Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-06
WOULD ADVERTISE
FARM RESOURCES
OF NEW JERSEY
State Board of Agriculture Be-
lieyes Plan Is Feasible
One.
MANY ACRES AVAILABLE
IN MANY PARTS OF STATE
Market for Product Is Increasing
Every Year, Is Pointed
Out.
SPECIAL to the Newark star.l

TRENTON, Sept. 6.-If Secretary
Franklin Dye, of the State Board or
Agriculture, can get the consent of the
State Printing Board for the pubhca-
ton of a pamphlet he is Just com
pleting on the soils of New Jersey,
Essex county, together with the other
sections of the State, will get wide adj
vertising in a move to attract more
farmers to New Jersey.
The publication will give detailed
and exact information as to the nature
of the soil in every section of the
State. showing the kind of cultivation
needed, and the kinds of crops that
can be raised best in the respective
sections. The pamphlet will be sum
married. by counties. and In addition to
the soil information will outline briefly
certain other characteristics of each
county, such as schools, shipping fa-
%cilities, markets and other factors that
go to make up successful farming
centres.
In an interview today Secretary Dye
declared that New Jersey and many
other Eastern States had very largely
neglected the advertising Of their agri-
cultural advantages. to their great
detriment. The West and Northwest.
he said, have spread broadcast the
knowledge of their farming opportuni-
ties and benefits. n in consequence
have a high class of farmers and are
prosperous. 1t Is his decided opinion
thai rural New Jersey should become
better known to the rest of the world,
and so he has prepared this booklet.
MIR. Dye referred to the fact that
Northern New Jersey is rapidly be-
coming practically one large city. The
Jersey seashore is growing into n
long line of cities n the New York
and Philadelphia markets are con-
stantly growing. Rural New Jersey is,
therefore, growing more desirable
every year as a site for farming. He
will show In his pamphlet that in
South Jersey there are a million acres
of pine lands now a vast waste. MI.
Dye claims that while not all of this
land is susceptible of cultivation much
of 1t may be made TO produce paying
crops. He thinks this land should be
developed and every section of the
rural parts of the State should be
made to blossom with fine farm crops.
AS a part of the scheme he believes
the advantages of the State should be
known. 1.-THE Western States are adj
vertlsed all over Europe" he declared.
lin a way to attract the best class of
immigrants to their unoccupied lands.
Why should not New Jersey do the
same?p
As n element in a plan to develop
South Jersey, Secretary Dye recon-
mends that more improved roads be
opened through that part of the State.
He has already taken this question up
with Colonel Edwin A. Stevens, State
road commissioner. One improved road
Is being projected southerly from Lake
wood.
Better development of the farm
lands of the State, more good roads
through the rural sections and Their
the necessary publicity to bring more
successful farmers into the State, in
Mr.. Dyes opinion, are the elements
which will carry New Jersey much
further ahead In the realm of agricul-
ture than the place she now occupies.