Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-08
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confront the United states. ls Whcther
il IS 10 the boys interest TO leave
farming community where the chances
AR. that IN Ave or ten years he can own
a valuable farm. "or whether ne should
90 60 the great cities and become the
future motorman and street-car con
ductor"
These are the strons words Of warn
inc uttered by President Chapman OF
tho Minnesota Bankers Association.
The farmer says the railroad mag
nate. James j. Hill has been discoui-
aged by seeing every other Industry
preferred to his. Tho policy Of stimu-
lating these by legislation has nat
urally tended to tempt the Intelligent
energetic and ambitious into other oc-
equations
IN the introduction Of the census OF
1870. relating 10 the agricultural inter
est. we read allusions TO such notorious
facts as corn selling IN New England
eat 80 cents and being burned for fuel
IN Iowa wheat selling at si.So in New
York and for a. cents in Minnesota
beef bringing 81 a hundred on the hoof
In the east while cattle are being
slaughtered for the hides in Texas"
such Inequalities. Mr.. Hill clearly
shows. are unknown today The per
lection of our transportation system
has made a market accessible to every
farmer. and carries his produce at the
lowest rates I'm the world. His life has
become more comfortable and desir-
able. But the increased cost OF living
bears most hardly upon him. while II
cntices his children to the centers where
they think that the larger income now
found necessary may be won more easi-
~. And while the enhanced price ot
grain may induce him 10 enlarge his
wheat acreage, Il docs not lead him TO
more careful tillage.
Civilization. in Mr.. Hill's UNIQUE way
OF putting 1t. is mostly the story OF
the triumph OF the human stomach In
it's struggle for food equal 10 the work
OF physical and mental evolution" and
every one Of tho great nations of an
tiq,hty guided It's foreign relations and
directed it's invasions and conquests
with view to obtaining an adequate
fopd supply
The problem now confronts our own
country. which requires a yearly in
crease of $1,000, 600 bushels OF wheat to
feed the growing populatlon-an in
crease that cannot be maintained by
present methods Of agriculture.
American agriculture, VIGOROUSLY de-
fective. yields only half tho average
per acre that D. obtained In England
and Germany upon inferior sOiE ana
only by bringing new land under Guilt
walton have we somewhat compensated
for the direction of the older farms by
the thronging OF tho younger genera
ton into the cities.
Mr.. hin shows that We support. in
round numbers, ninety millions Of peo-
pie on three million square miles Of
land He estimates that we should
be able TO support 100 per square mile
as easily as 30, and then we should
have but a fraction OF the density Of
population Of Denmark with l6i in
habitants per square mile, Holland
with 44s or our own state Of Rhode
Island with 4OI IN 1900 He admits
that the education OF whole people
in right methods Of tillage Is a stu
pendous task: that IL took England
nearly hfty years 10 DO this, with
powerful agencies al command and
with control over her farmers
through leasehold conditions that mo-
one in this country possesses. Yet she
has raised her average wheat yield
from i2 10 IS 10 upwards Of 30 bushels
per acre. IT. he argues. 1t shoul,
take us hfty years. we would by that
time probably nave doubled our popula'
ton also. and barely kept pace win
our necessities But We have not ye
accomplished the mere proliminoyiei
Of such q process
The education Of the farmer Tor thii
purpose is on a par with the importsnc
~ tho public school The present agri
cultural colleges are not sufficient
They do much for the boys and girl
who attend them, but as MI Hil put
AZ IT NA hlN' NINHAtAANH NA tNA AfNf ~
cultural colleges were sent out as mis-
siouaries 20 the farm. thete would mo-
Doe enough Of them 10 Do the work
one farmer estimates that not one
half Of one per cent ~ the farmer
of his state are IN touch with the agri
cultural experiment station The lei
million of farmers win require al
enormous teaching force.
The farmer requires instruction q
how 90 prepare a field properly for IA
seed how 90 select aud where Co 90
tho seed that will yield the best o.
turn. how 20 cultivate each crop. ho'
90 combine stock raising With tnlsgf
ana how 90 rotate hts crops and pre-
serve unimpalrod the richness Of hi
soil. on his own farm with the ma
teI1al ANA the object lesson befof
HIM under instruction that comes wit
public authority ana sanction ho WI
De- pupil apt 10 learn But be- cal
not 50 90 the agricultural college.
ihey must 30 10 him.
Prof fcnero. Ia HE story of a
Greatness and Decline ~ Rome d
tributes 20 tho Increased cost ~ IN
ing the agricultural depression Of ltal
the Euip OF her peasantrY. and the "a
trcae o. All clakaes that followed A.