Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-12-07
SOME DEPARTMENTAL EDITORIALS.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has issued the 18th annual
report of the Office and it contains interesting matter
it is dug out
The synopsis make series of paragraphs each which
little editorial in itself, and hence is printed SUCH
When the cattle fever tick destroyed in the Southern states
the country will section the pro
ducing of it will build up the farms there.
The hog cholera developed in this department
cessful where it is properly made and applied
Would be asking much of universities to have them
educate plant pathologsts and road engineers?
Every country the world that has diseased plants that
not be sold at home ship them to This result great
loss. The chestnut disease here is an illustration.
After years of experimentation find grow Egyp
tan cotton in Southern California and bulbs in the State of
Washington
The finest from Sahara Desert succeed South
west
No seed is out from this department without being tested
for termination condition.
The schools of publications than have to
give them.
hundred fifty million dollars the estimate
for poultry products this year.
The day is far distant when will import potash
serious pest in the South the crayish; bsuphde is
sure remedy.
We sending explorers the ends of the earth for
plans-and getting them.
The phosphates abundant country for all possible
Florida Kentucky Tennessee and Idaho may be
toned as repositories
If good roads from the producer the general
the benefits to both would be considerable
When foreign insect nvades scientists seek it's enemy
where from The natural of the boil weavi
ant that could not endure winters but the native ant
getting busy
The experiment stations of the several states doing better
work each succeeding the scientists maturing and the
people appreciating
The object lesson in agriculture the best teacher had
10000 of them at work last year
Six hundred thousand short of beet sugar made last
year in 67 factories There san estimated worlds shortage
of 100000 long tons of sugar this year.
The pays dollar for food the farmer gets less than
so cents for it. Who gets the rest?
All agencies that public health should be
grouped together in bureau
The department of agriculture has had in the Southern
states through object lessons in the fields where the best South
farmers their counties the instructors This meth
cd should be organized all the states along lines of great
cessity
Our systems renting lands faulty and result in soil
robbing; where the provide domestic animals
the should arrange to furnish hem that rotation of
crops be had and hay and grains be fed the farm
Irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is
and full of plant food but where the crops sold by
irrigation will not of itself assure good crops.
Alaska will some day provide famers in lower attitudes with
grain seeds superior to what they grow at home.
The crop is moving northward by seed selection
The Southern farmer boy showing the to grow of
all crops on
Educate the farmers boy toward valuable life the
farm
Upift the farm home through the education of the farmers
daughter greater usefulness and aracveness in the
farm home.
all the liquid fertilizer the farm in cisterns to be
piled where crops grow this will the greatest
farm waste of our times.
There great promise in the fact that whole classes of grad
of agricultural colleges go back to the FARMS having
learned how to make them profitable
Our foresters learning by experiments how refost 80
900 year. 10 times much must be planted annual
N to cover all the bare in generation 1t will be done
There should be publicity regarding the cold storage of foods
through monthly reports federal authority that would
give them to the press the end that the people might know to
what extent foods being withdrawn from consumption