. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank. ruary 13th, and served to March 6, 1889—twenty-one days —when President Harrison, having been inaugurated, ap- pointed Jeremiah M. Rusk of Wisconsin Secretary of Agri- culture. He was succeeded four years later by J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, who served during President Cleve- land's term. President McKinley, who was inaugurated March 4, 1897, appointed James Wilson of Iowa, who has served con- tinuously since that time. Secretary Wilson has proved him- s
. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank. ruary 13th, and served to March 6, 1889—twenty-one days —when President Harrison, having been inaugurated, ap- pointed Jeremiah M. Rusk of Wisconsin Secretary of Agri- culture. He was succeeded four years later by J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, who served during President Cleve- land's term. President McKinley, who was inaugurated March 4, 1897, appointed James Wilson of Iowa, who has served con- tinuously since that time. Secretary Wilson has proved him- self to be a most thorough and efficient public official. He possesses in an eminent degree high executive ability, with a thoroughly practical as well as scientific and technical knowledge of every bureau in the Department of Agricul- ture. The appropriation for the support of the Agricultural Department has averaged during the past three years over $5,000,000 per annum, and that of the present fiscal year, which commenced July ist, amounts to $6,692,690. This sum seems large, but it has and will continue to return one hundred fold in benefits to the people of our country. The Secretary of Agriculture places the estimate of the value of the farm for the year 1904—after excluding the value of farm crops fed to live stock—at $4,900,000,000; three and one-half times the value of all minerals produced in this country, including coal, iron ore, lead, copper, gold and silver. From year to year the cultivators of the soil have, aside from sustaining eighty millions of people in our own country, contributed food and raw materials for manu- facture to millions of people in foreign countries. The farmer's balance of trade has increased from year to year until in 1903 the excess of exports of farm products over the imports amounted to the enormous sum of $422,000,000. . 20 . ]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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