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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN January 29, 1914 EXTEND POTATO EMBARGO Congressman E.E. Browne Spoke For Farmers at Hearing Before Secretary of Agriculture At the hearing before the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington Thursday, Dec. 18, Congressman E.E. Browne, representing this the Eighth Congressional district, spoke against raising the quarantine and urged that the interests of the potato producers of the United States be protected against he importation of diseased potatoes from European countries. He read telegrams from farmers and shippers who are trying to keep their fields and potato stock immune from disease. One of these was from C.N. Christensen of this city who protested against the importation of new and dangerous diseases from foreign countries. On December 24th, after our last week’s issue had been printed and mailed we received the following telegram from Congressman Browne, which will be welcome news to all potato producers and shippers of Wisconsin. This ruling of the Secretary of Agriculture will prevent the dumping of diseased stock at the port of New York and other coast cities which had reached such proportions as to gravely threaten the potato industry of this country by the infection of our fields with diseases that are causing no end of trouble in several countries of continental Europe and adjacent islands. This telegram from Congressman Browne was a welcome Christmas present: Telegram From Cong. Browne. “Washington, D.C., Dec. 24, 1913, D.F. Burnham, Waupaca, Wis. Secretary of Agriculture decides that potato disease exists in Canada, Newfoundland, Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Great Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe and forbids importation of potatoes into the United States from those countries until the Secretary shall ascertain that the disease is eradicated. - Edward E. Browne.” |