Smyrna times., 1893-07-19
Highest OF all in Leavenng Power-Lates IT, S. Govt Reno
Re-! q! Bssi9s BS%5ssy
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

HiinIsHeu CosG IN Wheat raising, namely
advance in agricultural science
brought home to the farming commun-
ity with more diligence than ever be-
fore. In this regard the State expert
ment stations have rendered valuable
service. Kansas has saved millions of
dollars through Prof. Snow of Law
renee, whe has shown the farmers of
that State how to make war on insect
maruders, and has provided weapons
for the fight. And from one end of
the country to the other, officers of
like Intelligence are bringing through
their bulletins before the farmers the
results of organized obse rvation of
new varieties, of seeding, of crop rota-
tation. AT the Minnesota stations, for
example, it has been proved that the
careful cleaning of seed and the keen
ing to single variety in the planting,
have had the effect of increasing the
yield 10 to % bushels to the acre.
while the crop has matured all at once.
an important point where quick har-
Yesting machinery is used. In diffus.
ing this kind of information the press
has powerfully seconded the enginerv
of science. In 1887 DR.. J. l.. Jensen of
Denmark discovered a preventative
for the fetid smut which had severely
plagued the American wheat farmer :
the seed wheat is immersed for ten
minutes in water at 1890 Fahrenheit. a
temperature fatal to the smut spores.
but only beneficial to the wheat.
Within a few months after DR.. Jensen's
experiments, every newspaper in the
wheat districts told their story with an
effect impossible to any Government
bulletin.
The country press, following in the
wake OF city press quite as largely
read by the farmers, is beginning in
earnest an agitation for good roads, an
agitation which will bestow upon the
farmer a gain equal to decided reduc-
ton Of his railroad rates. 1t isn't 50
much the price of wheat in New York
that concerns him as the price on his
farm and that, as far as road improve.
ment affects it, is in his own hands.
Wheat culture, despite its vicissi.
tudes, tends more and more to become
manufacture the cost of which can be
computed almost as closely as the
operations of the factory. Last wear
the wheat crop is estimated to have
been some $4,000, 900 bushels Let il
be assumed that the farmers who
raised it did nothing else, and that there
were 100000 of them. Let us further
assume that by reason of internationa
competition it is undesirable to increase
the crop, and that progress, mechani.
cal, chemical, and botanical, enables
100000 farmers to raise it. What are
the $4,000 not needed men to do,
Why, they can go to a city like Crane
Rapids and make good furniture to be
sold at half the prices of ten years ago
or at looms in New York, Yonkers, Of
Philadelphia. they can turn out car
pets of beauty at cost so low as tC
bring them within reach of every fam.
lily but the very poorest In city Oh
country; or in some other centre of in
dustry, engage in cheapening the lux
uries of the last generation until they
become the necessities of this. Be
cause machinery is steadily making the
food raisers smaller and smaller pro.
portion of mankind, the frequent talk
about the desirability of keeping th,
boys on the farm is cant. There is ne
room on the farm for all of the boys
They know what they want {: gooC
living, which becomes better as intel
ligence, directed more and mora upor
muscles of steel and nerves of electric
ity, enables them to shorten the work
ing day at the same time that thu
comforts and refnements of life ar,
multiplied.-Ne'U York San.