The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-03-30
FARMER OF THE FUTURE
Secretary Wilson Predicts a New
Era For American Farming.
USING SECRETS or FOREIGNERS.

tnK--suRar Bccts For Fodder.
A new era is coming for the farmers
Of the United States and those Of the
Mississippi valley and Of New York in
particular II will be the new fash
ioped farmer who will bring it about
He is the Moses Of modern agriculture
The farmer Of the future must be
practical scientist. The man who does
not understand the science Of the soil
has no business on the farm. IL boy
wants to be farmer, il is just as nee.
essary that he take course in an agri
cultural college as II is for the boy who
wants to be lawyer, doctor.
preacher. to have a university educa.
ton
The great need of the agricultural
college has been instructors who could
instruct. Why. out in Iowa we could
send to Chicago and get a carload Of
chemists If we wanted to pay the money
for them. but we could not find n man
who could teach the student the sci.
ence of making butter and cheese. The
government can endow agricultural col
leges all ii wants to. The more that is
done the better But it cannot furnish
instructors. because there have not been
any We are going to give Il few young
men chance at the department to learn
the scientific feature Of instruction in
agriculture, but we can only help
few. The only way that these instruct.
ors can be made is through the agricul.
tural colleges We don't want the stu.
dents taught the Theory, but we want
the practical facts put before their eyes
AT one college know of they are
making extensive experiments with live
stock to show what particular breed il
is that will produce the best basis for
butter and cheese The students are be.
ing taught that not by hearsay. but by
what they can see. ! don't say that
every student puts on overalls, takes
milking stool and goes ont and milks
though myself think that is pretty
good way to do The point is that each
boy is taught by the facts that are laid
before him, divining facts, the essence
of certain truths and why they are
| truths There is no lesson 30 good as an
object lesson.
The dairy farmer of the United States
is going to be great factor in the ia.
ture lie is factor at present, to be
sure. hut nothing to what he will be-
and | will tell you why, because we
have learned the secret Of Denmark s
| butter and cheese keeping so well in
| tropical climates The farmers of my
state and those Of the Mississippi valley
make as good butter as is produced any
! where, Denmark makes good butter
| We send our hutter TO China. and ii
cannot compete With the butter of Den.
mark WhyT Because it won't keep
! There Is a splendid market in the orient
but we are shut out Of it practically be-
cause our butter will not stand exporta-
| ton TO that sort of a climate
| sent a man to Denmark to find out
about it, He learned that the Danish
| dairymen fed their cattle food that con-
| tanned the same substances as the waste
of our beet sugar factories--nitrogeno
product Now, then, all we have to do
in the United States to make our but.
ter just as good in the tropics as that
of Denmark is to raise the sugar beet
and feed the waste of the factories to
the dairy cows There is no healthier
fodder than this, and it will make the
sugar beet n mighty valuable product
in great many ways. Congress has
made an appropriation to help along
the cultivation Of the sugar beet. In
this way not only is our sugar produc.
tion given great Impetus but we are
strengthening our dairy products in the
only way in which they were weak
Now we will not have to take second
place anywhere
The new fashioned farmer, the scien.
tific farmer, must study the feeding of
cattle. Not pound of cotton seed was
fed to the 400. 600 cattle we exported
last year, although the south raised
600. 900 tons of it That cotton seed
was mostly wasted or made into ferti.
lizer Think what it might have
Amounted to IL il had been fed to beef
cattle The trouble with the farmer is
that he doesn't know how to make the
best of what he has got. and he has
got to learn the science of agriculture
to know how, There is only one way to
find out these things we are ignorant of
heard that out in Japan they were
growing better rice than we grew--a
rice that was more marketable and
cheaper to grow sent man out there
to find out about it He did find out.
came back with lot of the rice, and
am having 10 tons of 1t sent through
the country now to experiment with. |
sent man to Russia because heard
there was a grass there that many
months Of winter could not kill got
it, experimental with it here and found
that what | heard was right Over IN
South America now there is a man
whom sent out who is studying and
growing the date plum This is being
done with the idea Of introducing il
into the United States.
II we should stop shipping food prod
ucts to Eurcpe-although such thing
Is not possible--we might not starve
them out, but we would make them
hungry all right Any such action as
that on our part would stimulate the
raising of wheat in the valleys Of the
Nile and Sould give the Russian farm
or chance that has never come to him
But Europe never will get along with
out us You cannot keep the American
farmer down. James Wilson Secre.
taTy of Agriculture. in st Louis Re
public
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.