The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-07
PINCHOT WEEPS.
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steps were promptly taken to breed
| hogs extensively so that the people
might produce their meats.
This work is done by direction of
good southern farmers selected by
agents of the department of agricul-
| ture. There are many excellent farm
ers In the southern states who only
need organizing to bring that section
to the front as a producing unit of AL
farm crops. This may be said of all
localities and of all OF our states, each
has large minority of good farmers,
and in the development of any state
along agricultural lines, something inn
peratively necessary, the practical
| farmers of the state are the right men
to organize for it's progress
Grazing Lands Overstocked.
1.-The grazing lands of the public
domain are being steadily reduced to
unproductiveness by overstocklng,
which results in reduced production
of meats and animal products. While
public lands are held for the home
steader it is difficult to suggest rem
edy that would not interfere with the
policy of ultimate settlement by the
| homeseeker. The tendency of con-
gress to give larger areas to the set
tier seems to be in the right direction.
1.-THE most important farm conser-
walton is undoubtedly the preparation
of farm youth for better farm man
agement. We have inherited our sys-
tenn OIL 0QuCdIlOn LHdl lOOhCu " tilC
farm for the best material to rein
force the professions and the indus
tries. Education has, therefore, pre-
pared young people for everything
but farm life. The American congress
saw this half a century ago and pro-
vided for agricultural colleges in all
the state; these colleges have grown,
and are preparing teachers, hopeful
task, in the nature of things. 1t is
difficult to change or materially modi-
fly the education of a people, inter
woven with their history, their indus
tries, their literature, their traditions
and religion. 1t Is being done, how
ever, in our country. Research is ac-
cumulating facts along the life lines
of our people. The people read the
publications treating field and forest,
the soil and it's crops, the animal and
its well being.
Irrigation and dry land farming. new
bread and fodder plants, the growing of
sugar beets last year to make our 500 900
tons of sugar, the prospect of using
the carbon dioxyde of our atmosphere
to make all our sweetening, the devel-
opment of rice on the gulf coast to
equal our consumption. the study of
tobaccos of home growth to save the
nations money, the exploration of the
old world for plants to increase the
food of the people and add to its vari-
ETY.; these and thousand other activi-
ties that affect agriculture the people
, read about and approve.
Twenty million pieces of literature
relating to the farm were sent out from
the department of agriculture during
the last fiscal year. The state agricul-
tural colleges all contribute to the vol
ume of printed matter relating to the
farm.
There are well known methods of
farm management practiced by our best
| farmers that bring good results and
well known methods and practices that
reduce fertility and render operations
| on the farm improbable. The domestic
| animal has been associated with profit
able farming from the earliest times of
which we have authentic records The
pasture on which the animal grazes is
| the best known method Of restoring the
! necessary physical condition that is i'm
paired by cultivation, as well as the
| source of the cheapest production.
when the farmer desires a heavy
crop of any kind he plows up a pas
ture and seeds down another Con-
tinual cultivation and use of CONNER
cial fertilizers without systems of rota-
ton or domestic animals is advised by
some latter day venturerS in agricul-
1 ture but the results are not perma-
nently good and where this method
has had long trial it has brought dis
appointment, notably in the cotton
growing states.
"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 our farms, but that which
falls upon the highlands and now flows
| idly to the seas in all sections of our
country