Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-12
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/ creasing necessity for its use that It's
expectation should be prohibited by
law. Agricultural chemistry should be
taught in all OF the schools of the
cities as well as in the country, thus
imperssing upon the minds OF the
children the vital necessity of pre-
serving the fertility of the soil, teach
ing them the methods by which these
ends can be best accomplished and
drilling into them the everlasting fact
that "the mill will never grind again
with the water that has passed" The
great Mississippi would soon empty
its food Of waters into the gulf and
be a mighty canyon II its tributaries
should cease TO flow; IL we burn the
candle at both ends the light must
soon go out. Phosphorus in proper
combination with the other fertilizing
elements OF the soil. with scientific
cultural methods, means great crops
and healthy, bouyant, vigorous animal
life to whatever feeds upon them. But
its absence in proper proportion means
gradual starvation and the positive
loss of all mental vitality. War and
pestilence may devastate the country
and the cost in blood and treasure
may be OF immense proportions, but
new life will come, and new genera
tons viii thrive and prosper, travelling
the even tenor of their ways, almost
forgetful of the frightful past Great
floods may come and for a time cover
large areas OF the country,
but these waters will recede and the
lands will produce again; great cities
will be burned TO ashes and forests
destroyed by consuming flames, but
houses will be built again with a great
variety of better material, and the
trees will grow and cover the land and
shade the generations soon ito come;
protracted drouth will bring temporary
disaster to large sections of the coun-
Try, and high prices and suffering will
ensue, but the genial rays of the sun
will evaporate the waters of the seas |
md the heecy clouds will fill again !
and the shifting winds will carry the
life giving showers to the thirsty I
earth. But when by prodigality and !
waste, PHOSPHORUS. this subtle sub |
stance. which it has taken millions of |
years to create, accumulate and dis |
ribute. has been taken from the mines |
md leached from the soil to such an |
sXtent as to destroy its productivity, |
he end will have come. Neither all |
he gold, nor all the silver, nor all the
precious stones, nor the piteous cries
If the starving multitudes will bring
Jack this mysterious elixir of life that
We have so wantonly destroyed.
In coGtradistinction to this grue-
ome picture we are glad to say that
t is not yet too late to inaugurate a
OF agricultural education
hat will cause our 100000 farmers
o realize the immediate necessity Of
the fertility of the soil and
Increasing the productiveness thereby.
then, instead of this worlds growing
hin and gray and hoary with age, it
will grow green and more buoyant
With the everlasting bounty of its
elds and the joyous prosperity of its
nyriads of people. At the battle Of
larengo the first half Of the day had
one against the French, when Des-
ak, consulted by Napoleon, said; 1T
) true, sire, that our troops have
EN- repulsed, and that the battle is