Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-08

nual report of the secretary of agri
culture, made public, today, begins
with a series of short paragraphs o
much national Importance They arr
reprinted below:
Brief Comments.
When the cattle-fever tick is de
stroyed in the Southern States tbs
country will get much more meat from
that section, and the producing of i
will build up the farms there.
The ifog-eifoiera seTjifn developed ii
this department is successful where il
is properly made and applied.
Would it be asking too much of ouI
universities 10 have them educate
more plant pathologists and road en-
gineers?
Every country in the world that has
diseased plants that can not be sold at
home can ship them TO us. This re-
suits In great loss. The chestnut dis
ease here is an illustration
After years of experimentation we
find we can grow Egyptian cotton in
southern California and bulbs in the
state of Washington.
The finest dates from the Sahara
Desert succeed in our Southwest.
No seed Is send out from this depart
rnent without being tested for germi-
nation condition.
The schools want more of our publf-
cations than we have to give them.
Seven hundred and fifty million dol
lars is the best estimate for poultry
products this year
The day is not far distant when we
will cease to import potash
A serious pest in the South is the
crayiish: carbon bisulphid is SURF
remedy
We are sending explorers TO the ends
of the earth for new piants-and get
ting them.
The phosphates are abundant in our
country for all possible uses. Florida.
Kentucky. Tennessee, and idaho may
be mentioned as repositories
If good roads from the producer to
the consumer were general, the bene-
fits TO both would be considerable.
When foreign insect invades, our
scientists seek its enemy where 1t
came from. The natural enemy of the
boil weeVil was an ant that could not
endure our winters, but the native ant
is getting busy.
The experiment stations of the sew
eral states are doing better work each
succeeding year, the scientists are ma :
turing, and the people are appreeiat-
ing.
The object lesson in agriculture is
the best teacher; We had 10000 of then
at work last year.
Six hundred thousand short tons oi
beet sugar were made last year in 6,
factories There is an estimated
worlds shortage of 100000 long tons
of sugar this year.
The consumer pays a dollar for food
the farmer gets less than fifty cent:
for it. Who gets the rest:
All Government agencies that con
serve public health should be grouped
together in one bureau.
The Department of Agriculture has
had success in the Southern States
through object lessons in the fields
where the best southern farmers il
their counties We're the instructors
This method should be organized in al
the states along lines of greatest nee
essity.
Our systems of renting land are
faulty and result in soil robbing
where the renter can not provide do
nestle animals, the owner should ar
range to furnish them. so that rotation
of crops may be had, and hay and
grains may be fed on the farm.
irrigation will bring maximum crops
while the land is new and full of plant
food: but where the crops are sold year
by year irrigation win not of itself as
sure good results.
AMska win some day provide farm
x.ith Grain c1adt
superior TO what they can grow a
home
The corn crop is moving northwart
by seed selection.
The southern farm boy is showint
the way to grow more of all crops OF
an acre.
Educate the farmers boy toward {
more valuable life on the farm.
Cplift the farm home through tn
education of the, farmers daughter TO
ward greater usefulness and attrac
tiveness in the farm home.
Save all the liquid fertilizers on thu
farm, In cisterns. to be applied wher'
crops are to grow; this will recover
the grea test farm waste of our times.
There is great promise in the fac
that whole classes of graduates of ag
ricuitural colleges go pack 10 the ldfHi'
having learned how TO make then
profitable
our foresters are learning by expert
ments how TO reforest 10000 acres In
wear: 10 times as much must be plant
cd annually to cover all the bare acres
in a genera ton. 1t will be done.
There should be publicity regarding
the cold storage of foods, through
monthly reports to some Federal au'
thority that would give them to th'
press, to the end that the people mgh'
know to what extent foods were oeint
withdrawn from consumption.
Crop Production and Value.
In the discussion OF crop productiol
and values the Secretary states tha'
the climatic conditions of the early
part OF the growing season OF l9ll