Show MH MR I IJU IX'S WORK New York Sun In the appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of DavId ld Lubin of California to membership on the permanent committee com corn of the International Institute of ot Agriculture the th President has bestowed bestowed be be- stowed stowel due recognition upon one of the pioneers of California whose services services ser ser- vices ices have been better beter appreciated abroad than at home Mr Lubin has earned the right to be classed with wih the makers of California To the early carl days of the gold rush in the high Sierras succeeded succeed cd a second era of lavish prosperity In the Californian when settlers settlors wont out va valleys I es e's new ime upon the soil soi and raised such crops as agriculture had never dreamed of oC ne The farmer ran his furrow with wih the whole townships were his wheat wheat patch he worked by steam and his grain ln was reaped into railway cars carsan carson carson on an tracks s that were latticed through gh the lie ranches It I was great and prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- and it set California at tho the head of the grain states just as Ithal it had hal at the beginning stood as tho the great golden state But it I was so rich It t was 8 so prosperous rous tha It was too great geat for tor ho sr small J man tb to share share ln It I fell fel more and more to great great combinations com coin of or capital on t the e one side and nd to unsettled an and shifting armies of improvident of-Improvident labor on tho the other Having made a In commerce Mr Ir Lubin set he before fore himself himsel the task of establishing an agriculture new to California one which should not have havethe havethe the defects of or the lie old Ho lIe le has gone upon the principle that the ranch is better for fOl the state when it is cut up into small smal farms fanus for the productive cUve homes of a settled sellEd population of ot own own- ers What he believed he ho put Into practice His Ills enthusiasm enlisted the co operation co of others other as the they saw sav sw his projects maturing to success In a dozen years he has put Californian agriculture on a an entirely new n new basis Only Incidentally to his general project project project pro pro- did he earn the thc honors which Ia Italy I paid him long before recognition camo caine to him bun at home He lie le found the floating army of ot harv harvest est st hands largely large large- ly Italian good labor and cheap labor and not objectionable to Californians as Is' Is Asiatic labor When hen the harvest had hall been made mado there was no place for tor these hands on the great ranches Their Idle time was passed In the cities cites and San Sn Francisco and Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento and other towns found new problems in Iii cal carrying this swarm swarm of Idle men over until the pero period when they were next needed In the wheat eat felds fields Mr Lubin recognized that the Italian farm hand han was b by training a farmer farmel of the small smal area area Thrifty and Industrious always looking forward to becoming a renter perhaps eventual eventually a n proprietor Not because they ere were Italian simply because they were small cul cultivators I IatO's atOs he ho opened tho the way for them to get out upon the lie soi soil each for fOl himself He lie organized a associations sc t- t ions which led letl to the formation of colonies Now Now they dot the tho valey valleys and foothills each with wih some name that recalls the country countr they have havo left leCt All Al that w was as needed was wa to put these right men upon the soil At once the they began farming farming from to fence rence pOst In place of the tho waste of or cultivation cultivation cult cult- vaton by the square mile mie agriculture In iii California turned Into Intensive farming This is s the service which the President has recognized in appointing appointing ap ap- ap pointing Mr Ir Lubin |