The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-31
AGRICULTURE
At JAMESTOWN
Exhibits To Show Progress
That Has Been Made In
Breeding Of Plants.
GREAT ADVANCE SHOWN
Work of Horticulturists Also to be
Illustrated at Big Ex-
position.

Norfolk. Va. July s1.-This is the
age of short cuts TO everything.
The educational object lesson in
agriculture and horticulture such as
shall be exhibited at the jamestown
exposition are to comprise features
and demonstrations of development
from this first Introduction and Guilt
walton in this country TO the present
improved the economic condition.
Plant breeding in its earliest in
fancy, its possibilities and even its
fundamental principles will be shown.
and on up through its growth to ma
| turity. Certainly no previous display
of a similar character has in any way
approached the propitious oppor
tunity that viii be offered at the
jamestown exposition to farmers and
promoters Of husbandry.
BY reason of climate, soil and other
natural conditions. most valuable re-
suits should be realized, and hence
prove to be the greatest inspiration
and educational vantage seekers of
! seed knowledge ever presented or at
tempted in this promotion of agri-
culture and horticulture and likewise a
potent factor in influencing their fu-
ture commercial value and demand.
| These vast possibilities are not alone
for one year or for our time or race,
but should be benefcient legacies for
every man. woman and child who shall
ever inhabit the earth.
The evolution and all the variations
of plants are simply the means which
they employ in adjusting themselves
to external conditions, OF which illus
trations will show under domestica-
tion and fertilization of soils. Every
problem of plant physiology, includ-
ing the innumerable organisms of in
sect life, together with the most ap-
proved methods of combating their
ravages may be seen and studied.
Through the work of systematic ex-
periments and study some OF the most
interesting triumphs attained thus far
in the economy or management of
plant breeding; agriculture, cultivation,
husbandry farming, geogocs. geoponics,
tillage, agronomy. gardening, spade
husbandry, vintage. horticulture, alb
oreulture, Horticulture; landscape gar
dening will be exhibited, showing inn
provements in hardihood, vigor, size
shape and color.
Dividing this industry in two grand
sections. the art and science, oppor-
= tunity will be given for peculiar COM
parison and demonstration of personal
J ideals, commercial valuation and de-
mands. 1t will be significant and sur
prising to note the remarkable ad-
vaneement of agriculture and horti-
culture, as well as the enormous source
of revenue they have returned.
More than a million plants are now
on the grounds and many more are to
be added to these in making the park
like environments of this wonderfully
historical and educational exposition
the most unique scene of natural
, beauty ever witnessed under such aus
| pieces.
/ America is far in advance of the
rest of the world in the develc pment
of industry, and while the great com
! mercial profit realized therefrom is in
no small degree gratifying, it is also
true that this progress exerts an ex-
cellent moral influence upon and i'm
proves its people.
! God Himself cannot make a man or
woman worthy of consideration ex-
cept in the crucible of industry"
During the past fifty years agri-
culture and horticulture has had q
phenomenal growth, developing hand
in hand their expansion the many va
/
cessity for their proper care and pro-
lection in the manufacture of innu-
merable tools and implements, arti-
fetal fertilizers, harvesting machinery,
irrigators and storage by refrigeration
for perishable vegetables and fruits
! The latest of these will be displayed
. It is interesting to know that almost
upon the same site facing the same
body Of water through which the good
ships Susan Constant, God Speed and
the Discovery sailed. there may be
seen exhibited the result of three hun
dred years development In plant cult
ure. That from what was begun by
the first colonial settlers OF Virgins
!. in the agricultural undertakings, nee
essarily a sustenance, has sprung
5 a great industry supporting millions o
people and increasing in commercial
value TO millions of dollars-ever,
phase of which development will b,
fully displayed at the jamestown ex
| 1nsfffon