The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-03

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pie marching in plain sight tnwaIi i,a and ~.
nese.ting and demanding that they shall be fed.
hrom 1850 to 1900 our population leape1 FROM
to 10000, COO. In that time vast
! area .ot Wilderness was put beneath. The plow.
| heE IN those same years; the area of improved
ialN~lh THE North Atlantic states remained stil-
l tionary..s 1t Is now steadily on the decrease
4 IN the South Atlantic states while the enclosed
urea rs larger, the farming area has decreased
| ~ more than 2OOO0OO acres. The test of val.
ues Is 'stiil more, Indicative. Even the great
and Fertile state OF Ohio in the middle west
showed a decline OF more than $50, 900, O00,
This Schange in the section Of Oldest cultivation
| under modern conditions il significant. IT Ii
not Singular. The coil Of the south ia moving
| on the same decline, tho the fact Is less OBJ
vious In the total change of agricultural condi-
IONS since the civil war On the new lantia
| OF the west, where once the wheat yield was
from twenty to thirty bushels per- acre 1t is now
from WE'VE to eighteen. Frank sand without
shame, This 1s attributed TO the wearing out,
th.+ ny 80, so!i as y the earth We're garment
| tnat, must be destroyed by the wearing. If the
| EARTH tne mother OF hurAinity,, is to wear
ou', what. Is sto become Of the. racer The fact
nrodnst, sois, properly treated, maintain their
p Sltyehess lnaemftelX under cultivation: The
Iact ls that with the disappe arance OF
beI"s anu anu tne discontinuance of war that
t, ~ .he% future, al contributing TO tile
g. tt VI population' the productive capacity
| " .ne SOL must be sustained at Its highest
po'n' or 'he world VIII suffer want. = ~
| Sustaining pouar 10 ~. CT,
| O"~A> ~ "4Ao ooA1' :.
| The DEMONSTRATING power of the soil is low
cred in two ways: First, by, physical destrnc,
ton thru the CARRYING away Of the eurrh to
| the seu; and second chemically nv +Eo ,ri+h
drawal of the elements required for nIont ,ife
The waste from the former cause is very great
1t accounts for sterility in the older which
are also the billy portions of the cultivated
country. More serious and even more uniyersaI
and speedy is the process of deliberate soil
| exhaustion Professor Carver of Harvard .ftar
| a tour of 500 miles on horseback last year
records his conclusion that agriculture. as an
independent industry, able in itself to n,oinl
tain L. community does not exist in the hilly
since the favored wheat -producins areas - ths
American northwest gave = Veil 70 fron; +a,t ne
five bushels per acre upwards: Now on averaSo
of twelve to fifteen is accented ,s satisfoctor,.
| Under the stress of need nv inta,ltrant ~;
walton, many: of the lands Of Great Rrfta n
| cropped for a Thousand years ora m.S. to No. :
thirty bushels to the acre. The rich, deep soil
decades, produces about twelve Tho cana rat;o
holds good of other cerenls and of ererv nrodmct
| of the field. The sen islands that onca Hra,,
the most famous cotton stanIa ~ 49, ,5 ~
| virtually abandoned The people- have neclected
the preserva ton of the soil They TAXA .auo v
all and give nothing hack Thoro fer+t1;vo+,,n
of the land has no place In the general worl
on the American farm ONLY Two stotas n ~
| union show an average total vo1,,o -, r ,
products In excess Of san nor oora ~ in,n.onad
land The figure for Illinois IN 1000 was - o ne
for North Carolina, $40 r.: for Minnesota ss "a
BY proper cultivation these returns could easilv
be doubled and still leave the s0rs, resonrons
unimpaired. The doubling of all products Of tho
farm would add to the wealth of this country
from five to six billion dollars everv yeorI a..
cording to the crop Weld az tho, seasor 49, ~,
| range Of market prices. therefore, md +h,s ,s
the focal point of the whole matter tho onun+-
is approaching the inevitable advent of a nonm
lation Of $50, 900, 900 or 200 600 900 within the
lifetime of those now grown to mans estate
with potential food supply that falls a. the
draft upon it advances How ara tha.. noon1o
| to be fed? =,
-. Orr roreio,, mr,ao
The foreign trade Of tho Irn,tsn s+.+.s So,
been bee made an object Of lesss solicitude
ana ser;gratuation. What we do is to export
lnod1ties. One contains raw materials the prod
ucts OF the upper and under earth. 1t includes,
aIuinS aIucles IKE hour, provisions and refined
o aI, "n!cn are Dut one degree removed from the
~ SUI, chaneed IN form for economy Of
tnree1ourths of our entire ex-
pofts OF domestic commodities. The treasury
~ vut Autule ~ .pelng despoiled to swell the
inp aS growing rlches OF the day. The remain
pioperiy De ctassed as products of manufacture,
- ms a stored treasure In another form. Exports
,,+t uomes.ic manufactures, constituting the term
than % nor constitute trihe more
neon IN the markets Of the world where our
Proportion OF "tnem must ind 1t In the future
II all are to survive or to remain a showing
that not even. the endeavors of: boa zcan
improve, is the Inevitable conseoiience 81. q
policy more destructble than TINT OF the snand.
thrift. Lest the conditions of life shouId he
made too favorable for this people. its home
markets are surrendered bound rightly nv. law
to the courparatively small number who cor+ro,
domestic supplies of raw material for monu
! facture. At the same time the cost of nroduc.
ton effectually prevents the securing Of any
| considerable or permanent control in tho mar
kets of the outer world where olona o,- re,,i,o.t
of tomorrow could find outlet for this Town -
| their activity.
Tho poc1.~o,+,.., rE..-- ",'' ...'~
ooA''11A"'AoA ~ LOW. s.sS=
. The single intelligent advance On nrayEJco i,
lines made by. public authority within fhps Inst
quarter Fof century is the reclamation Siaw
Initiated. and inspired and naid for ~ Sfo,v
western railway companies 1, provides I1Tr a
| real addition to the sources of food M1nn1v and
| the opportunity for employment. Rut & ia onIv
a light breeze blowing in the. ace.;of a ~.
clone. If every project. contemplated as fao.,-
BILE were executed and II all waro comn,a.s j
instantly by the rub of a magic. lamn so,oa
| 80 900 900 acres would he added IN tha orob1o
national, domain. And If onIy fortv acras ~
this were assigned to zach family 49, H,11
| supply the needs of the actueI. addition ~
population by natural increose md nv fmn,ioro.
ton for less than three Years 49,, ~ &
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Crude Agricultural M.+hoa,.:;
gu 1Ao'4ANete' -
| Agriculture, in the most intelligent meaning
! OF the term, is something almost unknown in
the United States. In manufactures we have
come to consider small economies SO carefully
mat the difference Of fraction of cent the
utllzalon OF Dy7product OF something for
merry consigned 10 the scrap heap makes the
olnerence between g profit; and bankruptcy. In
farming VIC are satisfied with a small yield at
,ne expense OF the most rapid soil deterioration
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