OCR Text |
Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS TALK IS or THE FARM. Cincinnati Enquirer: "Ths last tws years hsvs shown us clearly ths necessity or inia Bouillons! force of agricultural smducers snd the danger to our Industries, Indus-tries, to all our great enterprises, to our national progreaa and prosperity If permanent relief from abnorensj nigh r rices of food products Is not attained, t Is more farmers sod mors farm laborers la-borers that are now needed to keep up the ratio of production with that, of the steadily Increasing population of our cities cit-ies and .towns." . . f Atlsnta Journal: "Ws hear much tods to-ds y of captaJne of Industry. Tomorrow Tomor-row we shell bear more of the captains ef agriculture. The eame eyatera and watchful management that le applied le great corporatlona la com Ins to be applied! ap-plied! to the farm. The owner of a factory fac-tory la continually on the lookout for Improved maohlnery. for the leteat discoveries dis-coveries la - chemistry and electricity. And likewise the farmer will study more and more deeply the bus In eaa aide of his occapalasa and Ita ecleatlfle side." Memphis Commercial-Anneal: "The A merit an people muat send one-half their number beck to the farma or within the nest half century we will here famlnee every time we have a poor eeaeon. Whea these people go beck to the farm they must hsvs s knowledge of what they are doing, Ws'vs ot to put knowledge behind the plow aa well aa ta the brains of the msa who presides In our law courts or alts at the aide of the alcfc snd dying." Penvsr Republican: There le In Mlseourl, aa In many other states, lack of close cult tvat Ion, which would reeult In larger ytelda and greater returns to the farmers. Meaeured by Kumpean stsndarde. respecting density of population. popu-lation. Mieanurl could support without difficulty four or five tlmee lis present populalloa." Rncheeter Iiemocrat and Chronicle: "There Is a certain dsfmtts charm In Jis Idea of Irrigation, and It haa heretofore here-tofore heea eeeoclated with the esml-ertd esml-ertd but extremely rich lands of the far weet. It now transpires that the ferme of the stste of New York, through modern methods of Irrigation by cheap electric power, sfford epfcor-tiinltles epfcor-tiinltles for a qutck..and profitable .market, .mar-ket, not enjoyed except In tha most favored regions of ths west Minneapolis ajournal: "Ths supply of food muat betneceaaed to meet . the wanta ef the Increealng mouths To ao-eompllab ao-eompllab that, however, la a psyche loglal aa well as material problem. Coat of high living will have to be eliminated. elim-inated. . live of city life will have to be cured Perhane Immigration will have eoureged." Kaneaa city Star: "The .doctrine ef beak to the soil" eaa be talked to the men until the tethers srs black In ' the fa, and even If many men are convinced con-vinced Bnd can get acceaa to the land, they won't go there unleaa the woman go willingly. Will tha women go, at stay if they do gor' Omaha Bee: "Intenalve farming la going go-ing to the front. It Is one of the very big enterprises the central government, ststes snd unofficial n-ssnlastlona. the. oretlcally .and practically, are pushing. |