The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-28

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devoted to wheat in the United States
could be easily doubled did the price of
this staple justify the expansion. It is no
rosy vision TO predict that this country
can, without violence to other agricultu-
raj interests, easily produce thousand
million bushels of wheat per annum.
Theories often suffer when brought into
violent collision with facts. The real facts
about wheat production are that it has
more than kept pace with the increase Of
population, so that wheat and its products
We're never cheaper than they are to-day
Perhaps there has never been time In
the history of the world when days la
Dor could buy so much wheat as at the
present moment The catastrophe Of STAR
walton for lack of wheat is therefore evil
IDENTIFY one which is to come suddenly since
it. gives no evidence of its approach at
the present time, and according to Sir
William il is so nearly due. We shall go
to bed some night with our storehouses
fun of wheat, and wake up the next
morning wheatless and jejune.
Wheat Eating Man Not IA Superior
Animal.
The next fallacy In Sir Williams state
DlGnlS WHICH SnOuiO receive GOuSlQtt dtiOil
is 20 the effect that only the wheat eat
ing nations are those which are capable
OF making the most rapid progress in civ
ilizauon. 1t must be granted that the
character Of the food exerts an influence
more or less pronounced upon the indi-
vidual eating il. Scientific cattle feeding
has recognized this as an economic meas
ure. A horse which is fed for mainte-
nance has quite a different ration-or
should have-from one that is kept at hard
work. and a dairy COW should have
ration differing in a marked degree from
that of a steer which is preparing for
slaughter.
Ii is not quite clear, however, that the
wheat-eating human animal is superior in
any respect, SO far as the influence of food
is concerned, to the one who eats rye, oats,
Indian corn, meat and pota toes, or mix
ture of rice and beans. Sir William is
also wrong in his tacit assumption that
the English are the greatest wheat-eating
nation. The French eat far more wheat
per head than the English do. The Ger
mans who are thought to be In the race
In civilization, eat comparatively little
wheat but an immense quantity of rye.
Americans, who are also supposed to be
men of brain and Drawn, eat freely of In
dian corn. This is not only true of the
la boring man, but the lawyers, doctors,
and even preachers in our Southern states
are fed largely on Indian corn bread. In
New England, also, corn bread is a staple
article of diet.
We are. therefore, not prepared TO ad-
nit, even granting that the wheat sup
ply should become exhausted, that the
physical and mental side of man would
deteriorate The human animal is capable
Of adapting himself to the most varied
circumstances, and with any kind of nu-
tritious food he will be able to build his
brain and develop his body. Even on
diet of brown bread, baked beans and
Goldfish. a respectable mental development
can be attained
If every grain of wheat should be re-
moved from the United STATES of America,
scientific agriculture would still undertake
to feed our people abundantly, nutritiously
and successfully, and to guarantee that
there should be no deterioration in tire
quality of their muscles or their brains.
what Science Has Done for Corn
Growing.
Look for a moment al some of the things
which scientific agriculture has done for
Indian corn. This is shown strilSingly in
the work of the experiment station of
Kentucky, where the yie4d of Indian corn
by the application of a single kind of fer
tilizer mot nitrogen) was raised from an
average of thirty-one bushels TO an aver
age of thirty-seven bushels per acre.
What scientific agriculture does for In
dian corn il also does for all farm prod
ucts and for the production of meat which
is nearly as important as an article of
diet as wheat An Illustration of this is
seen in what has already been accom-.
pIished by the experiment station in Min
nesota. In one year, on ten acres of COM
paratively unfertile, sandy land at the
Minnesota agricultural experiment station,
eighty-six sheep and lambs were pastured
from May l to Nov. l. In addition to this,
7.3 tons of green food and Sc of dried
food were secured from the same land.
The next year after this achievement was
accomplished, with some improvements in
method, ninety-three sheep and lambs were
pastured and q much larger quantity of
green and dried food obtained. During
the two seasons above referred to, a large
quantity of organic plant food in addi-
ton to that removed, was secured to sup
ply the land with humus. The same piece
of land treated by the ordinary method
would not have kept ten sheep for the
time mentioned Thus we see that scien-
tlnc agriculture, as developed in the de-
partment of agriculture and in the agri-
cultural experiment stations, is able to in
crease the meat product of the country
many fold without increasing the area de-
voted 20 grazing.
Nitrogen Not the Only Necess"rS
Fertilizer.
The next fallacy which should receive
attention to the statement that nitrogen
is the chief fertilizer which wheat grow.
ers require, and that the natural supplies
of this material cannot be depended upon
Phosphorc acid and potash are quite a.
important to wheat growing as nitrogen
Farmers avail themselves of the existine
supplies of nitrogen 20 the fullest extern
and the deposits of nitrate of soda whcf
have been found in many of the arid &c
eions have proved a great benefit to agri
culture. Last summer l visited the agrl
cultural station at Halle, where most ex
tensive experiments have been made il
heterogeneous manuring by means of nitrat,
of soda and other artificial fertilizers con
tanning nitrogen, and heterogeneous manur
ing by means of blowing under greer
| plants. In every case after series o
years of comparison, the fields which haC
been subjected TO the green manure wer,
more fertile and more satisfactory in every