Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-13
IT'S BUT DEMAND
AGAINST SUPPLY
GREAT PROBLEM IN AMERICA Is
HOW TO INCREASE SOIL
FERTII1TN.

Agnes c. Laut in Colliera Weekly.
II there is twice as great demand
for wheat as there Is supply, it means
Just one of two things to you, whoever
YOU are or wherever you liVe--you are
going to pay twice as much for your
loaf of bread or else YOU are going to
receive a loaf but half as large for
the same price; and that is where the
gospel of new methods on the farm
| touches YOU, right N your everyday
household economy and weekly bilhs.
If good methods can produce twice
and three times as much wheat at less
cost of labor and money, then yOu--
the consumer-will not feel the
squeeze of a shortage.
II Is the same with every item on
the household bills that comes from
the farm. You are paying eXtortion-
ate prices for your household supplies
because there is greater demand than
supply, because we In the United
states raise only small averages Of
food products, while European copn-
tries raise high averages. If scientific
methods were universal instead of eX-
ceptional, you would not be so acutelY
conscious that population is increasing
faster than foodstulfs. You would not
he frantically seeking explanations as
20 why the cost of living ,has increased
ont vi all proportion to increase of
income.
Considering how much greater rs de
mand than supply, how much faster
population has grown than foodstuffs,
how much more numerous the mouths
are than the potatoes, it is not sur
pr dng that the foremost thinkeri
have declared that the great problem
before America today Is how To in
crease the fertility Of soil, how to IN
crease farm products as fast as popu-
laton: and that resolves itself into IN
Creasng the use of scientific meth
DDS Scientific methods have increas-
ed the Yield of potatoes from 80 BUSH
els 10 600 of wheat from 1 bushels
20 40, Of corn from 90 10 40 and 90,
and Of butter and milk from $40 a
head To $500 and 5000. II scientific
methods only doubled the averages OF
farm products; American farms would
be paying a yearly dividend equal to
the capital stock of the steel trust.
All through the corn belt of the
Middle West and the wheat belt of the
Northwest, railway presidents Offered
trains free TO carry the agricultural
specialists out through the farming
country 10 lecture on the new methods
distribute samples Of better seed and
demonstrate better dairy methods.
"Gcppel wheat trains" and gospel
corn specials and gospel Oat eX-
cursions" ran Through all these states
preaching the new methods and show
ing proof of the preachment in yields
double and treble the average Profess
sor Holden of Iowa became "a corn
evangelist before he came 60 Wash
ington: Wiilett Hays was "a wheat
evangelist I'm Minnesota. In the
South. where conditions were worse,
in fact as about as bad as they could
be and leave a farmer alive at all.
Doctor Knapp realized that the bur
den and desolation Of poverty stricken
farmers fell heaviest on the farmers
wife Families win not succeed on
farms II the women are wrethched;
and Doctor Knapp had a car fitted out
with n sample sanitary kitchen just as
cheaply rigged as the poverty-strlcken
kltchon. but fitted with every mex
pensive device as TO water and sink
and milk and cooking that would save
labor and make for health, This sam
pie demonstration kitchen IS still go-
Gng On its missionary tour OF the
south: and when II Is realized that
many poor farmers In the South have
neither COWS nor chickens fruit nor
vegetables. IL may be believed that
"gosped Kitchen Is voice Of the
preacher crying In the wilderness