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Show EVERY DAY LOSSES. Ours must be a great country or it could not loae ao much. Tha Wall Street. Journal tails of a fsw losses that the farmera sustsin, smon j which are tka following: Not long ago the agricultural commissioner j of the Bock laland system published the state- ent that cornstalks msde into rnailage werej worth 60 per cant of the value of the grain, and that by wasting their a talks the farmera werej loaing $1,000,000,000 a year. Another inaUncc can be seen in the present wasteful system ofj ginning and baling cotton, together coating the planters an unneceaaary $10 a bale, which on the crop of 1912 would aggregate at least $135,000,-000. $135,000,-000. Many good farmera have their aaed plota, and cross fertilize their seed plsnts wifh the earn shown by a .breeder of race horses. But the majority ma-jority shovel their seed from the bin at planting time, sejl the Urge potatoes and plant the little lulla. Applying to the cropa of 1912 merely the difference in yield estimated by tha department depart-ment of agriculture between the use of heavy weight and light wight seed, thia would make a .lifferanca of $750,000,000. The department of africulture ia sponsor for the statement that 1,000,000 tona of tow could be saved from tha flax straw, that is now burned. In the surplus . grain states also, after thrashing the straw ia burned to get rid of it; $70,000,000 gone up in moke." We wonder what the stockmen between the Siarraa and the eastern slope of the Rockies have lost since the Comstock waa discovered in 1859 i by failing to provide shelter and a little fooo. for their stock, to tide over tha winter stonna Governor Bradley of Nevada lost 20,000 head of cattle in a single winter. A hundred mining towns have been dattroyad ", by lire aince 1649 because no precautions wort taken against fire, while many valley towns like Sacramento and Marysville have been repeatedly awept by tha flames. The farmers of Utah have spoiled thousands of acres of their beat lands by overirrigarion Thousands of dollars' worth of good food haa bean destroyed by bad eoota ' In this city hundreds of thooattnda of dollars' I worth of furniturf hs bean destroyed, and . thousands of throats sad lung inflamed by coal nmokf and no end of heat energy loat because the city ban refuted to enforce the ordinance Against the smoke nuisance, and a million dol- I lavs' worth of fruit loat because of failure to spray tba fruit trots. |