The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-09-22

Intelligent farming does not merely
| guarantee good dividends on a farm
| investment. but it builds good roads
| to save cost of transportation, consol-
| idates rural schools where intelligent
| farming, industry and home economics
can be taught by precept and ex-
| ample. beauties the home and its
| surroundings and fills it with all the
| attractions that elevate manhood and
| womanhood. teaches the younger gen.
Grafton the dignity as well as reward
of farm labor and inspires the laborer
with the hopeful expectations of a
bright future
drainage, farm settlement, good
| roads. forestry, transportation, indus
trial education, minerals, cheap heat
and power resources are all important
| factors in the conservation movement.
practical and scientific reforesta-
ton should convert the lands insult
ed for farming into forests so that
every acre would produce revenue and
! furnish some necessity Of life. The
| dry season of 1910 has particularly
emphasized another important duty in
this connection, and that is the protec.
| ton of our forests and settlers from
| fires. 1t is we'll known fact that
enough timber has been destroyed by
| fire within the last four months to pay
for the adequate protection of all our
! forests. for a period of ten years or
more, not to mention the great loss of
human life, which in itself imposes
upon the states and nation the duty
of protection. This congress should
be instrumental in stirring public SEN
timent to such an extent that the va
| rious legislatures and congress would
take immediate steps to stop this
needless and expensive waste"
SECRETARY WILSON ON
SOIL CONSERVATION.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
| spoke on Farm Conservation" He
said:
"The most important feature of farm
conservation is the soil The farmer
prospers while the soil responds to his
work and yields good crops; he ceases
to do we'll when the soil refuses to re.
spond to his labor.
"The people of the older nations take
care of soil fertility as a matter of
| prime necessity and long ago ascer.
| tanned the proper succession of crops,
their relation to the soil and the feed
ing of men and animals. They knew
the soil must be fed and the proper
physical conditions to maintain and
learned from experience how to do it.
During the short history of our coun-
try we have had new soils to draw
upon when exhaustion resulted from
the robbing process, and much of the
nations prosperity is the equivalent Of
what the soil has lost Our people
have been well fed, and until recently
they have been cheaply fed This has
been due in part no doubt to the oc.
cupancy of land easily obtainable as
soon as the older refused to yield
abundantly and is one of the prime
| causes of farm assertions that are
now attracting so much attention.
1.-THE federal government is expend-
| ing large sums to irrigate more land,
which is wise, but the amount of wa
ter impounded is small compared with
the volume that flows to waste In
recent visit to the Mountain states
saw that the most advanced localities
are every year making more reservoirs
to hold winter and spring flows of wa
tiers that go free of mans restraint to
the ocean. The nation, the state and
private enterprises have ample fields