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which his wages are ultimately paid
The farm products Of the United States
in 1906 were valued at ss,7e4 900, 900
and in 1907 at s7,412, 900, 900. All of
our vast domestic commerce. equal in
value to the foreign trade of all the
nations combined. is supported and
paid for by the land. OF our farm
areas only onc-half is improved 1t
does not produce one-half Of what it
could be made to yield; not by some
complex system Of intensive culture,
hut merely by ordinary care and in
dustry intclligently applied. 1t is the
capital upon which alone We can draw
through all the future, but tho amount
Of the draft that will he honored de-
pends upon the care and Intelligence
given through all tho future, but
given to its cultivation. Were any
statesman to show US how TO add 81
600 900 900 annually TO our foreign
trade. it would be tho sensation Of the
| hour The way TO do this in aSricul-
ture is open. Our share in the in
| crease would not be the percentage OF
profit allowed by successful trading.
| but the entire capital sum. on the
other side stands the fact that the un :
appropriated area suited to farm pur-
| poses is almost gone, and that we have
been for the last century reducing the
producing power of the country. NO
where in the range Of national pur-
| poses Is the reward for conservation
Of a national resource so ample. No
where is the penalty OF neglect so
| threatening.
! WILL NOT BE SE,LF-SUPPORTlNG
| BY the fixed rate of increase In the
| past. We must count upon population
| of over oD0. go 0N0 in the United States IN
| the year 1880. The annual increase from
| natural growth is about one and one-hall
per cent each year. Adding for inmi-
| grafton 10000 a year, which is less thar
| three-quarters OF the figures reached in
| recent years, we shall have about 10000,
coo people in 1895 and at least 2oo"c,0
by the middle of the century. Where are
| they to go, how are they to be employed
| how fed how ena BLEED to earn a living
| The pressure of all nations upon the
waste places of the earth grows more in
tense as the last OF them are occupied
We are approaching the point whore all
our wheat product will he needed for oul
own issue and we shall cease to be an
exporter of grain. There is still some
| room in Canada, hut it will soon he filled
The relief will be but temporary Ou'
| own people, whose mineral resources " Il
| by that time have greatly diminished
must find themselves thrown back upon
the soil for a living. II continued abuse
of the land should make the next % years
as it has the last, what must be our out
| look?
Even the unintelligent are now coming
to understand that We cannot look TO our
| foreign trade for relief from future en-
| barrassment. Our total exports, about
one fourth in value of the products 9f
| our farms consist to the extent OF more
than 20 per rent. of articles grown on
the soil or directly sustained by IT, such
as live stock or made from soil products
| such as -four. or all the materials used
| ir manufacture in this country, ~ pei
! cent are furnished by tho soil, We shat
! have less and less of this agricultural
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

There are two old adges, Haste makes
waste" and make haste slowly" that
every one should employ when they I'M
dertake to cure a cough in few minutes
with prepa ra tons containing Morphine,
Opium, Chloroform or other opiates.
They may stop the cough and cause sleep
quickly, but they also dry up the secere-
tions and constipate leaving oft-tmes a
far worse trouble. Rydales Cough Elixir
is Guara mt eed under the Pure Food and
Drug Law to control no opiates or harm
full drugs Of any kind or cha ra cter, Think
about it when you or one OF the children
have a cough. j. w. O'SuIlivan. Stanley
& E1stcy of Winooski.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

may be Of untold value in the future
from the federal govern ment, then tho
federal government should put into
the grant a condition that 1t shall not
be grant in pcrpetuity. n there is
necessity for the grant then there
must be power to attach conditions n
the grant. Make II long enough SO
that the corporation shall have an am
pie material reward. The corporation
deserves it. Give an ample reward to
tho captain OF industry; but not an
'ndeterminate and indefinite reward
Put in provision that will enable the
next generation. that will enable our
children at the end Of certain speci
fed period to say what, in their judE
ment. should then be done with that
great natural power which is Of use
to the grantee only because the pco-
pie as whole allow him to use it. II
is eminently right that he should he
allowed to make ample profit from his
development of It; but make him pay
something for the privilege, and make
he grant for a fixed period. so tina,
when the conditions change as in all
proba bility they will change. our chill
drcn the nation OF the future. shal
have the right to determine the condi-
ton upon which that privilege shall
be enjoyed. In these cases the state
has not acted or cannot act therefore
] hold the nation should act. Where
the policy of advocate can be carried
out best by the state let II be carried
out by the STATE where il can he car
ried out best by the nation. let it he
| carried out by the nation. Ny concern
Is not with the academic side Of the
question deal with tho matter prac-
tically from the standpoint of true
popular interest; and therefore. my
desire is to employ indifferently either
the principle of States rights. or The
principle Of national sovereignty
whichever in given case will best
conserve the needs OF the people
The declaration. upon which the Presi
dents remarks were predicated, wer'
presented to the conference by Governo
Blanchard Of Louisiana, at the openin.
Of the session After reading it Mr.
| Blanchard stated that il proceeded upol
broad lines, and purposely avoided max
ing specific endorsements OF desired pro
iects or Legislation.
| It was upon the suggestion ~ Governo
Glenn of North Ca rolina that future con
fercnces should depend upon the ex
pressed desire Of two-thirds Of the gov
ernors that Governor Folk made tn
criticism which called forth the Presi
dents remarks above quoted.
The declaration was adop ed withou
dissent. after which the President intro
duced William J. Bryan, who received
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
Startling Warnings Given Con
ference of Governors at
Washington.
SOIL is BEING ROBBED.
Yield is Becoming Less Because of
Improper CultivatiOn.-J. J. Hill
Tells of Disappearing Resources
New York VIII Have No
Timber Left in 80 Years.


washington, May lA.-Startlins was the
warning sounded to-day at the conference
of the governors at the White House, of
I'll" danger the nation confronts in soil
waste and forest depletion, The governors
listened and talked and appiaudcd but
took no action. This is left for tomorrow,
the last day of the conference. The
RESOLUTIONS committee was in session all
day and VIII report Tomorrow.
president Roosevelt opened the morn
ing and afternoon sessions, which were
thereafter presided over by Gov. johnson
of Minnesota, and Gov Dcncen of Illinois.
respectively.
James j. Hi Of the Great Northern,
who led a long list Of speakers, dealt
sources He presented conditions respect
ing mineral, soil and forest, showing
Wanton waste in each instance, and
urged prompt remedial action.
SOL waste ana forest conservation re-
c"lV"d expert treatment by frof. I. &.
Chamberlain of Chicago and r. A. Long
Of Kansas city. Former Governor I'ardee
OF Can'ornla, read paper on grazing
ana STOCK raising ana a paper was read
FOR n. A. Jastro of California who was
taken III during inc DAY
secretary wilson met nearly res
PohSe 10 lalk on inc HllS'aNcS III
farming. ana inc renleo1es' Inc same
was ru,hous'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
PREACHERS MEETING IN JUNE.
Not How Cheap-But How Good.

A brick front painted with l.. & NJ.
Paint - years ago and not painted since
may be seen at AZ Bergen St. Brooklyn,
New York Paint with L.. & NJ. Bril-
liant Red and trim with Shaker Green
O: Whito.-The body won't need paint
ing in % years.
r f. Brown North Williston; 5. F..
Wilson, Fairfax; II. NJ Hull, Hinesburs;
+. Il. Bigwood, Winooski; +. II. FlagE
& Son. Richmond; w 5. Nay & Co,
Underhil; c. l. Hatch X Co, Water
bury.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
.EGRAPIIERS IN INDIA.
CIR

Actin pnn the recommendation Of
the t., raph committee, the Indian
govern at has Just authorized the EN-
ploymel OF women operators
Tho candidates must be between IS
and 20 years OF age and they must be
unmarried or widows. They must un-
dergo training OF twelve months In tho
telegraph training classes, during which
time they will receive SIS a month, the
same allowance that Is drawn by male
learners.
seleoted candidates on leaving the
training classes will be ON probation
for one year. Upon appointment they
will receive salaries varying from so
To SIS G, which are very large upon the
scale Of living expenses In india. There
will be pensions, with no liability to
transfer; but resignation will be compul-
sorry in the event Of marriage, Harper
Weekly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

wealth tn part with as popula ton IN
crea ses. And as to charging greatly ou
sale of manufactured products in tn
worlds markets. it is mostly a dream
We cannot finally compete there, except
ir few selected lines without A mate
rial lowering of the was scale at homo
nd a change in the national standa I'd OF
living which our people are not ready to
accept without a struggle. When capital
cannot find a profit there will be no
money for the payrolls Of an Improbable
business Doubtless as We grow We
shall buy more and sell more; but our
main dependence half a century ahead
must be upon ourselves. The nation can
no more escape the operation of that
Ia W than can the man. 1t is time to set
our house in order.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
KILLED COW AND SELF.
Peculiar Feature to suicide of Leroy
Unzcn of SwantOn.

Swanton, May l4-Lerov Iazer Of
Swan+on Center committed suicide ny
hanging early this morning. He had been
acting somewhat strangely all winter
and his mental trouble Of late had be-
come more marked. Certain business mat
tiers had weighed upon him and his wifs
had watched him closely for several
months. This morning he went to his
work. as usual, and not returning at tho
accustomed time. Mrs Iiazen went to
look for him She found that he had
hanged himself with a rope in the barn.
A peculiar circumstance. showing the
condition of Mr.. Hazens mind was the
fact that he killed his COW, and the body
of tho animal was found dead in the
harm with him. Mr.. Hazen was rs
years old and is survived by wife and
four small children.
The family came from North Hero
last fall and were living on what is
known as tho old Burncl farm.
PREACHERS MEETING IN JUNE.
st. Adams, May 1.-THE annual st.
Adams preachers district meeting
will be held this year in johnson,
June % and 80. The Rev. r. +. Lowe
Of this city, the Rev. William shaw
Of Enosburgh Falls. the Rev. ". +.
Douglas of Richford and the Rcv. q.
w Burke of Fairfax are the COM
rnittce in charge and are arranging a
program which viii include addresses
by the Rev. DR.. J. p. Brushinsham
and Prof. II. w Hill of Chicago
pecial evanEelistic services will be
held in this district from July IS to
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
CONSIDERABLE CENSORSHIP.

"Des your father know ] love you?"
mo. Papa isn't very well, and
we've kept II from him. Harper 5
Weekly
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
CLOSE Of FIRST
CONFERENCE
Governors of All the 46 States
Adopt Declaration of
Cooperation"
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
Executives Decide to Form Oue--Timc
Is Needed to Reveal Full Import
nnce of tho MeetinE-Sct PrO-
gram Ignored during the
Last Days Session


N'Sni"s'o''' May To- ne ''st co"ler-
tho Amer;can I.nlon ended today LIMO
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w. ~, '''s 81 P'o
FreSN DIT '''' ""''e i'ouS' LOT 'nf'c Jays
Na'no. oe SCI ior'r WIN 'c',,A'oA
prcc'S'on' i"dt i'S i'i''ne'ia'e ros'its arc
more 'hah ample Is 'ne expression o!
e'e'io'"' noo9'N''' WIZ "'o'S"t
'oou' ana ol INC governors WHO pd''''-
'a'e"'
ne Pr'h'e" '''or" "i ln' conference
"H"'h VIII I"ter re "NaIIaoi' 10 e'e'y
american nome vi" nc a 'o'nP'lat'i Oh
iacts' starting III tn'lr meaning con'inc-
ING IN 'heir unIN'rSal conclusion mat tho
states must act ana that the states ana
the haton must cooperate To 'he eno
that 10 the "hoIe p'"pie III 'he na'on
may accrue IN" IastnS pencht Oh 's
natural resources
BESIDES me compilation OF facts ny the
Experts ana the freely-expresscd opinion
II the governors, the conference leaves
AZ us permanent RECORD thousand
words Of ''declaraton' not a "declara-
.'p'' " '.u'p'''o'"'' ''' A>''A
c.,r ,.,r >,,Dr
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tain tho rovornors was NOT thwartod
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slse was tho d,ternipati,n ,f ,bo INV.
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DAY OF MANY FEATURES
or tho last dav the story is ono of
MANY features The SGT program was
swept aside. The President presided
.'.'' no 90
'p''''''' i'o ~ ~ ~ VIC P'''i'' III nv
who made nlai, tho rrovailinr fealinp,
mat thonybt and car, must he excrcised
for tho f,,,,r. -r,ho rre,.r,-, .n.rs
wore M, rrssortod ~. ,her will he
nr;r,od in tho norp,onont rocords 1,ber
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w au'"of''F Shou'o ne "''W. '''"eei
u'e states ana N'' na'o"' ne "an'eu
endorsement at each period |, was this:
THE ppEc,Dp>,1"c pL,NApEc
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

quilted by torrential rains, red and yell
low clay banks exposed where once
were fertile fields; and agriculture re-
duced because its main support has been
washed away Millions of acres, in places;
to the extent of one-tenth Of the entire
arabic area have been SO injured that no
industry and no care can restore them.
Far more ruinous, because universal
and continuing in its effects, is the process
of soil exhaustion. 1t is creeping over
the land from East to West. The
abandoned farms that are now the play
things of the city's rich or the game
preserves Of patrons of sport, bear wit
ness to tho melancholy change. New
Hampshire, Vermont. northern New
York. show long lists of them. In western
Massachusetts, which once supported a
1ourishing agriculture farm properties
are now for sale for half the cost of i'm
provements. Professor Carver of Har-
ward. has declared after a personal
examination of the country that "agri-
culture as an Independent industry, able
in itself to support community, does
not exist in the hilly parts of New Eng
land"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
AGRICULTURAL DECAY.

Tho same process Of deterioration is
affecting the farm lands OF western New
York, Ohio and Indiana, Where prices
Of farms should rise hy increase of
population, in many places they are fall
ing. Between 1850 and 100 tho land values
of Ohio shrank $50. O0N rO OFFICIAL in
vcstigation Of two counties in central
New York disclosed a condition of agr-
cultural decay In ono land was for sale
for about the cost Of improvements and
$50 vacant houses were counted In a
limited area. In the Other the population
in 1905 was nearly 40" less than in
lSlj
Practically Identical soil conditions
exist in Maryland and Virginia. where
lands sell at from SO to $50 an acre. In
a hearing before an industrial commits
sion, the chief of the bureau of soils of
the department Of agriculture said. "One
of the most mport rant causes of
deterioration. and | think | should put
this first Of ALL is tho method and sys-
tenn of agriculture that prevails through
ont these Stats. UnQucstionahly the soil
has been abused" Tho richest region of
the West is no moro exempt than New
England the South. Tho soil of the
West is being reduced in agricultural
potency by exactly the same processes
which have driven tn. farmer o. the
East, with all his advantage of nearneSs
TO markets, from the field
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
EXHAUSTION OF SOIL.
j. j. Hill shows an Approaching short
age of Tillahle Land.

In his address James j, Hill spoke %
the rapid exhaustion of our mineral re-
sources and then turned to the only re-
mainin;, resource of man upon this earth,
which is the soil itself. He said in part;
How are we caring for that, and what
possibilities does it hold out to the peo-
pie OF future support? We are only be-
ginning to feel the pressure upon the
land. The whole interior of this CONT
nent, aggregating more than 800, WOO U
acres, has been occupied by settlers with
in the last so years. What is there left
for the next 50 years? Excluding arid
and irrieahlc areas, the latter limited by
nature. and barely enough of which
could be- made habitable in each year TO
furnish IA farm for each immigrant fam
lily, the case stands as follows; In 1906
the total unappropriated public lands In
the United States consisted Of 792, 900, O0
acres or this area the divisions OF
| Alaska. Arizona, California, Colorado
| Idaho, Montana Nevada, New Mexico
and Wyoming contained 195,7D,0N acres
OF surveyed and 500, 100000 acres of unsur-
veycd land. Little of Alaska is fitted for
general agriculture while practically al
of the rest Is scmi-arid land available
only for grazing or irrigation. We have
subtracting these totals, 80, OO0 600 acres OF
surveyed and &c, 5000 acres of unrur,
| veyed land as our actual renal ninl
stock And HO00,0no acres were disposed
OF in 1907 How long will the remainder
last? No longer can we say that'"Uncl'
Sam has land enough to give us all &
| farm"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
RENT FOR WATER POWER.

rent for water power My position is
simply that where privilege which
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

] have dwelt upon the conservation
of farm resources because of the COM
mandins importance of this industry
and because OF its relation to our flu
ture. Nearly 30 per cent OF our people
are engaged directly in agriculture.
But all the rest depend upon it, In the
last analysis, commerce, manufactures,
our home market, every form OF ac-
tivity runs back to the bounty of the
earth by which every worker, skilled
and unskilled, must he fed and by
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
QUALITY is FAILING.

Equally threatening is the change in
quality. There are two ways in which
the productive power of the earth is
lessened first by erosion and the sweep
ing away OF the fertile surface into
streams and thence to the sea and sec
ond by exhaustion through wrong
methods OF cultivation The former
process has gone far. Thousand Of acres
in the East and South have been made
unfit for tillage North Carolina was, "A
century ago, one of the great agricultural
States of the country and one of the
weathiest. To-day as you ride throcsh
the South you see everywhere land
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

When the most fertile land in the world
produces so much less than that of poorer
quality elsewhere, and this low yield
shows tendency to steady decline, the
situation becomes clear. We are robbing
he soil in an effort to get the largest
cash returns from each acre OF ground
in the shortest possible time and with
the least possible Ia Dor This soil Is not
mere dead matter, subject TO any sort
OF treatment with impunity. Chemically
1t contains elements which must be
present in certain proportions for the sup
port vegetation. Physically, it is made
up of matter which supplies the prln'
cipal plant food, This food, with its
chemical constituents in proper ad-
mixture is furnished by the dccomposi'
ton OF organic matter and the dis
Indignation of mineral matter that pro-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-22
THE OLD ANDES B4LKS.
Returns TO Port after Staring on
JFay to Ships Grareyord.

After stcaminE for two days on her wav IN a
sbp's graveyard ia Genoa where she was 10 have
hoen broken Up for scrap iron the old Atlas
steamer Andes put back TO port dropping anchor
nf Tonlpkinsville late last night.
When the Andes. which is thirty-three years old
cicarcd port on Tuesday, it was said she carried
toe body oc the captains daughter-in-law who died
here two year ago, when the skipper and his son
came 70 New York take TO the scrap hean in
italy The old United States army transport Sedr-
wick
Al that TINE it is said Captain Aless his son
snd the latteT's wife. came TO New York on one
of the italian steamers and remained here several
r7onths pending the purchase and repairs of the
transport, which was lying in South Brooklyn
While patching up the Sedgwick the sons wife
died and buried in a Jersey City cemetery
Several days after her death the old transport
started for Genoa The captain his son finally
came here negotiate for the purchase of the
Andes and they decided 10 have the body ex-
huned and transported 10 Genoa on that steamer
The Andes originally the Lagos and is an
iron steamship OF 1.l97 tons. Her plates are cx-
coedirgly thin in places. and although she was
overhauled, il was considered hazardous under
taking 10 take her across the Atlantic in the mid
Gle OF winter
After leaving the Atlas Line service she was en-
gagged in freight ana cattle traffic between Mexico
and West Indian ports.
TIE Andes was purchased for Marchesini Broth
ers Of Genoa, for about S5oo 1t is said after
removing her engines, boilers and fittings all of
which bring good price, a big profit is realized
On the iron IL the huh. She Will proceed her
wsy 10 Italy in a few days after further repairs
have been made