Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-08-12
ROBB|NG THE SOIL
IS WORST EVIL
OF FARMING IN
THIS COUNTRY
Conservation of This Resource
is Special Object of Con-
gress to Meet This Year III
Kansas City.
JAMES J. HILL WILL
PRESENT CONDITIONS



Kansas cts, No. Aug ~
When .u. most lcttil, land in tn"
world produces SEQ much less thuu
that oi poorer quality cl-,N mere. and
this lo,, Ni"ld SHOWS t.nd-u., Co..
ward steady decline, tn. situation p'.
comes clear W. tr, ruhniug Co.,.
suIl That statement mad, p, pr.s-
idout JAMES J. Hll uf the Greet
Northern railway tells u,yiN Vh.'
~, principal subject OF discussion
win 81, ct Co.. National Conservation
congress Geo 10, held bee Kpps1. C,.N
september 90 tu - Cous.r,utpg ut
tu. soil VIII DO, the main pu' ubso Dol.
the mr"tn- u ST. Paul uJ t"Ir
the main -u'i.,t Vos Publ. Uanja
,u, YEAR previous 50 WAS Forrest
Conservation This time ia, meet.
ing be- u,us n,lJ 900 tho heart OF th,
agricultural country and saving tho
Soil b. tu p, tu, uu, important topic.
Mr. Ull who certainly b. studying
tgrigultur, from the dollars un I
cents standpoint as president uf fh
great RAILWAY system. hu- mad g
stud, CO.. what boo calls Soil Abuse,
som, ui th, result. uf investigations
that be- hts been responsible fur DO
the line are best given boz mss own
words lIr Says.
TAX, th, cas-, of wheat ,., miu-
stay of vinglr.crur abuse. Man, off
Hs rau remember when N,V York
was the great wheat prudu.ing gnt.
of The union TN, a,,mg, yi,ld 90
wheat per Jrr, iu Sew York fcr DO,
last ten years was about Us bushels.
For the first five years Of that Io-
wear u'riod 70 was lNI bushels. mi
for tho last five wears ~ bush ia.
Farther west. Kansas takes high rauk
as "a wheat producer. It, average
Yield per acre for IN, sam, ten years
was 1875 bushels For tb, first tive
yours % was 1912. and for the last
rive l-.N W. perceive here the
working OF O. uniform law iudrppud
CIV pf location, ot soil CT of climate.
~ is IN, law 81 diminishing return
du" Co soil destruction Apply thi,
tu th, country go large ana 10 reduce,
agriculture tu the condition of % buur
| whose dvpusiturs are steadily draw.
ing out nor, money than they put In
According to the last census IN,
average annual product per acrr of
the farms ~ th, N hole United state,
was worth SllJN. n is litth NOR,
/ than % rospcctahl. rental n conn
| inuuitlc- vh'r" 90, sui is properly
cared for ard mad, Geo give a reason.
able return Tor cultivation Their,
tr. but two states In tb, union who's,
total V1lu, OF farm products was oyri
u HIrH
great state ~ Illinois gave bat Sass
aud Minnesota showed only tNTi
| No discrimination attaches e. thcs,
| figures, where an are so much u
fault Nature has given ip us co.,
most valuable possession ever com.
inittrd To- man II can never be- dii.
pltratcd. h"raus, there b. none like il
hpon the face ot the earth. And "a.
are ruckIng and impoypgishlug 10 rN.
actlN as Vc are Telling The forests and
riiiiug the mines cur soil. ono, th,
envy oi every other country tn, at
traction which draws millions OF inn
migrants across tho seas. gave an as.
cngo Yield for IN, whole United
states during IA, GO years bermning
with 1896 OF 1873 bushels pf wheat
per acre Austria aud Huugur' rith
produced over ~ bushels per lcr.
France ls.N, Gcrmauy go ANA N,
United Kingdom 32.2 bushels uei
acre For the Sam. decade our at,r-
age yield OF oats was less than pa
bushels. whit" German, prod cpl I'd
and Great Britain a. For hurley th,
Figures are 20 against 33 and 800.
for rye, l5.t against - for ,;.ru,us
and 80 for ireland In the United
Kingdom, Belgium TN. Scth,rnu D.
ana Denmark tlrld of u.pr. than
go bushels OF wheat per acre Fa,
been the average tor ,h, rut fiy,
wears.
The two remedies are ass wet
asccrtainrd Js is the evil Rpptiou
90 craps and th, u-. of fyttVi2rst ACT
as tonics upon the soil vs.. might
expand our resources aud ada millions