Show INTENSIVE I FARMING r In these the days pretty much everything has been bean adulterated foodstuffs not being excepted accepted eec The Tha pure pun food law put a a stop top to many outrageous practices not Mt all aU Among AmonI other things adulterated at the tha present time tima are ara aretha the tha insecticides and fungicides fungicide used in inthe Inthe inthe the spraying of ot trees and the destruction of ot Insects tin do the form farm and In tho Cho orchard There TheN is 15 a bill bUl before Con Congress Congress gress gres to prevent further fraud in this direction which should be passed forthwith In the course of ot the tha debate on this bill billin billIn billin in the House Representative Lowden of Illinois after atter advocating the meas measure measure measure ure passed on to the subject of intensive Intensive intensive sive farming which IE is 1 impossible with without without I out pure puro and standardized insecticides and fungicides Science counts nowa nova nowadays nowadays days and it is ia to the tho small email farms and truck patches highly cultivated that must be ba depended upon If It we are to have an Increased food supply in this country in the future futura In the Dg agricultural papers much Is said about abandoned farms In the eastern states of soil solI being worn out 1 This Mr Lowden rightfully concludes is because the occupants of ot these lands persisted In clinging to the old meth methods methods methode ode and allowed the soil soU to become Im Impoverished The Illinois congressman said on this subject We hear much of abandoned farms it is said that though once productive they are now worn orn out I saw fields in Europe last autumn which were never nevermore nevermore nevermore more productive than now and which furnished food for tor the legions of Rome in the early days of ot the Caesars It is isa Isa isa a shameful confession for us to make mako mal that American lands once fruitful have been worn orn out in tn the comparative comparatively ly brief time In which they have been cultivated Such a 8 confession is eloquent of the tho ignorance we have displayed in the past palt pastin in the most ancient of ot all aU occupations i If It the methods of or farming which we I have hitherto employed be followed for I another half century the Mississippi I valley the greatest granary grana of ot the world will m also be dotted with aban abandoned abandoned farms If this bill be passed It will be a Ii long step toward the conser conservation conservation i of the soil soli the greatest of all i conservation projects That Is the real truth of the matter i I Unless the present methods are changed oven even the fertile ferine lands of ot I Egypt In southern Illinois will re refuse fuse to yield before many years Ifs the population of the country is Ii con constantly j f I growing gro the intensive farming i question becomes of great reat importance more especially since the food prices I have reached rea such u a high figure I |