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Show POINTS FOR SUCCESS Sunshine and Nitrogen Are Two Great Essentials. Mowing Undsr of Turf, Mlxsd In With Little Irrigation, Farmer Never Naad Fsar Failure Increase Fertility. The farmer man or boy must be constantly reminded of the value of crop rotation, live stock,, grailc, barn yard muck, gtxjij seed 'rttl Jeep tillage or lie VIU xt)t fefjn(5 verT "n Only lU oUJtr (Say liurbank tiW sne that tha, ve great essentials 'U bu.? SuOheuUtf tfalsteuca are sun-shine, sun-shine, nitrogen- the pp and the fulus but iuten buiiKcatjly dlffereut lu producing all tht, '. world con-tains, con-tains, wrJLM Kughe1 H, Grubb in the Peeve? Tield and Farm. tir-essentials tir-essentials and the plowing under the turf mixed In with a little Irrigation we will never have a crop failure. We will continually Increase fertility and get larger yields, Just aa do the farmers farm-ers of Grwat Britain. It is a deplorable fact that the American farmer fa producing, under Hie moat favorable conditions, only pne-tblrd of the crops which the European Eu-ropean farmer Is raising under extremely ex-tremely bad conditions. Another significant sig-nificant fact Is that the fertility and productivity of the European farm Is iradually Increasing while that of tha average United States farm is decreasing. de-creasing. In about the same inverse ratio. This Is true, desplut the fact that th farms of Europe have been worked for 2.000 years. The corn area of the United States Is practically practi-cally developed. There are no new fields except In Argentina where we can look for Increased production of corn for human food or the making at meata. The only solution of the problem of securing cheaper prii-ea for the food of the people of thla nation Is to double or treble the acre yield. The capabilities of the soil are treble, If not quadruple, what the land Is now being made to show. We cannot too oon adopt the methods and principles princi-ples of European agriculture. The stinginess of the United States government gov-ernment In appropriating a measly $15,000,000 a year for tho furtherance of tho great cause of agriculture Is almost Inconceivable. Practically the ntlre wealth of tho country la created creat-ed by the farmer and the. miner. Out of th earth cornea wealth In nearly til ita forms. The value of tho nation's na-tion's crops approaches $9,000,000,000 annually anc? thla amount ran be trebled If the farmer la given the proper knowledge of scientific metb-oda. metb-oda. The prosperity which will ensue en-sue will reach every line of industry, without exception. The appropriation by the government govern-ment for agricultural purposes should oot be one cent less than $100,000,000 every year. !t would be Incomparably Incompar-ably the best Investment that con-tress con-tress could make. One of the most valuable factors for the education of the farmer along right lines Is the agricultural ag-ricultural college yet this institution Is giving the farmer of the nation only half measure. We are today misapplying the revenues from the Morrill act. The bill, enacted In the early sixties, was most wise In Its conception. It provided ampta funds for the education of the masses along agricultural and merhaulcal lines, but we are not getting It If the wise provisions pro-visions of that act were carried out, particularly the one requiring that each and every student shall work not less than two nor more than four hours a day at manual labor In the field or shop, our free agricultural schools would not be overcrowded by men and women seeking university professions to the exclusion of many who are earnest In their desire to conquer soil problems. If the student Is pursuing a literary course exclusively In the agricultural college, where he does not belong, he would soon seek other sources of rul ture. Only by a combination of the technical study of the class room tnd the practical work of the field (he farmer student can be educated up to the fullness of his capacity to get the most from the feed lot and the aoll. Another regrettable fact of our Institutions Insti-tutions and conditions Is the loas of the apprenticeship system In our tradea. We are now compelled to rely upon the mechanics that come from Europe to do our work. If the agricultural colleges would live up to the requirements of the Morrill act we would give the American boy an Jpportunlty to acquire a inechanlial fducation. |
