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exhaustion of iron. his chief aide. DR..
Galloway, chief of the Bureau OF Plant
Industry, offered an Interesting sugges-
ton.
we build our cities Of iron, he said
land make them uugainly. unsightly,
uneCOnOmiC. Some day we will do as
they do in wiser countries limit strict
ly the height of buildings 10 say six
floors and make IT nc longer an object
20 build them of iron. Then we vii.
draw on the soil with It's inexhaustible
clay and stone for building materials.
Look at our new building for this de
Fartment-fve stories high. and not
enough iron TO make set OF barrel
hoops IN it--re-enfOrCed concrete con-
struction. It viii last FOR centuries, and
no iron structure could De SO attractive
as il VIII be-"
Secretary Wilson nodded assent and
resumed. Eve study the soil in all its
relationship plant growing in it, the
animal living on II It Is true as Mr..
Hill says. that the British grow an
average of thirty bushels Of wheat per
acre TO ours Of less than fifteen. But
we can get thirty II We adopt their
methods. They feTtilZe for q root crop
every four or five years, aud then grow
wheat the next year, and that only on
the best land. They grow barley and
oats on the poorer land. Wheat grew
twenty TO thirty bushels I'm Iowa fifty
years ago. now little is grown because
the farmers find stock growing more
profitable. But the Iowa blue grass
lands can be turned up today and will
produce as big wheat crops as ever
As director of the Iowa experiment sta
tOn I got between thirty and forty
bushels of wheat. and have no doubt
they do II yet: but II was on the best
land, and IN the best condition.
New Farming Methods Necessary.
1.-The Mississippi valley farmer nova
days works altogether for corn, and his
system Of rotation IS based on the re-
qulrements Of the corn and livestock
that he wants to produce. He raises
corn two or three years on a given piece
Of land. till the appearance Of She root
worm warns him to change; then oats
year. and perhaps then another crop
of corn: then he seeds the land and let's
it lie in pasture for two or three years.
When the sod is then turned UP again
he gets "a great corn crop; and II ne
wanted wheat, he would get II as well.
/ know many farms in Iowa that are
raising better crops today than they
did fifty years ago. There need be no
fears Of the capacity Of the soil 70 feed
the people Mr.. Hill expects To see here;
and don't question his figures. either.
We viii have them. But we must have
different farming methods.
Machinery Causes Revolution.
"Mr. HuTs observations on the sub
Ject of farm help are correct. But IL is
hard ia do much for the farmer at this
point Help is expensive and scarce.
But better appliances make il produce
more. A year ago, travelling in the
Southwest. saw this we'll illustrated
In Arkansas or Tennessee 1 would see
a man culuvating behind single horse
that might weigh 500 or 800 pounds. Co
ing on 10 Oklahoma. that man would
be working with two horses. Up in the
corn country of Kansas or Iowa, he
would have three or four 1600-pound
horses. In old times a man and two
horses would handle q ten-fOOt harrow
now a man and four big horses drag q
twenty-fOot harrow. Then, grass was
cut, raked, cooked, loaded on a wagon
and later unlOaded in barn or stack, all
with pitchforks now il is Taked, loaded
and unlOaded with a machine, by horse