The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-12-05
WILSON
SUBMITS REPORT

The fifteenth annual report of the
secretary of agriculture, made public
today, begins with series Of short
paragraphs of much national import
ance. They are reprinted below:
When the cattle-fever tick is destroy
ed in the southern states the country
will get much more meat from that
section, and the producing of it will
build up the farms there.
The hog-colera serum developed in
this department is successful where it
is properly made and applied.
Would it be asking too much Of our
universities to have them educate more
plant pathologists and road engineersf
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. Ire 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 snt out from this depart
ment without being tested for germi-
nation condition
| The schools want more of our publi-
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
crayfish; carbon bisulphid is a sure
remedy.
We are sending explorers to the
ends of the earth for new plants-and
getting them.
The phosphates are abudant 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 a foreign insect invades, our
scientists seek its enemy where it
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 sever
al states are doing hetter work each
succeeding year, the scientists are ma
turing, and the people are appreciat-
ing.
The object lesson in agriculture is
the best teacher; we had 10000 Of
them at work last year.
Six hundred thousand short tons of
beet sugar were made last year in 81
factories There is an estimated
, world s shortage of 100000 long tons
J of sugar this year.
The consumer pays dollar for food;
} the farmer gets less than fifty cents
J fir it. Who gets the restg
All government agencies that con-
serve public health should be grouped
! together in one bureau.
J The department of agriculture has
had success in the southern states
through object lessons in the field,
where the best southern farmers in
} their counties were the instructors.
This method should be organized in all
, the states along lines of greatest
necessity.
, Our systems of renting land are
: faulty and result in soil robbing;
where the renter cannot 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
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food; but where the crops are sold
| by year irrigation will not of itself
} assure good results.
Alaska will some day provide farm
ers in lower latitudes with grain seeds
superior to what they can grow at
home.
The corn crop is moving northward
, by seed slection.
} The southern farm boy is showing
the way to grow more of all crops on
an acre.
Educate the farmers boy toward q
more valuable life on the farm.
Uplift the farm home through the
education of the farmers daughter
toward greater usefulness and attrac-
J tiveness in the farm home.
} Save all the liquid fertilizers on the
farm, in cisterns, to be applied where
crops are to grow; this will recover
: greatest waste of our times.
There is great promise in the fact
that whole classes of graduates Of ag
ricultural colleges go back to the
farms, having learned how to make
} them profitable.
Our foresters are learning by expert
, ments how to reforest 10000 acres in
J a year; 10 times as much must be
! planted annually to cover all the bare
acres in generation. 1t will be done.
J There should be publicity regarding
the cold storage of foods, through
monthly reports to some federal au-
thority that would give them to the
press, to the end that the people might
} know to what extent foods were being
withdrawn from consumption.
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