New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-04
g KEEP BOYS ON FARM"
Makes Plea for agriculture at Min
neSOta State Far.

ST faGl, sept S-Under ciOudless sky. and
with cool September breezes blowing this mime
sofa State Fair Association began to-day it's an
hual agricultural exposition and livestock show
This is the fair I'm which the entire agricultural and
livestock raising industries OF the Northwest are
especially interested. The programme to-day in
Guided the usual trottiEg events with special
against time by Cresceus and Dan Patch.
A special feature to-day the dedication of the
new livestock amphitheAtre. which has a seating
capacity of 1909 In this building horse fairs will
be held during :air week. and some of the 5luest
blooded horses of the country will be exhibited
there
The dedicatory exercises began with brief ed
dress by Vice President Nelson OF the State Fair
Association. who turned the building to Gov
ernOr Johnson. representing the state. Governor
Johnson responded. and at the close of mis- address
introduced J. J. Hl. president of the Great North
ern Railroad. who said
Notwithstanding the addition of more than
Them men ana women wh mSt work for y T
labor outside Of the cities was never as scarce or
ton fingers IN the great centres and adds To the
difficulties attending employment. The farms stretch
extensions have 10 get help at the highest market
they employ mere hOboes. who desert as soon as
they have succeeded in getting transportation from
siege the employment agencies in vain. and offer
the lazy tramp a sum for days work in she field
unheard of in any other country in the world The
situation grows more embarrassing yearly Hours
for farm as well as shop hands Men are scarcer
as the movement Of population 70 the cities grows
years magnificent crop will be either reduced in
bilty of getting labor 70 handle it properly. Dis
couraged small farmers now are selling thei- land
ers on The soil Not 70 t,,T The STRANGER svTav hut
10 watch with fear possible increase OF the birth
the farm and to send youths from the city to swell
the depleted ranks Of agreultuTal industry is the
and an Intelligent patriotism.
in some fashion fty million Of additional popna,
ton and by the middle q this century there will
people in the United States there to-day. No
sterner problem than this certain prospect sets be
fore us What are we 10 do with our brother
children With shelter and their daily Bread Our
Our one resource looking at humanity as some
thing more than the creature Of day. is the pro-
the public land its division among ali the greedy
who choose 10 ask for H. the apPropratio9 of large
tional heritage Only one-h half Of the land IN pri-
produce one-haf Of What the land might be made
70 yield without losing an atom Of its fertility Yet
the actual value Of the soil for productive purposes
on the new lands Of the West, where once the
acre, 4 6 now from twelve to eighteen, Franlp,
wearing out Of the soil as IL the earth were gar
ment that must be destroyed by the wearing If
out what is to become Of the race? The fact is
th sSi 6SPeTE Iea9 anan thfr
fact IS that with the disappearance Of pestilence
future, ali contributing to the growth OF popula-
ton the productiye capacity OF the soil must be
The single intelligent advance practical lines
OF a century is the reclamation law Initiated and
inspired and paid FOR by few Western railway
source Of food supply and the opportunity FOR EN-
n the face of a cyclone" If every project co1tem
plated feasible were executed and II ell were
sixty ndh Sy the G6 S Ss added ' to- aTD s
arable national domain and II only forty acres OF
the needs OF the actual addition to population by
natural increase and by immigration. for less
Certain IT IS that the time has come for setting
study OF national activity and economy according
The Tst sts5 IS 1 to reare our dependencs upon
the cultivation of the soil The next will be 10 con-
upon that neglected occupation We are stiIl
clingng 20 the skirts OF civilization born OF srest
the farm and expended itself upon mechanical ap-
ities whose favorable reactions alter back slowly
real master Of himself and y his destiny We
change. and a larger comprehension Of asriculture
as our mean resource and our most dfgnihed and
10 their Just aim in the improvement OF methods
and the Increase of WELD the wisdom and the set
and the willing labor of the millions. who thus
itance.
ths term. IS something almost unknown in the
so states we ~ all a Is can be- made ne
yield by the most rapidly exhaustive methods In
Economies so carefully that the adherence Of
fraction Of cent the utilization OF by product
heap, makes the difference between profit and
bankruptcy. In farming we are satisfied with a
small yield at the expense OF the most rapid soil
When we have added 20 the national export trade
soOGo.OO0 year. the country rings with sslt-con-
graduation. and We ask the plaudits OF the world
extracting metallic
bricks were 10 be discovered tomorrow, such as
10 the country added volume of 100000.
Ocl in wealth every year the nation would talk
." nothing else Yer these tb bninss MGf O pu
cultural development in the United States, The
S6hn4y as y Mss q 3So6n f hs
for high prices and generally favorable conditions
farm area Of the United States a little less than
One-half is under cultivation. Utilize the other
half. and without any change whatever in method.
methods only a little. not 10 high class intensive
farming bur 10 an agrIGuIure as lar advanced as
most progress. and without any addition whatever
an acre would be doubled We should be able by
f be ADOPTION OF em OF culture e S a @6 by
present Yield Of $500 c0Oc1o per annum Of farm
PRODUCTS That IS we may add SO 90 COO COO or
we so choose. And this is only a beginning.
There three essentials any agriculture
worthy of the name. The first is rotation of crops
ystem all too prevalent. OF raising the same roo
INDEFINITELY on lhs same Re-. land until i has been
Of poverty Even without fertilzmg The yield of a
productive diversion preserved from exb aus On
merely by tho restorative variety Of change which
TO be Law OF all living things. The second
method of increasing WELD and preserving soil pro
ductivity-the more liberal use OF fertizing ma.
teral. such Is possible where farms are OF small
size and cattle are kept gives abundant evidence
The third factor In Improvement better tiilsee is
most ntereSins OF al: because II opens up unmeas
ma1in'um food bearing capacity of the earth Of