The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-28
RESEARCH CAUSES
FARMERS SUCCESS
SECRETARY WILSON TELLS OF
VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC EDU-
CATION TO TILLERS.
VAST FOREST RESERVES
viii Work Marvellous Benefits in
Years to Come, He Says in
Banquet at AmerIcus Club
Use of Alcohol.

P,tsburg, April 27--The annual ban
quet of the Ans ricus club of Pitts
burg in honor Of the birth of u. S
Grant, was held tonight with Secre
itary OF Agriculture James Wilson,
Congressman Grant Morser. of Ohio
ind Washington Gardner, of Michigan,
as the chief speakers.
Mouser spoke on Something in the
LAST ID cade of the Republican AL
ninistration." Gardner's topic was
General Grant on the Issues Set
lied BY His Victories, His Fame Rests
Secure
Wilson spoke on Agriculture in
Dur Industries" He said in part
THE most succ: ssful farming in
our day is carried en- by men of high
est intelligence regarding all that per
| tains to the soil, the plant he ami
! nal, and tha market. The American
| producer from the field would not be
the potent factor he is without the in
gentor to perfect his machinery and
| the carrier who transports long dis
| tances at low rates; nor would he
play ths part he does in the worlds
markets with poorer soils and less
genial climates.
Agricultural Education.
"A vigorous movement by federal
and state agencies is in progress to
educate the young people of the farm
and to make research into the wide
field of science that pertains to pro-
iucjng the naticns food, clothing. and
other necessities. Discussion has been
active for a generation or more re-
garding the preparation of the farme
for his life work. Many educators
think the farmer needs nothing be
yond common school education,
Many legislators think that money de-
voted to training farm people Is vast |
voted lands and mllrdleutaoununun |
ed. The federal government has vot |
ed lands and money to educate the |
children of the farmer and the me-
chanic and has endowed institutions
to make research. The states have
followed the lead of the congress, and
something's is being done in each
of them, much is being done in some
Of them, to teach the science of ag-
riculture. The movement among those
Interested Is so strong that the old
fashioned educator and the hostile
legislator are getting into the minor
ity.
Our Vast Forest Reserves.
Regarding cur forest reserves tn
secretary says:
I'VE have 14S,000,000 acres of ma
tional forest reserves in charge of the
department of agriculture for pres
walton and use. selected from the
wooded lands of the public domain
The mountains at the headwsters of
the streams are Natures first res r
voirs. where trees grow to protect the
that h Id the water until
1t percolates into The land. whence il
issues in springs throughout the year
face is exposed, as has occurred to
such an extent. the rains wash the
soil down TO bedrock. into the valleys,
| slroying them. causing higher and
higher floods after every heavy pre-
cipitation and lowering the streams
between floods, as the good people of
his city have lately been sxpericnc {
ng. We have gone too fast and too
ar in denudiug our mountains of their :
rees. Wood is becoming scarcer and {
learer every year. AS population in
,reas' S We shall be compelled 10 use
more acreage in its sustentation. The
rees will be planted again on the
and dams will be biult u
lold surplus water for use In times I
# drought. as is done in older coun- |
ri s. Your rivers then will be more
erviceable in summer and less dan
.erOus in the spring time"
Making Denstured Alcohol.
The making of denatured alcohol J.
gas an important subject in the ad. ;
ress. The secretary in sps aking on
his subject said Il
No more G al is being made. our
'ood fuel is getting scarce and the ,
upply of mineral oils will some DAY 7
ease. II Is high time we wor7 look
X about for Eources of light heat. o.
nd power. Other countries arc doing
his. Alcohol meets tbe requirements. =.
nd siarchy plans yield alsohol One :,
our xplorers last year found the v
iberisns at Tomsk growing a large
ariety Of potato for the alcohol L "
ieids. He brought back half a ton
them. which viii be distributed this {
lirng among the experiment stations / x
he southern cassava. yams. and
Eeet potatoes viii yield alcohol. as a
i'll tn sugar beet Corncobs give 8
gallons Of alcohol to the ton and
Eeet-coro stalks Z. Many refuse II
ants VIII be used and much unmar- NJ