Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-09-06
Nubbins From Hills Address

1ue lOllOW1ng are extracts 1IDm
the address delivered by Presidsnt
James J. Hill at the State Fair list
Monday:
The, average man is often mqe
interested in speculative theories
than in his plain duty toward hin
self and his neighbor. The average
state is filed with visions of lis
place in the procession of the years,
while it overlooks the running az
count of daily expenses.
Within forty-four years we shall
have to meet the wants of more than
two hundred million people.
Notwithstanding the addition Of
more than a million people a year
from abroad, nearly all of them mer
and women who must work for a
living, labor outside of the cities
was never as scarce or wages as
high as at the present time.
Within twenty years, perhaps,
we shall have no place east of the
Rocky mountains timber product
worth recording, and shall then be
compelled to begin in earnest the
slow process of reforesting.
The two great resources of the
under earth, economically speaking,
that are indispensable to human
comfort and growth, are coal and
iron.
The estimated life of the Pennsyl-
vania anthracite fields, whose
narrow area has permitted closer
approximation, is put at little more
than fifty years.
In the year 1850, as far as our
own resources are concerned, we
will approach an ironless age.
Every people is thus reduced in
the final appraisal of its estate to
reliance upon the soil.
Yet the waste of our treasure has
proceeded so far that the actual
value OF the soil for productive pur-.
poses has already observation-disclosures
than it should have done in five
centuries OF use. ..~.
The people have neglected the
preservation OF the soil. They take
away all and give nothing back.
Only two states in the Union
show an average total value of farm
products in excess of $50 per acre
of improved land.
Lest the conditions of life should
be made too favorable for this
people, it's home markets are sur
rendered, bound rigidly by law, to
the comparatively small number
who control domestic supplies of
raw material for manufacture.
Agriculture in the most intelli-
gent meaning of the term, is some
thing almost unknown in the United
States.
Except in isolated instances, on
small tracts here and there, farmed
by people sometimes regarded as
cranks, and at some experiment
stations, there is no attempt to deal
with the soil scientifically, gener-
ously or even fairly. " ..-
1.-THE average for the United States
in 1899 was 1910 bushels per acre.
In 1904 it was 12-5-1O. That is
about the figure for long series of
years. More than half century
ago the average yield in England
had risen above 26 bushels to the
acre. @@ .sI..
From 81 acres in the suburbs of
Paris there have been grown in a
single season 25O,OO pounds of.
vegetables.
It is mathematical fact that with
in twenty years under present con-
ditions our wheat crop will not be
sufficient for home consumption and
seed, without leaving a bushel for
export.
The government should establish
a small model farm on it's own land.
In every rural congressional dis
trict. later, perhaps, in every county
in the agricultural states.
Disseminate knowledge offarming
as it should and must be, instead of
maintaining the pitiflll bribe Of a
few free seeds.