Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-09-22

the great and fertile state of Ohio, in
the Middle West, showed a decline
of more than $60,000,O0O.
ION the new lands of the West,
where once the wheat yield was from
twenty to thirty bushels an acre, it is
now from twelve to eighteen
I'm manufactures we have come to
consider small economies so carefully
that the difference of a fraction of a
cent, the utilization of by.product o.
something formerly consigned to the
scrap heap, makes the difference be-
tween profit and bankruptcy. In
farming we are satisfied with a small
yield at the expense of the most rapid
soil deterioration. We are satisfied
with national average annual pro-
duct of $11.3S per acre, at the cost OF
diminishing annual return from the
same fields, when we might just as
well secure from two to three times
that sum. y If a process for
extracting metallic wealth from rocks
were to be discovered tomorrow,
as to assure the country an added vol
ume of $1,OOO,OOO,000 in wealth every
year the nation would talk of nothing
else. Yet these things would be but
a trifie when compared with the pos
sibilities of agricultural development
in the United States"
The government, urges Mr.. Hill,
should establish "a small model farm
on its own land in every rural con-
gressional district, later perhaps in
every county in the agricultural
states" He pleads, moreover, that
the new crusade be proclaimed every
where, from the executive chamber,
from the editorial office, from the plat
form, and above all from every col
lege classroom and from every little
schoolhouse in the land"
So far as concerns the situation of
the day, assents The Evening Post
New York;, "Mr. Hills point is un-
questionably well taken" "Mr. Hill
has shown qualities. not vastly differ
ent from those that have made great
seers and prophets" asserts the New
York Evening Sun. If we follow hi
advice, it adds, one result will be
something of return of the old-time
simplicity" and there will be less
need for worrying about the oblitera-
ton of men," The Boston Herald re-
CARDS his utterance as sensational"
and adds:
at Is impossible for the United
States to continue long to have more
people within it's borders than 1t can
provide maintenance for. When that
time comes, we shall have emigration
instead of immigration. Famine and
those minor affections due to INSULT
cient sustenance will diminish popu-
lation If an arrest birth-rate does not
produce that result years before the
margin of bare subsistence has been
reached"
The New York Times regards Mr..
Hills suggested remedial measures as
admirable" but goes on to say:
"In the mean time it Is to be noted
that the best possible system of model
farms would not check the exhaustion
of our coal and iron. But here also
it is possible that the outlook is not
so desperate as might be inferred.
Electricity may take the place of coal
as source of mechanical power
there is water-power enough in the
valley of the Delaware alone, if prop
erly used, to afford half-million
horse-power-andt the Delaware is but
one valley in scores of the same fruit
full capacity. Nor is the prospect for
iron hopeless. Mr.. Hill speaks of the
enormous supply in the Orient, and
with the probable advance in trans
portation and utilization iron in the