The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-28
OVATION TO BRYAN.
Conservation Congress Cheers for 10
Minutes When He Appears.

Kansas City, Sept. 2s.-After Will
liam J. Bryan had delivered an address
last night before a large audience in
conservation congress finally adjourn
ed. Conservation" said Mr.. Bryan,
lis a subject that grows. Begin, for
instance with the consideration of for
estry and you are confronted with
the soil question. Agricultural colleges
as the panacea for farm ills then come
before you. But at last you come to
the matter of social conditions. This
health, his hopes, his character are
the great controlling principles that
govern life and conduct. These be-
come primary subjects and all other
forms of conservation become methods
through which he works out the prob
lem of advancement"
Mr.. Bryan was on the platform
when Walter L. Fisher, secretary of
the interior, addressed the congress on
the subject Conservation and the
Public Domain
A general demand for a speech
from Mr.. Bryan prompted him to
make an informal talk, in which he
said that an utterance on conservation
by the secretary of the interior was of
more interest than that of any other
man, for while other men can advice,
he can act.''
When Mr.. Bryan entered the hall
ton that lasted ten minutes In fact,
he had to ask the crowd to stop the
dem monstration before the program
could proceed.
AS Mr.. Bryan sat down many of the
spectators started to leave, when an
announcement of the chairman that
letter from former President Roosevelt
was to be read stopped the confusion
at once. Mr.. Roosevelt's letter OK
planned why it was impossible for him
tn
Secretary Fisher in his speech
strongly urged the leasing of govern
ment-owned coal lands, with particu-
lar reference to those in Alaska.
Il have been in Alaska and British
Columbia. Why don't We have the
same kind of law? 1t retains the land
in the control of the government, af-
fords a permanent return and pre-
vents the exhaustion Of the land in
few years. But most important of all,
it prevents the boarding of the lands
and the subsequent undevelopment by
capitalists
After speaking OF conservation O.
forest lands, Mr.. Fisher said:
There is a system used in Australia
that would bear emulation. It is that
the owner or leaser OF forests cannot
keep title unless he does some develop
ment work.
BY the employment of such plan
Mr.. Fisher indicated that speculation
by capitalists in lumber lands at the
expense of the public would be obvia-
ted.
Cobllrn in the Chair.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kan
sas department of agriculture, presided
at the afternoon session
Unless farmers produce more eff
GENTLY, the population will become so
large the food supply will be far below
requirements" said Henry Jackson
Waters, president of the Kansas State
Agricultural college. in his address be-
fore the congress. His subject was
THE Future Food Supply
''This increased production" Presi-
dent Waters said, must come through
better education and this better edu-
cation must have its beginning in the
rural school. Fully nine-tenths of our
school to the farm To reach them,
therefore, with the sort of education
that will make them better husbands
men, it will be necessary to take it to
the rural schools, where the children
are who are to become the farmers of
tomorrow
Waste on the farm. said the speaker.
must be stopped He declared that
fully one-fourth of the value of the
corn crop in many leading agricultural
states is now wasted for the lack of
siles. Wastes from preventable diseases
and insect pests amount annually into
he said.
The farmer, declared President Wa
ters, is not getting as much for his
product as he should. The speaker
cooperation as a remedy for
this evin.
Increase Yields, Says Ten Eyck
THE average crop yields in this coun-
try are too low and it is possible to
double the production of staple crops
per acre by adopting better farming
This was the declaration
made by A. M. TenEyck, professor of
farm management at the Kansas State
Agricultural college.
There are three principal factors
which have to do with increasing the
crop yield said the speaker. "Increas-
ing the productive power of the land
Of high breed and better producing
varieties and practicing proper and
more thorough cultivation of the soil.
"It has been shown that it is posi-
BILE to increase the average yield of
the standard crops 25 per cent by the
single factor of introducing and plant
ing pure seed of the right kind.
1.-The soil of our western states is
abundantly fertile. but mismanagement
and continuous cropping with corn and
wheat have reduced its productive pow
er. 1t is possible by the proper use
OF barnyard fertilizer to double the
yield of corn and increase the yield of
wheat 81 per cent
But most important of all is practic-
ing the proper and more thorough cul- |
tivatiOn of the soil. Probably more low
yields and crop failures are due to in
or improper cultivation than
to any other single factor over which
the farmer has control"
FAMILY ELOPES IN AUTO.