The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-09
DM LAND SCIENCE
HOW Is Ever Increasing popuIa.
tIon OF Country to Be Fed2
''.en eotanist Says Scientific Methods
VIII Create Crops and Systematic
intelligent Work win Pro.
duee Varieties.

History shows the population q, N.
United states to have doubled every
90 years II history repeats Itself
Ailerlca VIII have In 1910 (31 years
uencel, population of 200 900. 900 neo.
PIE. How are they to be fed? Tho
p.ooielh stares one in the face as It
mas no other generation. The read.
lily accessible humid productive lands
opeil TO the past generations, are gone,
mere Is no longer an unoccunied
west to go to, said !. H. shenperd
OF the North Dakota Agricultural col.
'ege IN an address before a dry farm
congress- The Philippine Islands.
Honolulu, Cuba and Mexico are avail.
hpie, but they are not attractive tn
most Americans, either on account ~
forms of government, climate or the
race OF people occupying them. This
condition will face men long before
their days of active work are over. and
the work in this dry land experiment
line Is as well calculated to meet that
emergency as any that is being prose.
cuted at the present time. There ia
Q vast stretch Of territory which the
Dry Land Experiment association ia
covering that will be added to the
productive lands of the country-there
is stretch of land beyond the one
we are now considering which will
support families by making the farm
unit larger and there is a belt OF coun.
try east Of US that will produce much
more by following the better cultiva-
ton and moisture conservation plans
which the members of this organiza.
ton are teaching.
Your problems are as I see them
chiefly the economic use OF moisture,
the addition Of humus, and the proven.
ton Of drifting by winds. Your loss
OF fertility is meager compared with
that in humid districts as It Is not lost
by teaching. You have the advantage
az good curing season and should be
able to turn out products OF excellent
color and quality.
|
the Dutch botanist, made to his peo-
pie Of what this systematic American
movement to develop the dry lands OF
this western country was going to pro-
duce in the way Of material results
should encourage you. He laid the
map of Germany on this western coun
try to show how large a territory II
is He put the plat of Holland down
on the north end of California and
turned 1t end over end down that state
to show how large the territory Is
compared with their own. He Their
gave his people strong lecture o.
precaution against carelessness In Sc
lecting, growing, handling and pack
ing their fruits and vegetables, telling
them that the Americans are attack
ing the problem in such systematic
and scientific way, that 1t Is only q
question of a few years until theil
European home markets will be
usurped by American citizens with
American products.
DO not mind the plats of the Grea
American Desert In your biographies
he writes, these people are making
plants to suit their requirements ant
that territory must all be figured in al
coon as sufficient labor is available t.
properly work that land. Scientific
methods will create the crops which
will grow and systematic intelligen
work will produce the varieties II
plant them" He laid stress with then
on the fact that the American effor
is scientific, systematic and fostere'
. by government aid and direction. "Th'
United States" he said, has frui
men in Europe today studying thei
market requirements and he pre-
diets that the time will soon be a
hand when the Dutch fruit grove
will meet strong competition from
across the sea.