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MEDICINE FOR SICK SOILS. SOILS OF BASKETS
AND 3 HAVE BEEN DoSED BUT Not TERRIFIED; Mol
STANDS In ORIGINAL SOIL 4 AND HAVE HAD FERTILIZER

a comparatively small area. Until with
in the last decade the most of it was
raised in the north Last year almost
1,o00,000.000 bushels came from the south
and that had a value of close to $780,
GGi'.iDO- 1t was created because the
south had begun to learn more about
the soil and it is but the beginning of an
enormous wealth which further knowl-
edge will bring.
The cotton crop brought in an aggre-
gate of something like $500. G.,,,OOo and
that Notwithstanding the weeyil. which
had We not learned more about the soil
since its coming, would have wiped more
than half of our Gotten plantations from
the lace of the earth. And then there
IS the hay crop amounting to G0,000, coo
tons and worth more than 500. 0OD,G00
the wheat crop which was almost as
valuable and our oats which exceeded
1oU.OOaoo0 bushels. to say nothing of
potatoes. sugar. tobacco and barley. each
of which ran high into the millions. All
this comes from the soil and the product
depends on just what the soil is. The
agricultural experts say that in nine
cases out of ten every crop can be
largely increased. provided the right crop
IS chosen for the right place and the Gull
tiVation properly done. 1t is to show
just what your soil is and how you Should
treat il to make il do best that Uncle
Sam is working in this great soil survey.
But what mighty job it is. Think of
going over the United States with an au-
CUR, an inch and half in diameter ana
three feet in length, and boring down into
every ten-acre field to find just what kin
Of soil it contains. That IS what
Uncle Sam is doing. He has already test
ed the most of the land of the great
plains, and has actually made soil maps
and working plans for territory larger
than France, Germany the Spanish
peninsula. He has mapped and anaIyZed
the soils of considerably more than one
hundred million acres in the eastern parl
of this country. having completed the
work over enough land 10 make four
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The Peg.

FUDGE BEN LINDSEY. in a recent adj
J dress il Denver, said:
Il believe in the future rather than IN
the past. | despise those ultra-conserva
tives and reactionar!es who hate new
things simply because they are new.
Precedent,
Judge Lindsey snapped his fingers.
precedent Is all very Well in its way
but how often is ii only the peg on which
were but too glad to hang our rnisdeeds. .
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particles and the character of their con-
tents, as well as according 10 the way
they have been laid down, that we know
shat orr soils are.
DIR. Whitney could tell you just about
how the United States was made. He
knows where the soils came from and
how they were laid down upon the rocky
surface OF the globe. | have before me
Il map made BIZ his bureau which shows
our great soil provinces. Ii is in many
colore, each Of which describes the land
of its location. In the first place there
are the soils which have been washed
down from the mountains. This is disin-
tegrated rock which has rolled over ana
over, in these countless billions of grains.
until I has built ~ the land on the edge
uf the sea We have a "rfat "Trip q. that
kind OF sell running along the Gulf OF
north as the edge Of New England. This
is excellent land for farming and vege-
tables.
II raises corn and all sorts of crops in
The south: in Florida ii makes cotton and
gives US the fruits OF the tropics. Or
This about thiIty-three million acres have
Daen already surveyed.
Just back Of this region. lying east of
the Appalachian mountains, is what is
known as the Piedmont plateau. another
great strip of soil This is made of a diff
ferent rock and is SO situated that tn6
rock has disintegrated Or rotted and lies
where il went 10 pieces These soils have
s. special character OF their own, and
they need special treatment.
Still further west is the Appalachian
region which. as far az | can understands J.,
is OF less value than most other soils,
and to the north and west OF It. coal
prising the upper Mississippi valley AMI
the most of the land about the great
lakes. are what are known as the gla-
.iai and loesSial soils. These comprise a
large part of the corn basket and bread
basket of the United states, and they are
exceedingly rich.
You may have read of the great loess
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suppressed in 1.,}6 scattering about 20
UD members. Today of converts for
women alone there are close upon 4Jo,
including religious institutions kept by
nuns and orphanaees in England. to say
nothing of Ireland where the proportion
is generally treble that of England. OF
the orders of men probably the Chris
tian Brothers founded in 1s92) are the
most powerful, having no less than 25o
schools in Ireland. but by far the most
influential. both socially and politically.
are the English Jesuts with their seven
the English empire while next i'll inn
with their seven stately abbeys. four
and lay broth(s Next come the
rominicans with ten priores in Eng
land and double that number in ireland.
the F'ranciscans with twenty-five. the
Capuchins ten, the CarmeliteS nine and
then follow about forty or fifty other
minor orders like the Services the Ora
torians and the Passionists. bringing up
the total to very near the 20.0Do sup
pressed at the reformation
AS to wealth il would he impossible to-
gauge it, In France before the passing
of the association law the government
estimated the value of the religious
houses at S200.0O0.G01. | think tenth
of the French estimate would not be at
all too much for the English institutions,
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while S1,25o,Uuo would be conservative
estimate of their annual revenue.
The completeness of Henry Wits re-
form may be gagged. from the fact that
when Queen Mary in LIS tried to restore
Westminster Abbey to the Order of. Blacl
Monks. who had once owned one-thrd Of
England. she could only find little COM
munity of fifteen monks to place under
the last abbot of Westminster. Dom John
Feckenham. He must have been d
pathetic figure. that aged abbot, when
one day few wears, later. while planting
elms in his garden, he received Eliza
beths notice of the final suppression of
monasticism for his refusal to assent to
the royal supremacy. He r continued
planting his elms-'Maybe those WHO
come after me-. ne said quietly. will be
as fond of peace and study AZ We were
will like the shade"
There was no peace for him. however.
and as year after year passed by in
prison he saw his order gradually re-
duced to ten. then five. then two. then
one-himself-a monk without d Closter a
brother without brethren. hoping and
dreaming the hopes and dreams of de-
spair.
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D the aVera ge tour
list who visits Lon
don with his Bae-
deker, the words
Whitefriars. Black
friars, Canonbury,
Bishopgate. Abbey
Mill, Monkswell.
ADbotS Inn and a
thousand 1t n e I
names derived from
monastic days are
merely a memory
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w IL - t'ffta ft
the most Stupen-
dous undertak king
that Uncle Sam
has ever attempt
ed. 1t IS the max
ing an inventory
of and working
ID | "a n s for our
biggest national
asset. | refer to
{ n C government
survey of q u I
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recalling perhaps a dim page of eccle-
: astical history or perchance Carlyles
immortal picture of Abbot Samson OF
Bury St Edmunds in the days of Occur
lie Lion. FIc would he surprised, how
ever. if he We're told that there
new st. Edmunds, new Whitefriars.
new Westminster cathedTal-in word
that all these conventual and religious in
sttutions he thought suppressed and ex-
terminated have returned more powerful
in some ways than ever. and that all over
England today are monks living exactly
the life Of the monks in the days before
america was discovered
Not only are there hourishing repre-
sentatives of every suppressed order. who
have survived the centuries of penal leg
islation but, by the addition of newer
bodies ke the Jesuits and the Christian
Brothers. To say nothing of the vast in
nux OF foreign congregations expelled
from France by the associations law of
1901, they are three times as rich and
far more influential than at the moment
when Henry VIII issued his famous de-
cree.
The fact that the general public has
been so little aware of this state of af-
fairs can be understood when the words
of Sir Godfrey Lushington. formerly I'M
der secretary for home affairs, are re-
membered. In practice, ne wrote. re
Iigious houses are shrouded in secrecy.
No one knows anything about them The
home office does not. Nor does the local
government board Nor does Dublin Cas-
tie Npr does Somerset House. The GEN.
,sus gives no statistics showing the total
number of iigious houses and their to-
.-aIitN OF the number of nuns. or the
= number of pen'tents ~ the humber Ui
innates.
Roughly speaking about so houses were
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one is the prior of the community and the
other the rector of the schoo.-for there
are in the neiShboring blocks of buildings
some hundred or more boys being pre-
pared for all kinds of professions and ca
reers.
suddenly the carlton or monastic
chimes. start ring nis; Il is the hour OF
mass. You take Your place again in the
nave. and next moment you see the lcrd
abbot with miter ard crosier at the end
of great procession, and if it he a fcasa
day YOU VIII see behind you the college
boys and hear their voices in the. choir
After mass The WORK of the day really
begins: each having rs appointed task 70
the lay or work brother may he on
the farm. the Young priests in the IL
brary preparing for The mission. the no.
ices going 10 he instructed and tried in
humility ana endurance.
Dinner is The same solemn function as
break faSt save that the hoiY rule the
The afternoon recrc alton then follows
after the abbot mas finished the homeiy
chat. given OUt the opened letters AMI
allowed the MONKS the various permits
sions necessary Toward q veSpers once
more reasssnbtes the mCnlS 10 PRAYER
for prayer is the mosi important thing
in their whole life.
Supper follows Vespers and after a
short pause "cOnipline' or the last even
ing song. and once more the church is
nlled with the long-robed monks. For the
last time the groined roofs reSound to
the Chanted PISA ms. and then the final
blessing given. one by one they retire to
rest. In a few minutes the great curfeA
bell tolls out. and the lights in the sep
aTate cells are Instantly eXtinguiShed
downright. 1911, 10y Curtis Brown)
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One day shortly before his death there
came knock at the gatehouse Prison
Some young men with foreign cloaks en-
tered with special permits, and TO his
joy the Old man perceived the young re-
cruits of Rome and Spain coming 20 beg
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tween ST. Paul's and the Strand. which,
IL viii be remembered. was used by Car
dinal CanVeggio for the grea, trial of
Queen Catherine of Aragcn, and which
survived in name when Sh2 hespeare used
it's yard for q theater. and TO this day
in the bridge which spans the Thames
there.
The '.Nhitefriars," who gave Their
name 10 that locality Just off Fleet
street. have also sUrv we'd. the Carmeiite
Church al kensington drawing crowds
OF curious and pIous strangers to its
gorgeous services. The CkaFterhGuse. too,
which is corruption o. the name OF
the chief monastery Of the Carthusians-
Ia Graade Chart-e,.se--s also liz Ilg
reality. The old AUSTIN friars are back II
f'uiham. While the ceHons of ST. Au-
glStine, whose chief house Was ST Bar
tkololncw's the Great. are back. reintro
iHced by WiseHl2n, and noW numbering
six houses.
Thon there are The Cistercians, whose
hecuti.ul Nb'5ey OF Tntefn. on the wye.
is .the beet preserved o. taren hundred
houses. They are ut Mount Il. BernaTd,
n England, and IL the celebrated Abbey
of Mount Military. II Ireland. which is
Just Ike bit Of ting N ddle ages in the
twentieth century.
Nor are the modern orders behind hand
the Christian Brothers sheltering in their
1.-asj houses over a quarter of million
pupils, the Iesuts, who have over one
hundred different houses, and the Ora
torlaas-NeNman' order-with. the finest
modern church n London. In point OF
wealth alone, Downs de Church WILL in
all probability, be as fine as Wells ca
thedral
But let US leave statistics and get
a glimpse of the inner life of the monks.
Let us ask to spend day in the cloister
of Belmont nster, in Hereford the
chief training house of the oldest and
greatest order in England-the Bened c.
tines
\ brother porter looks through the
small grating in the Gothic portal and
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soils. our eyes bulge when we think
of our enormous resources in mines, OF
the gold. silver, copper and coai ana
the mighty beds of iron which keep our
industries moving. Nevertheless they
are nothing compared with our fecelp's
from the soil. Take all the gold. silver
and copper that the world produces IN
one year and it's value would not De
half that of our corn crop, All the
gold dug out of the earth IN l?lO
would not buy half the cotton we snail
raise this year and it would take
twenty times the gold product OF the
world to pay for what we are annually
receiving from the farms. The amount
is close to a.Gisp million dollars. Since the
discovery of America the total value or
the precious metals which have been
mined aggregates less than $1,000 million
dollars In other words. three crops like
that of las: year would equal all the gold
and silver taken out or this Dig rOunu
earth since the Spaniards led by Column
bus came across the Atlantic to begin
their robbery of the AztecS and the
Incas. That was four hundred and
nineteen years ago. and since that the
whole world has been digging and DEW
ing to get out that silver and gold
Within the last thirteen years our lit
tie army of farmers has taken from
the earth crops which are worth more
than 81 billion dollars. or three times the
product of the gold and silver mines for
more than four hundred years.
X +
Before describe this survey let me say
a word more as to some of the things We
get from the soil. The corn crop $ the
greatest 1t amounted last year to
three billion bushels and was worth more
han 5G0 million dollars Nevertheless,
il was dug from the ground in a
little less than 100 days and the
government experts tel that If
the crop is riShtfully handled its amount
can be doubled That crop comes from
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But there is not one of the older orders
that has not survived Thus the old
friar preachers still maintain their repu-
tation at Hayerstock Hill in London. ia
nous for its retreats 20 thousands upon
thousands every year, while al Wood
hester in Gioucesterehire. the largest Of
their six houses, can be seen exactly the
same life as was lived in the large mon
astery Of ''BlackfriaIs.' Vh oh lay be-
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of his hands the habit OF his old order
in order to transmit its rights and privi-
leges Like a second samuel he blessed
them and asked God 20 prosper their
cause and as soon as they returned to
the continent lands and moneys and pa
tronaSe came raining down upon them
until today they are once more teaching
and praying and building as Of old
Though this is the story of the lareess
order - the English BLACK Monks OF ~
Bened ct-neariy every order has had
some similar experience
Perhaps the English Jesgits are the
strongest of the orders. Father BERNARD
Vaughan being the best known preacher
in England There are for example about
1l,tan Engiish-speaking Jesuit rriests and
scholastics in England and the % Onies,
and their colleges ike ) on} harst. Beau
mont and ClOngowes, in addition TO beng
the leading Catholic colleges. m Point Of
architecture compare well with such his
toric institutions Elton and Harrow.
while at oxford they have their own pri-
vate hall.
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states as big at Illinois. or five the size
of Ohio Kentucky.
This testing has been done by counties
or small areas picked out at some dis
tances apart. so that a general knowi-
edge of the soils lying between is already
known. Ii shows just what the soils are.
ana to what crops they are adapted and
how they may be improved 1t has been 50
done that we now have a fair Knowledge
of the soils east of the great plains, al
though the practical working plans AMI
maps have to be made for each county.
and this work will go on for decades to
come.
An army OF experts is now at work in
the drv-plains region. mapping the coun-
try from North Dakota to Texas. Other
experts are testing the places in the
Rocky mountain basin where the recIa-
nation plants are being created. and
considerable surveying has been done in
California and in other parts of the Pa
cific slope. as well as in the gulf states
and the Mississippi valley. The work
has been such that We have now gem
eral outline of our soil territories as well
as accurate knowledge of about = per
cent of the whole. The total land Of the
United States proper aggregates about
LOG million acres, and. as | have said
of more than fo0.00J.o00 acres we have
already completed surveys. The work
began about eleven years ago. 1t is car
ried on by one of the chief bureaus of
the Agricultural Department. whose sci
entific laboratories and other arrange
ments are among the finest of the gov
erHment. In addition to the actual eX-
haustive surveys, prospecting surveys
have been carried on in many sections.
and there on file requests for $50
and more additional surveys, covering
about one-fifth of our country.
1t, makes ones head buzz when he
thinks of these big scientific features OF
Uncle Sans work They ars hard to de-
scribe Unpopular language. and the scien-
fists use terms which would frighten the
reader | have been talking with many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
By L. G. Redmond Howard.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
LONDON, September u, 10
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ccoprrirht. 1911. ~ Frank c. Carpenter,
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LOW Uncle Sam Is Map
I I ping the Country for the
Investor and Farmer-Our
Enormous Crops and What
They Mean - Testing the
United States. With Augurs
How Our Land Was Made
What Soil Is-The Loess
Region of China Versus the
Mississippi Valley-Medicine
for Sick Lands-A Wonder
full Work Which Will Great
ly Add to Our National
Wealth.
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particles and the character of their con-
tents, as well as according 10 the way
they have been laid down. that we know
shat Our soils are.
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