Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-18 | Page 4 | We Are Overlooking Little Things

WE ARE OVERLOOKING LITTLE THINGS. Millions of tons of fertilizers are imported by the farmers of the United States each year and there is Bomo uneasiness expressed over the future importation of potash which enters so largely into the enriching of our soils, but every fall, when the leaves begin to drop from the trees, nature offers a great supply of fertilizer fer-tilizer which Is made to serve no better bet-ter purpose than to fill the atmos phero with a suffocating Bmoke. Experts tell us the leaveB, if stored, would make the very best fertilizer that could be applied to lawn or garden gar-den In the spring of the year. It has been said that the people of the United States are too prosperous pros-perous to make the most of their op portunities. That is true. The little things that we ag a people overlook or neglect, would make auy European country highly prosperous. In the matter of waste (n foodstuffs alone, Wti are the most prodigal people on earth. Belgium, if giVCn that which We throw away, would be better fed than when peac reigned supreme.