Show ONE MILLION NEW FARMS An investigation of farm interests throughout the United States b by an ana a ural paper brings to light the tho theu u t n new w farms have been l 1 hd in the country durl during g the past t n years Under ordinary conditions it would seem that the farming busi r ss was being overdone Not so The Thep p of th the cities and towns is isn isn n r anti the food products raised n 11 these Ui C extra farms farina have no effect at least on prices if sales s J Hill believes that I t non ion Is outrunning production so far fars s cheat is concerned in the United and that lu in the course cours of a comparatively short tIme have to look to other countries to make up the deficit Now that the arid and an and semiarid lands of the great west west are being re reclaimed reclaimed claimed by means of irrigation a vast area is being brought under the plow and to contribute Its snare share of food for the millions in In the ci cities Again the swamp lands in the south are being drained and more rich acres added to o the agrIcultural d domain maln Ex Experiments In dry farming have established established the fact that faIrlY good crops of grain and vegetables can be raIsed without rain raid or irrigating ditches So I another farms or more may maybe maybe be opened In the United States before the next decade has passed Into his history tor tory According to the report of the secretary of agriculture the value or of Ute the products of the farm tarm In this coun country try last year wes was in excess or of Enough and to spare of every everything everything thing in the line of food With the con constantly constantly increasing number of f farms these figures should continue to grow Certainly they will never be less except In case caso of drouth or some other ca calamity cat calamity lamity t The opening ot of these new farms Is Isan isan an auspicious circumstance and the addition of millions of acres more will willbe be hailEd with delight by the dwellers In cities who are dependent upon the broad fields for th their lr dally daily supply of bread and meat The United States has not reached its zenith in agriculture agriculture ture any more than It has in the art artof ot of war or the science of good govern government mont ment Each year will add to the hap happiness happiness and prosperity of its people for generations to come contingent upon cultivating the lands now lying idle |