Milford chronicle., 1908-10-02
POLICIES THAT MAKE
AMERICAN FARMERS RICH
What Republican Administrations
Have Done to Build Up
Our Agriculture.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE

Expense Which the Bryan Platform
Calls unnecessary and Waste.
full Consists in Large Part of
Money Used in Research at
Home and Abroad For the Farm
cr's Beneft-Taft in Favor of
This Policy and Will Maintain 1t
in Its Present Efficiency.
II is not alone in building up home
markets for the American farmer and
Keeping those markets for him when
putt up that Republican Congresses
and administrations have aided the
FARMER to become prosperous and in
dependent. The increased expendi-
lures of the National Government,
which, according TO the Bryan plat
form, are unnecessary and waste
Iul, consist in large part of expenses
incurred by the Department of Agri-
culture in scientific research at home
and abroad for the farmers benefit.
Strenuous efforts have been and
are being made to encourage the
home production of articles we have
been importing from foreign coun-
tries. During the last eleven years
that is the period since the Democra-
cy went out of power at Washington
there has been an increase in the
production of sugar from beets which
makes the product of 1907, amount
ing to 100000 tons, over thirteen
times larger than that of 1896, and
Its value fifteen times larger. Eleven
years ago we produced only one
fourth of the rice consumed in the
United States, but thanks to the fos-
tering work of the National Govern
ment under Republican administra-
ton, the rice growers now produce
more than sufficient for home con-
sumption, and markets are being
sought abroad for the surplus.
Research by the Bureau of Soils
has demonstrated that we can pro-
duce at home the fine tobaccos for |
which we have been paying over S2O,-
100000 to foreign countries. Nearly /
hfty millions of bushels of wheat are |
being grown in regions of the United |
states heretofore regarded as unpro- |
ductive, result in part of the work |
OF explorers sent out by the Govern
ment, who have searched for and pro-
cured in foreign countries grains and /
plants suitable for our various soils.
maintained to prevent the introduce
ton from abroad of diseased animals,
and the diseases of domestic animals
are being studied with a view to their
complete eradication. Diseases of
fruits, vines and vegetables are
closely followed up with remedies in
tended to prevent or cure, and the
civilized world has had occasion to
admire the persistence With which
agents of the Department of Agricul-
-ure have sought out and found in
lOcuous insects whose nature it is to
prey upon and destroy other insects
hat were a pest to American orch
lrds, vineyards and grainields. These
efforts have been successful in a de-
gree that amounts to a vast saving
Tor the cultivator, and also for con-
sumers generally.
The Meat Inspection law and the
Pure Food and Drugs law have been
# inestimable benefit, not only to the
armer but to the community at large,
md even if standing alone they should
ommand the gratitude of the whole
country for the party which is re-
ponsible for framing them. These
avs, carefully enforced. have com
elled number of fakes and frauds
rs to mend their ways and give what
hey had pretended to give before
To the farmers and farms of the
Inited States is due the fact that the
alance of trade, instead of being W
gainst us IS in our favor, and to the cl
-epublican party and its policies be- s.
,ngs the credit of aiding the farmer ii
y every means within reach of al
ventieth century science to gain the til
1yantageous position which he occu- OF
les. With Taft as President and a tn
epublican Cabinet and Congress CT
lose policies will be maintained with th
lie same thOroughness and efficiency al
) in thu past, and every new problem dc
! it arises will be met and solved al
it'll the same persistence and sue pi
SIS. As the Bryan platform has al 10
ady denounced the increased ex- ce
,nses of Government as "unnecces-
ry and wasteful," there would be as
ny strong reason for believing that M
it'll Bryan at the head of affairs the itl
1rk of the Department of Agricul- in
re would be narrowed and restrict or
to a degree that would seriously go
saken its usefulness and injure the bu
terests of the farmer. All signs at WI
esent point, however, to an over Wis
refining victory for Taft and Sher- tn
an, in which the farmer will be PE
nd in hand with the business man lar
d the wage worker in vindicating CHI
? sound judgment of the American Fri
ople and their contempt for the Chi so,
merry, deceit and impOsture which Ia
? the stock in trade of Organism. an