The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-11-28
PROGRESS IN FARMING.
Address Of e. T. Galloway Befor the
National Farm Land Congress.

The following is Il synopsis of the adj
dress of E. 7. Galloway, chief of the
bureau of plant industry of the depart
ment Of agriculture, delivered at the
National Farm Land Congress, held i'll
Chicago on Nov. 20:
"a great change is taking place in
farming conditions in this country, due
chiefly to the westward movement of n
large clement of the farming popula-
ton The national department of agri-
culture is endeavoring. i'll a great va
riety of ways. to aid those who are de
pendent on the land for a livelihood,
particularly those who are taking part
in the opening up of new agricultural
regions This latter class of our popu
lation is doing more than any other
class to meet the nation - future de-
mand upon the soil, especially when we
consider that OF the millions of farms
now in operation in recognized farming
communities. fully 30 per cent are ae-
tually decreasing in proiuctiveness, due
to tne unremitting and exhausting drain
upon the land.
1.-The bureau Of plant industry of the
national department now has in opera
ton twenty-three experimental stations
scattered throughout the vast regioa
! Just west of the Tooth meridian and ex-
tending to the Rocky mountains, popu-
IariV known as the plains
1.-THE problem in crop production I'M
der the trying conditions of this region
are being slowly but surely solved by
scientific experimentation. The states
are actively cooperating in this work
through their agricultural experiment
stations, and ii is the policy of the
departments TO seek and encourage the
fullest cooperation wherever possible,
both from public agencies and from pri
vatc individuals
E'In the South a widely different but
equally serious situation exists. The
coming of the dreaded cotton boil wee
vii into this region brought home to the
southern farmer with peculiar force
the fact that he must follow new ana
improved agriculture IN order to win
his fight against the weevil The one
crop farm In the South ia doomed to
give place to diversified farming and
the department. of agriculture, for sew
oral years. has been preaching this doe
trine by means Of extensive eo-opera-
tive demonstrations with representative
Southern farmers These demonstra-
tions have met with astounding success
in bringing about realization of the
i necessity fer and desirability of i'm
proved farm practices. Not only the
farmers. but their youngest sons, have
been interested in this work, and it is
also being adopted in many of our
southern schools.
.SThe department has found that one
of the most valuable means OF bringing
/ about Improvement in farm conditions
IS through the detailed study of the
practices followed on representative
farms throughout the country. and the
application of these studies to large
number of farms, where a lesser degree
of success has been attained This
work is conducted on large scale AMI
has proved very successful as well as
popular.
Another method of aiding the
farmer in increasing the productiveness
of his farm Is through the Introduction
of new crops and the improvement Of
the existing varieties by breeding and
selection. The world is being searched