ITEMS OF INTEREST February 12, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

A horticulturist has been engaged by the educational authorities of the Canal Zone to give instruction in gardening in the schools for colored children. The effort for the present will be confined to cultivating vegetables that have been raised successfully in the zone. Corn, okra, cowpeas, peanuts, cucumbers, and squash have been planted, and tomatoes, pepper, lettuce, and eggplants will be started in seed-beds, and beans and radishes will be put out. Bananas and papayas will be set out about the school buildings and gardens, and small decorative plants along the fences. It is believed that the bananas and papayas can be made to yield sufficient income to pay the salary of a professional horticulturist. Two one-hour periods each week will be devoted to gardening work, and more time if proper care of the gardens makes it necessary.

Suggesting the creation of a committee on budget to determine at the beginning of each session of Congress the limit of appropriations by each committee of the House in view of the prospective revenues of the Government, Representative Douglas of Ohio insisted that only by such a method could expenditures for preparations for war be kept down in the interest of larger allowances for the advancement of agriculture. In appropriating seventy-one per cent of the revenues for warlike purposes and only two per cent for agriculture, Mr. Douglas declared Congress was not acting for the best interests of the people.

The bureau of American republics has been making special efforts to interest the manufacturers and merchants of the country in the forthcoming centennial celebration and Pan-American conference to be held at Buenos Aires, and has in its bulletin been urging from month to month those interested in South American trade to take up space and arrange for exhibits. English, French, German, Spanish, and other European manufacturers are awake to the advantages of such an opportunity, and have not only appropriated all the space allotted to them, but have been endeavoring to secure increased room for their exhibitors.

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