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Show U. S." GROWING POORER "T'-IJB ' AS EUROPE GROWS RppESViM Alarm Felt at Failure of American Farnn to IncrefjKi'Yields-' - vrft-ISH May Soon be Forced to Import Foods Intensive arming rfitfSH tho Remedy is Easy to Practice, Says Authority- " v f -XMH tV T 1 mr9m NEW YORK, OcL 2S. That the i Jnitcd States for years has been growing poorer while its European industrial competitors were growing richer insofar inso-far as ultimate resources the productivity pro-ductivity of the soil is concerned, is the startling opinion rendered here by expert authorities notwithstanding the fact that die largest crops in the history of the country have just been harvested. So great is the danger threatening the position of the United States as a food Sroduccr considered that a movement as been started which is being participated par-ticipated in by handlers and users of gram, railway officials and bankers as well as by agricultural experts and practical farmers to increase the agricultural agri-cultural output of the nation by the adoption of better cultural methods, i "The great menace to the future development de-velopment of American agriculture," said E. Pfarrius, a large dealer and expert of the New York Produce Exchange Ex-change who is one of the leaders in the movement for agricultural conservation, conser-vation, in an interview to-day, "is that vast numbers to seek homV$ jn .olhcr tlHlib lands. To-day the Germa,prddu,cerSw -1'H arc well-to-do and happy md immigra- y'$mm tion has stopped. It is evidcilt.rptore t " vsmmWM tint Germany can teach usl-somctiiing' H about the better utilization orourJfarm- v ." jwMMw ing lands." fl,"J . 'J In this connection a reporf just published in Washington asL'COngres- Jl sional document is illuminating. It gives imMm the comparative yields uno 'values of -1 American and German crrtps ol five c " J$Mmmn staples for the car 1907, th4j latest for "- 4 which comparative figures are available. mMmm This shows that Germany planted- to "H these crops 42776,000 acrci' while the H United States had 25,540,000 .acre's in jfll the same crop?, or nearly twcc as much. L M The cash value of the Gernvnjicld, due j.. SmMU to the higher production frpm. each acre, JW'.mmm was S1.810.S78.0GO while jhe. amount - t-Vim received for the Amcrica4'crop was . lf; S1.193,O95.OO0. In other Itvords' the IjH Germans received 0 perfecnt. , mqre H than did the fanners of.ufie United J btatcs from practically half.fi'hc'numbcn. T? of acres in identically tlic"sam crops f'H Germain Lesson fort.he AmoAHfmTo JjmLM Kant kul uvc -7t&r& -" " ,MmWMmWMmWM -i mmmmmmmmmmM , cor c. a m U574 3WA hALLLLW lj810.878.000fS' 7 HIS8.005.Q0a : ul4fH Ik ii) li wf I w I IJMuuuuummmM for fifty years we have fallowed a method of systematic soil robbery in our farming operations. The same crops have been taken from the same ground year after year in many parts of die country. As a result the soil, despoiled of certain of its clement essential to the production of these special crops, has begun to show the strain in decreased de-creased yields. It is only within the past few years that this tendency has begun to show its real dangers. Prior to that tunc new areas were continually being brought under cultivation. With most of our new land gone it is time to improve our methods it we are to avoid the fate of becomiqg soon a large importer of foodstuffs to feed our own people. "while wthc prices of farm products have advanced steadily for the past fifteen years md the total value of our crops has increased more than one-half, the average yield per acre has practically stood still and in some sections actually has gone down hill. In every country of Western Europe thc accrajje yield Jia3 been growing steadily during this period. We get fourteen bushels of wheat to the acre; in some sections as low as nine bushels- England gets 32 bushels. Germany 2S and Holland 34. Our wheat exports arc fallimj off rapidly. We actually, import rye. ilaxsecd and even oats and potatoes in bad years, and we have come within half a cent a bushel of importing wheat itielf "The significant and encouraging fact for Americans in the present situation is that the very European countries which 'are now producing two bushcta to our one have passed through the raiuc condition condi-tion in which we now find ourselves. They have let their soils deteriorate 'and have seen their yields fall off as ,ours have Thirty or forty years ago some of these countries were getting Ivory little more rrain to the acre than we arc now. They have overcome all that by modern methods and have 'brought their soils up to a high state of productivity. The task before u-s is to take up these methods and apply them to our own case. Formerlv the United States caponed considerable quantities of rye. Widiin the past two years avc "have imported rye from Germany. Forty yrars ago Germany could not feed ats own people. They were leaving in ... ,-..T.m.r U.-TV- the American fa.H to as mudi as thH en-Ti acre their returns 4H 274.920,000 or more tl to more strildiH aluc modernH rotatH of CdH report explanation due to the ficldH to sug?r beets wheiH sugar beets jl one in H sugar districts crops arl the fieldsjl to sugar beets one 'ear crojH exceeds uvaH exceeds byH the rH nH in nor docs it rcqiftH fL knowledge or continuousl application. As in EuH means that enc three to ' are .'! rti1i'CfJ, plowctH j Jgar bt-i'ts or oth H cro);s. .-,? Jioed tof utc the 'he roots and jH weeds. Durirj: rcimainmcf harvest gathered, the iame as. United States. Any farmer can PiH tntrjsive fanning and all farmers " do ' if they but knewjtlic wcalttH woiii-J brine them. Aside' the l)tr)t the culbjre of sugv peets inlprovTH tJ-'e soil more than docs jhe calf lire of HH (.'r.ir root crops, they axe the mcfet H profitable crop the famferi1 can grow H while a root crop growjjfof stock- feeding purposes is tlic leastprofitablc H in the rotation." Ti"' With an area of neaJvOO.OOO.OCO T-f acres adapted to the growiug; of silir x 'H bcct; and with a demandtforsttgur -that .. -1 makes the United State? ,by far.' the il Ijl Unrest market in the world fort this l JimmmmM pfAduct, ovr $lCO,O00.O00yisycar.)cing , J 'jWMm sent to foreign countricstpay forugar ' j H imported, it is evident that, one of the ' H most practirfolt and profitable miSms of ' I H increasing trt yicld of'oUicr foodstuffs H would be by cvtendingW? areacvoted J to sugar beet cultivatiw , to which all w H but a very few states inthe Union are 7 H well suited. A jH |