The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-06-04
The Why Of High Prices
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and manufacturing, but their working
classes are not as comfortable as ours
Every State should organize to con-
serve fertility OF its SOILS The Depart
n1ent OF Agriculture would gladly CO.
operate with all OF them. This depart
ment has corps oil scientists that could
be made useful in this regard. There
is no kind OF conservation that COM
pares at all in importance with SOL
conservation, while all are important
We are late in beginning, but high
prices are impelling and insistent from
every standpoint
WHAT DEMONSTRATORS DID.
Secretary Wilson then explained
how the Department OF Agriculture
combated the boil weevil in the South
by picking four hundred good farmers
and sending them around the country
to demonstrate to the other cottc-
planters who were neither SO intelli
gent nor so well informed OH this sub
ject, the care and methods necessarj
for annhilating the pest.
I'VE conducted thirty thousand de-
monstrations last year" the Secretary
continued, ION thirty thousand South
ern farms. In the same year we got
twelve thousand boys under twelve
years to grow an acre of corn eacl i
We reached the fathers through
children. The South never grew {
much corn before. Next year it wi
grow three times as much.
Now, the prize we gave TO the hi S
who produced the most corn IRON
acre in his State may appear to you /
a humorous light We gave him trl
to Washington to see the PRESIDED
and the Capitol and the legislatoI
who hold forth there. | personal
gave to each one OF the four boz
chosen diploma And those bow {
with the money they earned, will
able to attend an agricultural collea s.
Congress doesn't scold me II il
spending money. 1t scolds me for nj
asking for more money. They say | t,
too stingy to ask fur enough. I'm G W
ing to take the hint and ask Tor more
NEW works. GRAIN PRODUt n
TON.
Commissioner Pearson said he wisl :,
ed the Legislature at .Albany wou' W
scold him for not asking for MOI Il,
money. But he painted rather ro: u
picture OF the revival OF interest in a! \,
riculture in the State. He showed AZ
statistics that New York acreage II III
der cultivation was actually produci' -.
more grain an acre to-day than it d VI
thirty years ago. The State Cole!
OF Agriculture. he sad had tiity-i' l.
students enrolled in 1905 and tod
had 1000. r.
Assistant Secretary Gable point,, :,
to the work OF The Department
Commerce and Labor in provid'i ~.
New York farmers with immigra w,
labor. Professor Milton With -
chief OF the Bureau OF Soils at Wash,
ington, said the soils oi New York
were as well fitted for intensive cult
yation under modern methods as they
had been Tor general agriculture NV
der pioneer methods.
The conference adopted resolutions
emphasizing the necessity oi an abr
cultural revival in the Empire State
1t also empowered the chair to appoint
a committee OF seventeen. with PreSi
dent Brown as chairman, to plan a
permanent organization for the en-
enlargement OF farming. Presidents
Underwood oi the Erie. 'rruesdalc OF
the Lackawanna. Thomas oi the lie
high Valley and Peters oi the Long Is
land Railroad are me mberS oi this
committee.