Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-07
ORANGE MAN IS
ON CONSERVATION
CONGRESS BOARD
Freerick W. Kelsey Named on
Resolutions Committee to In
dorse Roosevelt Ideas.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. with the
big features of the National Conser-
walton Congress over with, namely, the
addresses of President Taft and for
mer President Roosevelt, the delegates
expressed their determination today to
get down to business. The meetings OF
Monday and Tuesday were fairly lost
in welcoming the distinguished speak
ers, leaving the balance of the program
TO all but empty benches.
Chairman Pardee, OF the resolutions
committee, called the committee to
order today before the congress re-
sumed. The membership of the COM
nittee is said to indicate that the plat
form to be recommended to the con-
vention will be strongly along the lines
of national control, as favored by
Colonel Roosevelt and Clifford Pinchot
The committee included the following:
George C. Pardee, California, chair
man; Cyrus C. Babb, Maine; Mr..
Meekins, Maryland; E. A. Starp,
Massachusetts; Francis King, Michi-
gan; Frederick w. Kelsey, of Orange,
N. J.; j. S. Whipple New York; Charles
l.. Pack Ohio; M p. McCraig, Penn.
sylvania; H. A. Border, Rhode Island,
and l. c. White, West Virginia.
Addresses by j. ]. Hill, Senator Bev-
eridge and Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson were on today's program.
Secretary Wilson spoke in part as
follows
During the short history of our
country we have had new soils to draw
upoD when exhaustion resulted from
the robbing process, and much of the
nations prosperity is the equivalent of
what the soil has lost.
Manufactures increased and pros
pered greatly during the last half CEN
tury because food was cheaper in our
country than in any one with which
we competed. Food is cheap no longer
Population has increased faster than
production from the soil.
1.-The office of water in growing plants
is comprehended when we realize that
from 800 to 800 pounds of water are re-
quired by the plant to enable it to
make one pound of dry matter, and
that a shock of corn standing in the
field for weeks after it Is cut has from
25 to 40 per cent. of moisture.
"The most important farm conserva-
ton is undoubtedly the preparation of
farm youth for better farm manage
ment.
THE Federal government is expend-
ing large sums to irrigate more land,
which is wise, but the amount of water
impounded is small compared with the
volume that flows to waste.
1.-THE lands of the mountain States
are, with little exception, very rich in
plant food, and while water continues
to escape in such large quantities it
will pay to turn them on these lands
and reap the heavy crops that certain
ly follow.
"If our country is to grow and de-
velop as patriotic people hope we must
conserve the fertility of our soils and
the moisture that is precipitated, not
only on cur farms. but that which falls
upon the highlands and now flows idly
to the seas in all sections of our coun-
try"
Edward B. Hines, the Chicago lum-
herman, whose appointment as chair
man of the credentials committee was
opposed by the Illinois delegation be
cause of gossip connecting his name
with the money alleged to have figured
in theselection of United States Senator
Lorimer. said today that he would not
resign the chairmanship under fire.
Meanwhile President aBker, presi-
dent of the Congress, acting under the
impression that Mr. Hines had with
drawn. announced the appointment Of
G. e. Condra, of the University of
| Nebraska. and there the matter for the
present rests.
Frederick w. Kelsey. named in the
foregoing dispatch, is nursery stock
dealer in New \ ork, and his home ad-