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Show Wilson Speaks to Farmers Secietary of Agriculture Wilson was the guest of honor at the Stake county fair toda. Vbrilelivercd au address - I read from lltfjplatfiirin telegram ol rogret trom President McKlnley. who bad intended to be at the fair. In his remarks. Secretary Wilt-on dwelt to some extent on the necesritj fpr tuL'ccssful farmora today learning oj the soil in all its lelattuns, its antecedents, anteced-ents, Ub eompoiiitloii, its adaptability and i)0oibiliiieB as shown by exp. n-numlH n-numlH which haw Ulwii cundnctid oy soii'htlln' me.. llufiuil: "While Mt told 7 Vl,81l.7;i:i wuili. ill doiucmio produuts fium tlio United sullen in IBM), we bought 55,0 14, Ml worth of agrieiiltuint pioducts. It lb intoreaiing to know what we p.ty ihie largo sum of money for, hiuI it invitii our thoughtful attention to the pioduc-tion pioduc-tion of such ihlna witliln our own holders hol-ders in the tuture to as feriut extent an possible. 'Wo paid JD-i.OO'J.OOO lor sugar $1)5,-000,000 $1)5,-000,000 for coffee, $41,000,000 for hides aid skins, 2,000,OUO fur silk, $25,0)0,-000 $25,0)0,-000 for fibers, $18,000,000 for fruit and nuts, $10,000,000 for tob.isco, $10,000,000 or lea, and $8,000,000 for wool, which, however, is only half as much wool as wo bought in 180S. Several of theso things wo can produco in tho United States. Some of thorn we cannot oil account of climatic prohibition. "With rosaid to meat. producing animals, ani-mals, tho prices nro higher, and will continue higher because the people of the Missouri liver who grr.zeil their stock en tho rangn country have been destroying tho grasses so systematically that they alo not able, in many of the States now to mantaiu auore than 50 per cent of the meat-producing animals found thero a few yours ago. Tho meats of the country in the futuro must be produced on tho farms," Secretary Wilson roferred to tho new markets being opened up to tarmers of the United States, and said: "The United States buys $200,000,000 worth of tropical products annually. It will be our policy in tho future to educate the brown men of our island possessions tu produce this vast uuimount of rao-teiiul. rao-teiiul. rhe receipt of this amount of money will onahlo tham to set better tables, clothe themselvcH better, live in batter housoa and do moro for education." educa-tion." The secretary declared, in closing, that agriculture flourishes best when the factory flijriihes best, and added "It is the furiner'o privilege to so shape ))iulva that the sphere in which we ell will widen a our requirements do-uiand." do-uiand." -. it . |
