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Show Cultivation, The follow liic Item nppcared Intely In n, newspaper, nnd nllhouKh lt nilhht not nttrntt lnuih attention nt llrHt slsbt, yet It Is worthy of tonsldeiallon. 'In llussla llo ineinre acre uf land, becnuso nf bad tulllvallon, produces but ime-llfth or the nnmuiit Krown on nn aero In Aineilin. This K the onitlal statement of bet minister nr flnince" Allowing that soil uud clluiato wuc ullko favoiable, the dlffeiente between Kool and bid tulllvnllon appears to be reinaikablo, txhlblllnt; In l""-1' tonvlntliig manner the londlllnn of n nrtlon so eieiit In extent us Itussl i so fill behind lu InUlllRcnre and adapta lion of means tn ends that Is, a piopu uiiderBtniidlmr of tho Millie ot good fill inlnR-linplemnts nnd theli pioperuse In the piodtictlon of niaxlinutii tiups Clf touise tin mi tho Is pursued In the rulsliiK of irops In Itusslu and the Im ilctniJilM and tools unplujed for thy purpose nre of the pilinltlve k nil nnd III ndapied to the puiosi jet In sonio parti of Unit mini lounlr) this should not be Mm case, fni It U evident that iiBrlcultutal innchlnci) and linpiovi'l fni inline Implements Into fni a ron-sldei ron-sldei iblo time been tx oited from this touulry lo tint , . , , . . , In jents past some valuable kinds of Kiuln putlnilurl) nf wlHivt. weie bioughl fiom that tnuntrj to lis 1 lie older ueneintlnn of fanners will lemem her tliut nt one time tho rdbeilnn nnd lllack sea wheat weie both ipilte IniEC-ly IniEC-ly srown In this c -lr), parllcul uly lu New ntiglnnd, i 1on"1l''el'j' excellent vnrlelles "II ami rll- irbnps nil ni ' "f """ V!1 flourlsli In Hint couu. y, yet the trouble Is not so inuth In that direction a? lu the ndopllon nf modern and Intelligent mellmils nf ui"-tlon In tlilr prodiic V should be woiro off wllh such manuseinent than uie the people of llUMln Hut ll would bnrdl) fern that an) coilMil i ould prosper or ndeeil exist tintei tueh conditions and the could not unless Inuied to privation nnd haidsblp This Hem roiitnlus n wonderful com iilinic.nl foi Miierlcun Intel) eine In-dilsto In-dilsto and I ho udaptntlm if means lo t-ndu. Nn countrj In Die worll pos (cesses the advaiitaKCS nf the fnini.iis of the nulled Mates In Incut rm, soil and illnuite, ns will nn Ilu MH " Mlt frniu niid list (he best nf Implements und mm Idii' necessuj for Ihomnnnm leal piuducllon of Inme cto of Ihe vaVlolis kind" that will ht ubsrvc our wants And still with nil nf uur resources and advantages we have not yet to sny meat xtent iu ceede I In MM..'01"m lif-mllnK the wonderful os slblPU s oi t , t ii in nint of pio ' cluciion whm rlchl!) maiuiReil Jluili his beui aihlevel in this dlrietiun but the e li )et much to b baintl 1.118 nnd und b tier lultlvullon would b fnr nhead nf tin lommun oi half-w i) mnniitr of doing thlnss Our rarmers lompicheniilnir lbelr nrivnn-tages nrivnn-tages In so man) was ivei a bin,e portion at lenst of the nations or the world, should be uuouiated to slllt Rrtater cffoits In llieli work Ae me Just well staried lu the rate of Improvement Im-provement nnd there Is no reason wh) wc should not coiitliui to make marked mark-ed proriess and milntaln our suprem-ac) suprem-ac) ns the Rrentest ntid must advanced aRricultural couiilr) lu the world K It ronlo In lloeky .Mountain llusbund-man. New Crops. On most fninis In the north the number num-ber nf plants grown covers u brief list On those piodueliiR gialn wc inn usually usu-ally enumerate the list on the llnmin on one hnnd The maize plant his lei nnd will alwn)s stan 1 foremost In the upper Mississippi valle) fnr no othei fuim plant tan rival this tropical wonder. won-der. Wbeie torn ci i bo suictsfull) Rtown let the funnel devote Ills best ene-glei to the Improvement of this crop, counting all other rffoits as sec-ondar). sec-ondar). Alons the northwestern rim of the torn belt and h)nnd there are ci op caulldaten which should be care-fully care-fully consldeied In the north oils, hailc) and pas more or lera lomplete-1) lomplete-1) supplint Indian mm ns gialn producers, pro-ducers, the Held pea. rich In protein Is ft special favorite wllh Die il.ilr) mnn and lh-" bicon pioluter In Ihe Northwest North-west n candidate of conMdeiable Im porlance Is spelt or spell- In Kdieinl sp Is resembles birley forming a head Ilk th it main with Ihe husks or Rlumes adhering clowl) to the grain the siime as do the hulls In the harle) head Spelz seems to lloumh an 1 )leld profitable crops In districts where the rninfall Is too scant for aatlsfattoi) crops ot baile) or onts There are. therefore, dlrtrlits In Ihe Dakotaa nnd Nebraska wheie spelz should be tare-fully tare-fully tested several forms of millet have been grown In the United Htntes to some extent for hnv production In the old world espeilill) Asln the millet plant Is of prime Impottnncc Tens of mil lions of human beings use millet seed for Ihelr dall) bread ns we use the wheat grain Until now millet seed has been nlmost neglected ns a fnrm grain In this couiilr), lleinrts drift Into this olllce fiom various sources le- ii'illin; inoni luiorioi) ill jniliei ispcil- nlly to the Mherlan varlct) bb furnishing furnish-ing grain of high value fnr nourishing faim stock, rluch reports ure cntlrel) credible nnd farmers nre- well warranted war-ranted In undertaking experiments wllh certain mllleto ns grain producers The) will provp most useful on the nutii rim of the torn belt, where they do not tome Into Competition wllh corn nt lis best. We can not hope that nny form of millet will equal corn where corn tan be successfully grown, but there Is Utile doubt that In this great countr) huge dlsltlttn will be found where millet culture will In some mens, uro tako the place nf efforts at coin glowing All of Ihe millets are glasses and i!(iolj allltd lo mnlze, wheat and the other common eeicals The grain portion of the millet plant does not dlf-fei dlf-fei niHlerlnll) from Indian torn In cnmposltlun nnd can bo used ns a substitute sub-stitute for torn, grinding nlwiijs being essential on account of the hnrd coat-lug coat-lug which coins the small seeds, Knllr corn and Iteyptlnn eotu ate varieties va-rieties of soighum which have rapidly imido their wn during the lay few )ears In the seml-nrld regions Vest-ward Vest-ward and sou Hi vv nnl of the corn belt, nnd Indeed Ihci pla.ita ionic In mm-pilltlon mm-pilltlon with corn as a great fon 1 pro-ducei pro-ducei In regloni where ioiii vlilds sat-Isfai sat-Isfai tor) crops. The two leguminous candidates now altra-llng much ntten-llnn ntten-llnn nre the tow pea and the soy beun, Ixit'i he iv) nioluiers of nltiogenus food While both plants me seml-lrop-lent In rharncfr, their cultivation Is biltg rapldl) pushed northwild through the selection of seed from Individual In-dividual flams which show earl) lip-tnlng lip-tnlng pioillvltles Uteders' Gazette. |
