Show POINTS FOR SUCCESS Sunshine and Nitrogen Are Two Great Essentials Plowing Under of Turf Mixed In With Little Irrigation Farmer Never Neve Ni-ed Ni Fear Failure i f Increase Fertility Tho rhe farmer Carmer man or boy must be constantly reminded of ot the value of ot crop rotation live lIvo stock grazing yard barnyard muck good seed and deep tillage or he will not get along VEr very c 04 well Only the other day Burbank told me that the two great essentials In our economic existence are sun sun- shine chine and nitrogen the nitrogen one and nuu iun I Game but Interchangeably different In producing al all that the world contains con i tain s writes Eugene Eugen H. H Grubo In III the Denver Field and Farm n. n With these essentials and the plowing under the turf mixed In with a little Irrigation we will never have a crop failure We continually increase fertility and get larger yields just as do the farmers farm ers of or Great Britain It Is a deplorable fact that the American farmer fanner Is producing under r th the most f favorable conditions only third one of the crops which the Eu farmer is raising under ex extremely EX trem ly bad conditions Another significant sig i fact Is that the fertility and productivity of the European farm Is gradually Increasing while that of the average United States farm Is decreasing deEr de de- Er creasing in about the same Inverse ratio This is true despite the fact that the farms of Europe have been worked for 2000 years The corn area arro of tho United Sta States s 1 IP practically i cally developed There ar are no n new w except In Argentina where we ii can look for tor Increased production of corn oom for human food or the making of Dr m meats ats t f The only solution of the of f Securing cheaper prices priceD for Cor the food n of the people of this nation Is to 1 d double uble or treble the acre yield The J capabilities of the soil soli are treble If not quadruple what the land Is now b being made to show We cannot too oon adopt the methods and 1 pies les of European agriculture The stinginess of the United States gov gov- I eminent In appropriating a measly a ye year r for the furtherance of the great cause of a agriculture Is Is almost Inconceivable Practically the J entire wealth of the c country is created creat creat- ed by the farmer and the miner Out r L of l the earth comes wealth In nearly if all Its s forms Corms The value of the iia- iia a- a crops approaches I ti annually and this amount can can be trebled If the farmer Is Is' given the proper knowl knowledge dge of at scientific meth meth- t ds The prosperity which will en- en v exception The appropriation by the government govern ment for agricultural purposes should be one cent less than very every year ear It t would be Incomparably ably the best Investment nt that congress con con- gress r ss could make One of the most valuable factors for tor the education of ot th the farmer along right lines is the ag college yet ret this Institution l IB giving the farmer CarmEr of at c the nation only half We are today misapplying the revenues from the Morrill ac act The bill enacted in ral f tho AUt was most WIse In Its Conception It provided ample funds tor tal the fhe education of the masses along Pl agricultural and mechanical lines but f t are not getting It It If the wise pro pro- visions ot that act were carried out I particularly the one requiring that hat b each and EVer every student shall work IJ not lest less than two nor more than four t hoara nourR a day ut at manual labor In the or shop our free agricultural Schools would not be overcrowded by to t tn ll and women seeking university i i professions to the exclusion of many Nho are earnest In their desire to e conquer soil problems t tl the student is pursuing a l literary course exclusively In the agricultural et where he does not belong he would soon seek other sources of cul- cul ture Only by a combination of or the technical study of the class room and Ind the practical work of the field the tanner Earner student can be educated up to the Ithe fullness of his capacity to get the from the feed lot and the soil Another regrettable fact of our ns and conditions is the loss of the apprenticeship system In our trades We arc now compelled to rely tely upon the mechanics that come 7 bum Europe to do our work If the agricultural colleges would live Jive up to the requirements of the act r we would give the American boy boyan an opportunity to acquire a mechanical education on |