The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-06
THE SWAMP LANDS
ylcF.pRESlDENT PARK or ILL
NoIs CENTRAL Speaks ON
RECLAMATION.
Believes Nations Great Need Is TO
Make Great Acres Available

Chicago, H., July 5.--W L. cara
ife.&esident OF the Illinois Central
,atiWay Company and 4 member o.
4 board OF control OF the 18TH Ma
email Irrigation Congress, whlch
meets here this year, is directing tae
rtenfiou OF men interested in the
ongress to what he declares is the
hest concrete example he has ye-
found of the agricultural value OF the
soil deposits in the areas OF swamp
md oyerfowed lands, of which there
- practically So,oo0.o00 acres capa-
| re of reclamation.
The railway officials case In point
| MS 10 do with the south caEo!iAa
,ov. Jerry Moore. Is years Old VINO
1T fail harvested 22S bushels oil
i. orn from one acre of ground. estaD-
shing a record for the year that
made him the champion corn grower
t of the world.
.This is a record" Mr.. Park said,
that will do more for agriculture
), han any other one Accomplishment OF
9 ,imilar nature during the last DECADE
\ cut how did this boy obtain nus eiiof
mons Weld? Simply by going lnte
a / saa swamps near his farm and taxing
no wagonloads of the rich SWAMP
irt which he catered over mas nei'
Al.
ba first winter. This he did ina
yinter merely as a means OF lertlllz
, no his land. The second winter n
A made m his mind to go after the corr
/ aising record, for which good priz
II lad been offered, SO he took 30u Wae
a an loads of swamp dirt the secon
o winter and put it on his field. no
{ owing that, in the spring, he pu
orty-6ye wagonloads Of manure Q
"a he field, then double plowed the mel
), depth of fourteen inches. \
10 aat remained after that was for =
orn to grow up, ripen and marx
ew record for acre production
arhe simple method followed
a 5oung Moore makes easily apparei
ei he crop growing possibilities OF o.
1t swamp soils and, what is far more II
Q ,ortant. the reclamation possiblllti'
~ # our swamp and overfowed loca
!" es There is room In these swan
:, acres for thousands OF farm homes,
10 reclaimed swamp land, somewhat III
n, irrigated land, is capable Of such pl
m | luction that small acreage IS SUI
lent for one farm home. We es
nate that the population OF TINS !
~ ion VIII be I50,Q00.000 people by III
.ed md believe myself that it viii
'on nore than that. For this reason
~ Al zee the necessity Of furtheri
\. 4. wamY land reclamation, as well
~ II other methods Of peoplng the
IN alitfes where fertile lands are NJ
nee ,rod,;cjng. for these homes will
tbs ID needed In years to come. The Z
etf ional Irrigation Congress, long i
OF great influence In the West, now !
launched far-reaching movement
its resolutions passed at recent 8
J. sions looking towards definite y
~ for the states containing large arr
ostA ii swamp lands and by so doing
,lug Ftrther establishes itself as body
ational Importance, i ALREADY =
ne won that place through Its enc
md results for the West
Young Moore, who was sent
Washington where lie met Presii
rev raft aud other government digni
4 after he had been awarded
III growing prize, has prepa
Nit government experts who visl
an Id farm declared was the best .
Veil 5ed fthey had ever seen for his =
and years crop. On this field he 10
Har attempt greater harvest next J
than the prize winner Of 1910