The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-25

country and making n survey which
| will show just how to treat them.
He IS also testing new seeds ans
plants and his explorers are travelling
over the world seeking new crops
We have already made millions by
his Introduction of rice and maCarout
| wheat. and are inaugurating trop.cag
agriculture IN the irrigated deserts ~
the West.
These new crops are OF many kinds
| and suggestions may be given Of thjnE=
! out of which any farmer can make
money.
Uncle Sans Plans For the Miner.
Many of the latest schemes re}at-
70 the mines and the miners. CNeL.
Sam has plans for saving our minerals
! We have the greatest coal lands upoE
arth. and there are billions OF tons
| fl upon Government property. Tn
| MOUNTS are SO vast that they VIII
| ing in hundreds of millions OF dol
| rs, and they are to be sold o.
| Inmates made as to the amounts
,ey contain. The geological survey
| s are now prospecting and slztr@
| D these coal lands. and the GOV
| rnment~ is selling them in forty
ere tracts at from fifty to one hun
red dollars and upward per acre
II connection with his there arr
i bout fifteen billion tons Of ayailable
| oal in Alaska, which Will soon be
oh4 cpSh ~ 49, 49, - E'E
ONE Of this coal is that which il
said the Guggenheims tried har1
, grab.
AS to our other minerals they brin-
n many millions q year, and lucls
ANS records Will show just what
hey are and where.
/ In this same connection are The
lew measures now being introduced
or protecting the m ner. The Coy
rnInent is testing all sorts OF ca
losives. and doing all ii can TO save
ife in the mines. Experiments are
coins on in the coal regions OF penn
~ylvania. and also in h gold and
Iver mines Of the West.
Cncle Sans Plans For Corn and
Cotton.
Some OF the b ggest schemes OF th"
| Government relate to the cotton belt
nd corn fields. The Government is
eaching corr breeding and corn
eeding. Our corn brought in last
year over $500, 600, 0o0, and the
otton brought in about 500 or eco
Millions. The corn crop can b.
doubled and the cotton materially in
reased. We are improving both
rops. and Uncle Sam has cotton
breeding plantations where he IS
erossing the cottons to make a staple
which will be longer and bring more
money. He is doing the same With
other crops. including our fruits. This
material will include stories of apple
lands worth q thousand dollars an
acre. of orange groves improved BY
the Government, which are equally
valuable, and Of how dates. ORANGES
and figs are being grown on the new
irrigated grounds of the Southwest
On some Of the Arizona farms. they
"a Sc five crops of ~cabbages u year.
More Money from Live Stock.
But few people know that the GOV
eminent has gone into the stock-rais-
ing business. Uncle Sam has recent
~ established breeding farms in diff
ferent parts of the Union. He is rails
ing Morgan horses and fine cattle.
including Jerseys. Shorthorns and
others. Our farm animals are now
bring ns US in about two billion dol
lars a year, and the Government be-
lieveS that this amount by careful
breeding can be increased 500 million
dollar or more. This should bring
down the price of. meats. and il Is
/ interesting to every householder.
In the same connection is the breed
ing of game. The Government is In
Producing partricges and pheasants. II
proposes to open a buffalo farm, and
it has herds Of reindeer in Alaska.
A curious feature Is the probable In
| PRODUCTION OF he Appropriateness for