Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25


NN/ III gold field could be dis
M covered which IN one year
~ would turn out 10 times the
value OF all the gold and silver now
annually mined IN the United states
IL would set our nation crazy and cx-
cite the world such q gold field has
been discovered. within the past four
years, IN the great corn belt Of the
United States. our corn crop now
amounts IN round numbers 10 more
than 100000 GOO bushea and 10 annually
worth in the neighborhood OF Slo0o,oOO'-
o0O. All the gold and silver mined in
this country amounts TO but little more
than sl00000o0l 500 tB1t at .o.u.l o.,
Is worth 10 times MS much.
Now, the discoveries Of the last -four
years have shown that this great crop
can be doubled, without adding one
acre to the land cultivated or 1 cent?
to the cost OF cultivation. This means
IN time possible Increase OF $1,000.
100000 annually IN our national wealth,
which, on a per cent basis, means The
addition Of S20O00,o0O,00O 20 our national
assets,
CORN IL KING
These are big figures, but corn Is
mighty. Il rs Uncle SANS biggest crop.
II rs the greatest crop OF tho world
aud we have the monopoly ~ IT, How
great II Is few people realize. Tho
figures are 80 vast ones mind cannot
grasp them. In 1902 we raised more
than $500 600 bushels of com and
I'm 1903 the product was more than
2.20O 000, 900 bushels. Let me pat .dp g
figures into concrete shape suppose
all the corn raised last year could be
gathered into one pile and loaded on
two-horse wagons Let each wagon
with It's team and driver take up 80
feet Of roadway and start the process
sion eastward, loading wagon after
wagon as the corn coop moves on, Put
the noses Of the horses at the tnilboards
OF the wagons IN front and how far
away 90 You think the first wagon
would be when the last wagon was
loaded? Suppose them to start at the
Mississippi river, would II be down In
Ohio No, In New York? No. out
IN the Atantlc7 over IN Europe2
Away on IN Asia2 In the middle OF
the Pacific ocean, No. II would be
thousands upon thousands Of miles
further on. II would reach not once,
but II times around the world, a dis
lance OF more than 100000 miles, one
years corn crop at 40 bushels OF shelled
corn to the wagon would make s. con-
tnuous lines Of wagon loads from Bos-
ton to San Francisco. If you could
bridge the skies and start It toward
the moon Il would make solid wagon
train which would reach 10 that dead
planet and 20 on for 900 miles beyond.
II you could load II on cars IN 500
bushel lots at 40 feet TO the car, includ-
ing platforms, and start them on a
double track the two first oars would
have gone from the Mississippi TO New
York, across the Atlantic, across Europe
end almost across Asia before the last
two cars were loaded.
And this mighty crop can be doubled,
IA / have said before without adding
one cent TO the cost Of production or
one acre ~ the area now used, 1t not
only can be done but IL being DONE The
discovery was made about four years
apo that the right kind OF seed mas
everything to do with the yield OF the
corn crop, that there ls fine blooded
corn rs there is fine blooded stock, and
that corn can be bred up like a high
strain OF Jersey cattle or "a pedigreed
trotter.
PIONEER CORN BREEDERS.
II was TO give you the story Of this
movement that | called at the agri-
cultural department today and had a
talk with Archibald Dixon Shamel, who
was one of the orlglnators of the dis
coyery Tie Is today scarcely more than
a boy, but he Is one Of the chief corn
authorities OF the United States.
first asked him how he became interest
ed in corn. He replied;
~ was raised on farm and when ]
got old enough my father gave me a
corn patch TO cultivate for myself.
had to buy the seed. do all the work
and had all the profits, My patch con-
tanned IA acres, and as ! lived In n
corn~growing region, was ambitious to
raise the best and most corn, / then
thought that the secret Of success was
IN fertilization and cultivation used