The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21
Natural Privilege.

When IN doubt-study Nature. Where her funda
mental laws are understood and applied efficiency has
full play. Starting with the fundamental law OF har
mony there has been developed science OF music
with its power to charm and amuse to soothe or in
spire mighty deeds. Harmony is fundamental The
success OF the depends the efficiency
with which he builds his composition with regard to
harmony. The musician is successful in the degree OF
efficiency with which he renders the composition
cording to his sympathy with and understanding OF
harmony.
In the gloom the doubt into which modern in
dustriasm, and humanity under it, has been cast
turn to Nature. The human family with all its mis-
fits its Earring and dscordant not be
closely tuned to Natures laws. The sight of the
rich and his palatial bring newt
ably the sums of the side streets, teemng with
congested humanity The proud buildings that house
his great industrial plant also may conceal hundreds
OF little seven and eight old boy and girl workers.
striving with their pitful earnings to help maintain
the family income. and turned before their
bent old men and women-human castaways drifting
ever towards the vortex OF the modern industrial mae
strom, oblivion, and its welcome relief from the ugly
hurts with which humanity disfgures Nature
Out in the country lives another OF Natures fam
ilies-the On a bit cleared uncultivated
land are seen Natures efforts to cothe herself again
in her forest gown. Little spruce beech maple and
poplar trees all struggling the privilege of
trbutng the dominant shade to its color scheme
the plant food in solution in the ground
favorable for its growth the beech variety
faster than the Others and in the years
that bit of land Is covered with a beech forest.
In that forest Of beeches some trees larger and
stronger than the Others They have sprung from bet
ter and stronger seed maybe and that advantage
them among their immediate family beeches
They assimlate the common plant food efficiently
than the rest and naturally them All these
in turn. bear seeds that scattered by birds
squirrels to ground where when their time comes
they will spring forth continue Natures bidding
Always, however, the efficient trees are dis.
t1ngu1shed from those around them
AS the beech forest grows mightier and mghtier
however, 1t does SO at the of the
strength. It uses proportionatey O some one
element OF plant food than gradually
1t exhausts this element solution which
has fostered it so many years. Clustered around the
trunks OF the great beeches in the underbrush many
little naples and poplars spruce and pop
lars surprised finally when naples seem
to have taken a lease life are growing
as they never did before The beech in exhausng
food solution Of its favorite made the So
luton more favorable to the growth naples AS the
individual beeches die Oft tho naples crowd into the
vacant places and. in time. the beech forest be-
como forest OF naples Just did the beeches,
tho naples Eventually after they grown through
their part OF the cycle and produced their
ones. the plant food solution becomes
to the growth OF other variety the family
and this takes the place vacated by the naples.
This is Natures great law OF rotation. beeches
prepare tho way for the naples and the naples for
some other variety. The cycle continues until once
tho food solution is favorable to growth of
beeches. when 1t begins over again. The supremacy
of each variety is marked for time then disappears
During its brief reign it to bring
efficient fruit that when its time again
it will start higher plane.
Natures great law of equal opportunity, as shown
in this is the right Of all of trees to
occupy the ground in and to have
to its plant food in solution efficient
variety crowds tho others aside being and
brings forth its more efficient seed This right of the
efficient to forward regardless natural priv
lego Even this, however is allowed to be monop
osed BY variety Each variety as has been
shown works itself automatically makes room
for its successor. Each, however succeeds to the
common possessed ground
little less than half the population country
is living approximately according to the of natural
privilege The farmers, either tenants
the agricultural lands the nation That is
their equal opportunity. Upon they are allowed and
encouraged build to the highest point attanabe under
natural privilege. On two adjoining farms farmer
will raise seventy bushels of the and his
neghbor will only thirtyfve The first practses
farming according to Natures law OF rotation
farm is divided into three fields one is wheat in
the other is clover and in the third is follows
clover and clover follows wheat and wheat follows
in each Of these fields in three year rotation crops
He does this because experiments proved Ia
this rotation each plant leaves the food solution in the
right proportion for the that follows it. Conse-
quenty. In this alone he is able to increase
appreciably the yield per acre.
The neighboring farmer who raises but half as
much corn to the does believe scientific
farming The way in which father and grandfather
handled the land is good enough for him. His grand
father cleared the land virgin forest through
which for ages Natures law OF rotation had been
ing, and year after planted after his
fields The stored-up richness soil, due to Ma
lures former rotation, allowed to be done with
only slight decrease in yield each year. When his
father succeeded to the ownership the farm he
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