The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-03

simple process Of grinding the rocks to
powder to he sold at one and one
half cents pound. Granite.grown to-
bacco is n commercial success IN Vir-
ginia fields today as it was scientific
success in the Department of Agricul-
ture experiment stations two years
ago. Nitrogen is everywhere present
in the air, but until lately II was nee
essary to employ nitrate of soda as
means of getting it into the soil If
there 1T time TO devote year to
growing clover to be plowed under.
The nitrate came from South America
and was expensive. Now the waters of
Niagara move the wheels of the ma
chinery which captures the nitrogen
from the air and imprisons it in cot
ton sacks to be sent out to the farmer
who needs it.
The ninety years are certain to re-
veal other great economies, of which
the average farmer of today does not
dream. There are probably 25,000,000
horses and mules in this country for
which there will be no need in the good
year 1000. The cheaper and stronger
machine will drive the horse and the
mule from the fields. This movement
is already beginning. The millions of
animals whose usefulness will have
ceased before 2000 now consume each
year the products of 75,000,000 acres
of land. lf devoted to potatoes, this
land would yield three times the pres
ent total world crop. Under the most
advanced of modern conditions these
acres could be made to support fifty
million cows-enough to give quart
of milk day to every one Of the
3s5,000,OO0 people we will have when
America is grown.
BY the elimination of the horse and
the utilization of the swamp lands, the
farming acreage of the country can
be doubled without touching the for
ests or other idle lands of the country.
MS available for farms, ninety years
hence there will be five acres for every
two persons in the country, something
more than five times what the Chinese
have now.
There are indications that the de-
mand upon the farms will change in
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are not likely to become strict vege-
tarians within the space of ninety
years, they probably will eat much less
meat in proportion TO population than
they now consume. Medical science
and economy will unite to bring about
changed conditions on this line. 1t
has been demonstrated that for every
bit of animal food eaten there is a
vegetable counterpart. Vegetarian
races have capacity for endurance
which equals, if it does not surpass
that of the meat eaters. The econo-
mist viii urge that the lost motion
expended in growing cattle for food be
conserved.
We eat porterhouse steaks at TWEEN
ty-hve cents a pound when we might
there is more nutrition in the pound
of beans than in the pound of beef.
1t requires four years to grow single
good beef steer Under the most favor
able conditions 1t requires the products
of six acres of land for one summer
to make him ready for the block.
When prepared for the table his flesh
will furnish single meal for about
1900 persons. The same six acres of
ground would have grown enough
beans to feed $4,000 people one meal.
And the bean-eaters would have de-
rived more strength and nourishment
| from their food than the beef eaters.
The mathematical theories OF the
economist are never realized in actual
life and never will be, but there is
no doubt that the American people in
the coming ninety years will learn to
save much that now goes to waste.
The housewives OF the American farm
throw away more cooked food each
year than is consumed by their sisters
of Russia. Who has not sat at the
board of a farmer upon which was
heaped enough food for a company of
soldiers? Such wanton waste as that
will be stopped.
Another great saving that is coming
will be brought about by better knowl-
edge of the science Of cooking. The
/ farmers wife of the latter end Of the
century will prepare her meals on an
electric range-wood is too valuable to
burn-and she will prepare only enough
for the needs OF her family. The food
will be better prepared than 1t is row.
adays in the average home, and its
1 wholesomeness will make more Of 1t
available for the uses of the body. A