Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-09

Prophecies rather lugubrious are pro.
nouncod in regard to the future Of tho
food supply Of the United States. With
an addition Of 100000 year 10 orr
population in less TINA eight years. all
the additional arabic land OF tho United
States will DO used up, Then what shall
we do Tor food to eaty ask tho prophets
Of evil. There is ono answer to their
question That apparently mono Of thom
have thought Of, aud that seat less
One Of the greatest Of British physicians
said. ono. fourth OF what we eat kcopl
us; the other thrcc-iourths we keep at
risk of our lives II this estimate IA
true, thon By following the doctors sug.
gcstion we shall have with our present
supply sufficient food for three times "a
many people as we have now
But there Is another factor which Tho
prophets Of evil do not take into cousid.
Grafton that olIors far moro agreeable
solution than feeding hygionically, cat
ing quarter ~ much and living longer.
This Is intensive farming, tho producing
Of three and fonriold our present. crops
upon the same ground. French farmers
have already compasscd this result So
have those OF Great Britain, TO somo cx.
tent. We, too, must come to this alter.
native.
Tho cheerful progress We have already
made ia this direction Is alluded TO IN a
paper written by Julian Hawthorne for
Lippincotta Mr. Hawthorne sketches
slightly tho great work begun by tho
United States agricultural department.
OF one branch, tho state agricultural
experiment stations, 1t Is said;
somc " the stations are experimenting with
homemade aud commercial fcrtiliscfs: others
are seeking means " restore fertility 60 worn
out lands, othen are taking ~ tho tub
ject Of fruit, aud vineyards. others, sain,
study thu composition and storing VI foddors.
or experiment on tho feeding OF animals. on
their diseases and tho remedies therefor Ia
states Whoru much Of tho soil is arid irrigation
q given prominence Ia tho Investigations, a.
iHsugAf making Ia Louisiana and wine maxi
Ing la California. Here aud there o station
dcyotra itself mainly to poultry raising or to
tho treatment N bees.
II Is the policy u tho stations tn Institute
experiments among farmers on their own
farms, both Tor practical and Zoe educational
purposcz Thia tonds 10 make each farmer =
fresh confer " Information. Tho stations bo.
come the headquarters Of local agricultural
associations, whore the members consult with
and instruct ono another. New Jorsoy
farmer lately declared that knowledge Of the
fact that his soil lacked potash (which ho had
learned through tho noighlnrlng stationi had
been m immediate gain TO him u S5oo In
North Carolina, m Increase OF " per cent. In
the quality u commercial fortilikcm sold In
tho stale Is due 10 tho work Of the local station.
IN Wisconsin, the experiments In pig feeding
have been u extraordinary value Nov here,
In short, have tho stations failed 10 pay for
themselves hundreds u times over, either di-
rcctly or Indirectly; and Il l. significant Of tho
Fvheral recognition ~ American farmers II
the value OF tho stations, that no state which
has established u station has over abandoned
It, On the contrary, they have steadily In.
creased the pocunlsry support Afforded item,
uutil now u amounts To hundreds OF thou.
sands Of dollars