5
cents apound for the 1913 crop to an
average of 7.3 cents for 1914. The
total value of the 1913 cotton crop, es
timated at $846,000,000, was $283,000,-
000 more than the 1914 crop, although
the latter was fourteen per cent great
er in quantity.
Of the tremendous flood of exports
which began near the end of the fiscal
year covered by the secretary’s re
port, many hundreds of millions repre
sent farm products.
“Betweeen August 1, 1914, and Feb
ruary 1, 1915,” the report says, “ex
ports were $1,157,000,000 and imports
$77’.000,000, giving a favorable bal
ance of $386,000,000. Of the total val
ue of exports, $662,000,000 represented
agricultural and only $495,000,000 non-
agricultural commodities, chiefly man
ufactuies.
“The total agricultural exports in
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915,
practically the first year of the war,
were $1,470,000,000, which is an in
crease of $356,000,000, or 32 per cent
over those of the preceding year and
of $433,000,000, or nearly 42 per cent
over the average of the five years
1910-1914.”
What is needed more, perhaps, than
anything else, the secretary says, is
an increase in meat animals. To that
end, the department has extended its
activities as far as its funds would
permit.. Elimination of common live
stock diseases, from which losses are
said to be enormous, would result in
a material increase of the meat sup
ply.
“It has been conservatively estima
ted,” the report continues, “on the
basis of data for thirty years, that the
annua, direct losses from animal dis
eases are approximately $212,000,000.
The indirect losses, which also are
great, cannot be estimated at all. The
direct loss ascribed to each disease is
as follows:
“Hog cholera, $75,000,000; Texas
fever and cattle ticks, $40,000,000;
tuberculosis, $25,000,000; contagious
abortion, $20,000,000; blackleg, $6,000,-
000; anthrax, $1,500,000; scabies of
sheep and cattle, $4,600,000; glanders,
$5,000,000; other livestock diseases,
$22,000,000; parasites, $5,000,000;
poultry diseases, $8,760,000.”
The citrus fruit industry of the
States, the report asserts, is serious
ly threatened by citrus canker,
highly infectious bacterial disease.
While the greater number of infected
centers in Texas, Mississippi and Ala
gama have been eliminated, complete
eradication of the disease from Louis
iana and Florida, the department be
lieves, will require large expenditures
for at least two years.
Th« potash situation, the report
states, continues serious. There is
practically no potash available for
fertilizer and Indications are that the
supply for that purpose will not be
increased materially next year.
Recommendations for legislation
made by Secretary Houston to con
gress include the following:
Legislation (designed to promote
better handling and storage of farm
products and trading on the basis of
fixed grades and standards, including
permissive warehouse act, a cotton
standard act, a grain grades act, and
provision for a market-news service.
A land-mortgage banking act intend
ed to inject business methods into
handling farm finance and to place
farm securities upon 'the market in a
responsible way.
Assistance to communities near the
national forests in-road building and
similar improvements through-a plan
involving the advancement of funds
for these purposes to be charged
against the state’s future share of re
ceipts from the forests.
Authority to grant water-power per
mits within the National Forests for
fixed periods.
More effective control over the pro
duction of hog-cholera serum. A plan
involving the establishment by the
federal government of a station for
testing all serum intended for ship
ment in interstate commerce, is out
lined.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 15.—Ehrly en
largement of the membership of the
Interstate Commerce Comission, with
statutory power to act through sub
divisions, and “appropriate adequate”
legislation for control over railway
capitalization were aong the import
ant recommendations made fo con
gress in the commission’s annual re
port.
The commission suggested that it
should have express authority of law
to have access to the letter files of
carriers; that the use of steel cars in
passenger trains' be required and that.
the use in passenger trains of wooden
cars between or in front of steel cars
be prohibited. It was recommended
that the minimum penalty for viola
tions of the hours of service act be
fixed at a fine of $100 and that pro
vision Ibe made that all actions re
lating to transportation charges
should be brought within three years.
For the fiscal year which ended
June 30, last, the commission spent
$3 933.925 including $2,13:1,925 for
physical valuation work. Its esti
mates for the year which begins July
1, next, already have been submitted
to congress.
The report is largely devoted to
presenting the commission s work for
the year, under physical valuation
work it reports that since June there
have been 12 roadway and track par
ties in the field in each of five dis- j
tricts into which the country has been
divided and that their total average |
has been about 4,000 miles per month.
By January 1, the report says sur
veys of nearly 50,000 miles of railroad
will virtually be completed. The to
tal railroad mileage of the country is
put at 250,000 and the report says that
the 200,000 miles left at the begin
ning of the year should be surveyed
in the four following years under the
present arrangement.
“It is doubtful,” it adds, “If under
the present organization, work can he
now proceeding.”
The report states that the survey
of 7,500 miles of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific -will
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by January 1, with the exception of a
few hundred miles in the south. Sur
veys of the Boston & Maine also will
be completed this year. Before ap
plying the test of actual cost to roads,
however, tne report declare® that
much more information must be ob
tained and has determined to deter
the application cf prices and the final
statement in dollars of the cost of
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“It should be noted,” explains the
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work, since as soon as the application
of prices can be properly begun, the
work can 'be speedily brought up.
The commission expresses gratifi
cation at the decrease in the number
of collisions :but says that individual
instances of unsafe operating meth
ods and violation of rules “are still
too numerous.” It sugeets a standard
ization of operating rules to assure
safety of railway travel, to be obtain
ed through federal 'legislation: It
shows that derailments hqve been on
the increase and that in 19J6 there
were 3,538 collisions and 6,849 derail
ments, compared with 5,042 collisions
and 3,633 derailments in 1902.
“Track conditions which are un
safe for the operation of trains at the
rate of speed permitted are too com
mon,” says the report. “In several
of the derailments investigated the
track conditions were found to -be so
bad as to he actually unsafe for the
passage of trains even at moderate
speed, yet no special speed restric
tions were in force, and it waB com
mon practice for trains to be operated
at unsafe speedy over such track.'
The commission suggests the need
of definite information as to the physi
cal properties of wheels, rails and
other materials used in track and
equipment and the strains and stress
es they are required to sustain in
service. Derailments caused by ma
licious tampering with track or
switches are reported -to be on the
increase and present a problem diffi
cult to solve, better policing of tracks
and a rigid enforcement of trespass
laws being suggested as remedies.
Tip to June 30 plans for 418 auto
matic train control devices had been
.presented to the commission for ex
amination of which 342 had been ex
amined and 251 found impracticable
and crude and 25 found possessed of
meritorious features but required fur
ther development before being en
titled to serious consideration. The
block system of operation Is declared
to have proven its superiority over
any other.
The report contains a report of the
important court decisions affecting
findings of the commission.
A called communication of Mount
Vernon Dodge No. 22, F. & A. M.', will
be held at their hall, third floor Max
Joseph building, this (Thursday)
evening, Dec. 16th, 1915, at eight
oclock. Work in the Fellow Craft de
gree. All qualified brethren frater
nally invited. By order of:
J. H. M’KINNON, W. M.
JNO. G. QUINN, Secretary.
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Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15.—Forecast till
p. m. Thursday:
Athens and vicinity: Rain tonight
and Thursday.
Georgia: Cloudy and warmer, with
probably rain Thursday.
• A storm of considerable force is
central this morning over Colorado
with the atmospheric pressure below
29.5 inches. Cloudy, threatening
weather prevails over practically all
portions of the United States, with
rain in the southern states as far east
as Alabama and snow in northern sec
tions, as well as over the wetera part
of the country as far south as Duran
go and Modena.
'Rain is indicated for Athens this
afternoon, tonight and probably
Thursday, with somewhat higher tem
peratures.
The temperature has generally
i risen over the south, and is low only
over the New England district, the
Lake region and northwest, but no
temperatures bellow zero are report
ed. The lowest 7 a. m. temperature
was 8 degrees at Winnipeg and Cal
gary, Canada;, in the United States,
14 at Duluth.
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from temperatures as follows: North
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30 degrees to 35 degrees; western cot
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