The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
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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
emphasized another important duty in
this connection, and that is the protec-
ton of our forests and settlers from
fires. 1t is a well known fact that
enough timber has been destroyed by
fire within the last four months to pay
TOR 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
rions 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 well when the soil refuses to re-
spond to his labor.
''The people of the older nations take
care of sell fertility as 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. 8
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 &C.
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.
''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 a
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