Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07

to the great cities that poyes;ty seems, to be trans
porting itself to the cities and those who are hftl
in the country are now beginning to reap their re-
ward in the high prices that are prevailing gener-
ally for the products of the spill. While sugar
does seem an exception to this rule, yet rice, and
the great cereal crops, are both bringing re-
muneratiye prices and the high prices prevailing
in the markets for practically every agricultural
product must necessarily have their beneficial
effect upon the welfare of the producer.
70 this wonderful advancement in agriculture
and to this great softening Of the rough edges of
agricultural life by promoting in every direction
the use OF mechanical devices, driven by animal,
steam and gasoline power, nothing has attributed
more than the works Of the experiment stations
throughout the United States. The whole
force constitutes practically an army of we'll edu-
Gated men, thoroughly informed in the specialties
in which they are engaged and all interested d.
.rectly and comparatively by their own personal
ambitions in bringing about the best results that
are possible. Such work as this has developed
the manufacturing. commercial, transportation
and banking interests of the country; as we'll as
the various phases Of so-called professional life.
In other words. agriculture as!ccme 70 take con.
|spicuous place among the industries of the coun-
try, not because it employs so many persons, but
because those engaged in it are far better
educated than such persons were a few decades
ago and. agriculture is coming to be, a profession,
las much as chemistry, medicine or law.
Not many years ago two-thirds of the people of
the United States were engaged: in agriculture.
The civil war withdrew so many hundreds Of
thousands of persons from agriculture that those
remaining learned, how to carry on agricultural
work with greatly reduced forces. The attrac-
lions of city life have drawn hundreds of th0us-
ands from the pursuit of their youth and now Mr.,
James J. Hill, the. famous railroad man of the
Northwest, says that against two-thirds Of the
people earning their living directly from the land
some years back, now not over one-third are en-
gagged in so doing, and this ohle-thifd of the~muc,
abused class Of. agriculturisss,, abused. years cagp
because of their lack of knowledge are now abused
because of the s%o-called exorbitant prices that
they, are getting for their stap!e crops Of the land,
estimated BY the Secretary of Agriculture; to
amount. to over eight thousand millions :of dollars
for this year. With wheat at 81. Is a >bushel ::Shd
Ecorn at about 80 cents, we can estimate what the
proceeds would be of, our expected crop Of over
lthareeeI millions Of bushels of corn, six hundred and
sixty millions of bushels of wheat and eleven Sand
ofe..foufth milion"bales'o III. ccttois- .CetN''s liking
and %SihSeaat and. cotton cohenext. 80 s,,.sio"a $.
These magnificent results sui il: aigrieeultgrt have
been brought aboatby the wonderful foresight, Of
Congressman Hatch in his persistent advocacy anc
final success with his now famous experiment sta,
ton Hatch BIZ" james Wilson the Secretary q
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for so many years. has beer
holding this ve%ry.important post under so many
succeeding Administrations. has also been one O
the. most Il important factors in the recent. develop
rnentrof agriculture, in the United States. In thi
connection we believe that we. ought also to men
tit05inf Secretary Coburn of the Kansas State, Boar'
Of AlggENiicplltture who has been devoting himself t,
the promotion and the good of agriculture with al
Of his great ability, energy and integrity until hi
name has. become a household word Throughout
the entire country. Secretary 'Coburn ydeclipe'
the appointment by the governor of his state a
senator, to represent his state in Washington, be
lieving as. he did that he could do. more good t
his people at home than he could by the, adyocac
Of their interests in Washington.
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The immediate application. Of. all this to our agri
cultural conditions in. Louisiana is the fact nov
apparent to salmost everyone, that it is only by in
tense agriculture that we can win success il gu
life's industrial battle. ~. J,