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must be the foundation of every state at
so low an ebh as in our own.
According to the last census the aver
age annual product per acre of the farms
of the whole United States was worth
rental In communities whore the soil is
S1l.3S. 1t Is little more than respectable
properly cared for and made TO give a
reasonable return for cultivation, Tehre
we're but two states in the Union whose
total value of farm products was more
than $50 per acre OF improved land
The great state OF Illinois gave but
Si2.13. and Minnesota showed only SSH.
No discrimination attaches to these fig
ures. where all are so much at fault,
Nature has given to us the most vaIu
1t can never be duplicated, because there
Is none like IT upon the face OF the earth.
And we are raclsing and impoverlshing
II exactly rs we are Telling the forests
envy OF every other country. the attrao-
ton which draws millions OF immigrants
across the seas. gave an average yield for
the whole United States during the ten
years beginning with 1895 Of 1876 bushels
OF wheat per acre.
Austria and Hungary each produced
more than II bushels per acre France
1875 Germany 27.s and the United King
decade our average yield OF oats was less
than 80 bushels. while Germany produced
46 and Great Britain AZ. For barley the
figures are 20: against ss and $40: for
for Ireland. In the United Kingdom Bel
GUM. the Netherlands and Denmark A
Yield of more than 80 bushels OF wheat
per acre has been the average for the
last five years.
When the most fertile land In the world
produces so much less than that of poorer
quality elsewhere, and this low Yield
shows tendency to steady decline, the
situation becomes clear.
We are robbing the soil in an effort to
get the largest cash returns from each
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haps assume that steady and certain
price Of one dollar for wheat may raise
our total annual product 10 90ooOo,Ooo
bushels which would be so pei. cent
more than It's present average. This Is
the extreme limit Of probability
The country could, under present meth
ods, do no more unless IL took land just
as necessary for other purposes, and de-
voted II to wheat raising, In that case
it would only Initiate the man who tried
to make the legs OF his trousers longer
by cutting strips off the bottom and sew
Ing them around the walstband
We are left. practically. with q short
age of 400. 100000 bushels In our wheat
supply, even supposlng that we consume
every grain that we raise This amount
We should have TO procure from some
other source. Where are we to get 1t,
and how Is II TO he paid for?
This is the vital question and as an
answer is imperative II is we'll thai some
of the brightest minds In the country are
turned toward the farm and the solution
OF this and other problems connected
with the farming interests,
The true statement Is this That this
country cannot feed the population which
ID must necessarily have within COM
parativeiy few years II It does not change
It's agricultural methods The emphasis
is ALI on that conditional clause
Germany. which sets the pace for the
world In commercial expansion abroad
and Industrial activity at home. has 900
inhabitants to the square mile. There are
less than thirty per square mile In the
$50 to the square mile easily as any
country in The world. Some OF our states
already have over twice that many. But
no such population as this. none such as
we must inevitably expect In the United
States by the middle of the present cen"
tury. can be maintained unless We i'm
prove and keep OH improving our agIi-
cultural methods; unless we apply TO the
tilllne OF the soil that system OF high
scientific development, Of intensive cult
walton, OF rigid econpmic handling that
has become the rule In all other indus
tries.
We cannot support our coming popula-
tion upon the crop yield per acre that
now satisfies US. We have to transform
a growing decline In the value and pro
ductivity of our soil under continued cni-
tlyatIon into rapid increase IN both
II the crisis can be seen moving upon
Us now. and II IL took Great Britain over
half a century TO raise her wheat yield
from about 1J bushels to '82 bushels per
acre. we have no time TO lose What has
10 be considered. the keynote Of all PRES
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14

OF the great agricultural states of the
country and one Of the wealthiest. Today
as you ride through the south you see
everywhere land quilted by torrential
rains. red and yellow clay banks exposed
where once were fertile fields. and agrl- =
culture reduced because It's main support
has been washed away. Millions OF acres,
In places to the extent of oDe-tenth Of the
entire arabic area, have been Injured so
that no industry and no care can restore
them.
Far more ruiDous, because universal and
continuing in IT'S effects, is the process OF
soil exhaustion. IT is creeping over the
land from east TO west. The abandoned
farms that are now the playthlngs of the
city's rich or the game preserves OF pa
irons of sport bear witness to the mean-
choy change.
New Hampshire, Vermont and nothern
New York show long lists OF them In
western Massachusetts, which once sup
ported hourlshing agriculture, farm
properties are now for sale for. half the
cost Of The improvements. Professor
Carver OF Harvard has declared after
a personal examination of the country,
that agriculture as an independent in
dustry. able In Itself TO support a COM
munity. does not exist in the hilly parts
OF New England"
affecting the farm lands of western New
York. Ohio and Indiana. Where prices
OF farms should rise by increase OF popu
lation In many places they are falling
Between 1880 and 1900 the land values OF
Ohio shrunk $50, 100000.
Official investigation OF two counties in
central New York disclosed n condition OF
agricultural decay. In one land was for
sale for about tho cost of Improvements.
and $50 vacant houses We're counted In a
limited area In the other the popula-
tion in 1905 WAS nearly 1000 less than In
1856.
Practically identical soil conditions ex-
list in Maryland and Virginia. where
lands sell at from SO 10 $50 an acre. In
hearing before an industrial commission
the chief OF the bureau OF soils OF the
department OF agriculture said; ''Onc of
the most important causes OF deteriora-
,tion. and think / should put this first
Of all, Is the method and system OF agri-
culture that prevails throughout these
states. Unquestionaby the soil has been
abused
The richest region of the west is no
more exempt than New England or the
south. The soil OF the west is being re-
duccd In agricultural potency by exactly
the same processes which have driven the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14

farmer OF the east. with all his advantage
of nearness to markets. from the field
Within the last forty years great part
OF the richest land in the country has
been brought under cultivation. We
should therefore. in the same time, have
raised proportionaiely the yield of our
yield OF old lands. If properly treated,
tends 10 increase rather than diminish.
The year 1905 was one OF large crops and
can scarcely be taken as a standard.
we produced, for example. more corn
that year 'han had ever been grown In
the United States in a single year before.
But the average yield peS acre was less
than IL was in 1872. We are barely keep
crage wheat crop OF the country now
ranges from 12A in ordinary years, TO
10 bushels per acre In the best seasons.
And so II Is oil down the line
But the fact OF soil waste becomes
startlingly evident when we examine the
record OF some states where single crop
ping and other agricultural abuses have
been prevalent Take the case of wheat,
the mainstay OF single crop abuse Many
OF us Gun remember when New York was
the great wheat-producing state Of the
acre I'm New York for the last ten years
was about Is bushels. For the first five
years OF that 10-year period it was 1S.4
bushels and for the last FIVE ia bushels.
In the farther west, Kansas takes high
rank as wheat producer. Its average
Yield per acre for the last ten years was
14.l6 bushels. For the first five OF these
years 1t was 10, IA and for the last five
1919. Up in the northwest. Mime sofa
wheat has made a name all over the
world Her average Yield per acre for the
same ten years was 1886 bushels For
the first five years II was 1912 and for the
last FIVE 12.S. We perceive here the work
Ing OF uniform law. independent Of To-
cation, soil or climate. 1t is the law OF A
diminishing return due to soil dcstruc-
ton Apply this to the country at large.
and ii reduces agriculture 10 the condl-
ton OF bank whose depositors are
steadily drawing out more money than
they put in
What Is true In this instance Is true of
our agriculture as n whole. In no other
important country in the world with the
exception Of Russia. is the industry that
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14

ent discussion. is not the difficulty hut
'he urgency OF the TASK. The whole arcu-
''lent is one not OF despair out OF rcas
surance' provided only that we do the OBJ
sIous indispensable and feasible thing.
and do il now
Ihs demand. In the shape of Increased
population. is reasonably definite: the
supply, In the form OF food products. de
Pehos upon two factors-land and labor.
At may be increased SO as 10 meet these
needs or the future II the area or the
product Per acre of the land can be In
tion. f'e S''G
Area Is inelastic Our public lands
alT , manly exhausted. few more wears
VIII sec the last OF them. And, lest they
snould not he squandercd quickly enough
we not only offer them 10 everybody nm
Ger conditions that invite and reward
fraud bat when the government finds H.
ser ourdened with a particularly choice
ana valuable tract OF farm land IL holds
lottery and distributes Il among Tom,
Dlck and Harry, no matter whether
farmers or spectators after they have
peen collected from distant parts of the
country by appealing to the passion for
Eanbling. The areas TO be obtained nv
rcclamation work would not. all told take
care OF our increase for two years. So
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Dy James HILL the Famous Railroad Builder and Finance Dr.

suppose. "pio'S as many
We grew 504.1s5.47o bushels IN 1890
wlem w ono our our population was a little over
"a Iang ,9oo'oo and 634 oS7. 900 bushels in
nyos cgos, CO twenty-five years later The i'm ~
crease III wheat yield during these vesrs
When much of the new lands of the wesi
was Dcing brought under the piow. was
d d nttle over 20 per cent. while nonn.
la ton Increased 5000 600. or over 81 4ope per
cent. Obviously supply and demand for for
pread WIZ not keep pace through the
working OF any law of nature '''S
moreover, the increase OF possible wheat
fleld by increasing acreage is limited We
nave no longer an unlimited public do
main awaiting the pIow There viii 10.
some grown upon reclaimed arid land
though this lis mostly devoted 10 ~.
raising OF fruit and fodder plants Tberc
VIII be some land drained. and there arc
a rev acres OF public lands left where
wheat may be raised "Aere
but ecnser population makes new do
nands upon the soil. and IL is more Jilso-
" on The whole that the wheat acroaoe
VIII ne reduced. for raising all the Other
commodities consumed by two hundred
argcd. W. "e eh-
Nothing but a material rise in price
could accomplish this; and We may, per
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ssssred the primary one of
sjiaSsnance of life. The food
s.l lag many collateral issues,
=, sxs OF simplicity we may
n 9my the matter of bread.
d IA are We TO obtain loaves
Hesss .nese coming millions?
EtsIt. yearly consumption Of
p ~ VARIES idera bly, with
csIs,ss. csI,~es. but IL rises steadily
lnSIantly advancing standard
"a ajIrlng recent years IL has
q h,,sssntly under or slightly
a irdsis irdss Tor bread and seed.
n, rsI y siI and one half bush
"uicn is certainly within
'lcSsff la REQUIRE, unless we are to
fi,@ oSc oscale OF living. q total
ead dsroU; s 900 bushels Of wheat
f osnupPly, If we did not eS-
sssnn MEM 1880 TO 1905 incIuglvo
ME- 521.72s. 900 bushels
lt1s only have we exceeded
"a ssS ssSSnei Sne mark. 1t is fair
'lssse' s'c,vvo. ". 900 bushels is o,ir
; SSeIsi Se capacity. or course with
ftsssS in, may come a some
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met bur ii we arc intelligent men we win
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There are two ways in which the pro-
duciiYc power OF the earth is .cssened
First, by erosion and The sweeping away
OF the fertile surface into streams and
thence TO the sea: and, second by ex-
hauStton through wrong methods of cul-
tiVation. The former process has gone
iar thousands OF acres In the east and
south have been made unfit for tilIapo'
North Carolina was, a century ago one
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- the farmer uepehos III
iEo ,ss future OF our country.
.'r ssrnred sr as any future event
= y - nonulation OF the United
= toe IN, 000, 900 by about the
y . ~rssrnt century, or In less
g This is proved by the
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Tickets on sale May -, 13 and II.
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|OD FOR OUR FUTURE 1VlNll0M@ MATl0M'@ VITAL PR0Bl

r Is we'll that the
eyes of the Ameri-
can people should
he turned on the
farms of the coun-
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icalIy depicted in
the picture. for
upon the future oi
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-02-03

correspondent to the Chicago
Daily News thinks that the temper
ance societies are "working at the
wrong end of things" because they
work TO do away with drink rather
than to do away with pJyerty, which :,
he saws, causes drunkenness. Chung
er and woe drive the poor man to the
saloon, where he finds temporary for
getfulness of his troubles" And. in
|cidentaily, he makes himself poorer,
| i'm every sense of the word. "Hunger
land wee do not drive the rich auto
|mobiIists into the saloon, where they
|render themselves fit for the accidents
that fill the daily papers. Some other
|causes than "hunger and woe must
be found for great part of the social
drinking that creates drunkenness and
ends in poverty. The News correspond
lent is greatly mistaken as to cause and
|effecls. rhe causes for the drink evil
|are to he found in the nature of the
drug alcohol, and in the greed of those
who are willing to rotit by other
mems vices. The drink evil is cause
pot the only cause, but a very great
cause o. po2ertS How can ii be other
wise, wnei this country spends more
for aiconJi than for tread? Two bill
|lion dul'Hf- lie gr,a at deal Of MONEY
for eigh : tni'Iiois Of people TO waste
|ln year. To spend that sum for Il
EblIghuug poison Is sufficient to make
tenn ERA 60 societies light ale MOL pri-
|marlly, anu poverty incidentally.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-02-03
tysander John is Desperate.
By Francis L.. Garside

q The Society of the High Browed will
meet in special session week from to-
night to decide if Lysander John
Appleton is murderer or near-mur-
derer, and it will be called at his re-
quest. He wants the brain atiinites of
his wife and daughter to decide on his
guilt or innocence, and this request is
barred on the accusations his wife has
repeatedly made.
"Don't slam the door, she said he
other evening. "You forget that hen
we were first married you slammed
the door so hard one evening il gave
my mother nervous shock, and she
was never well after that, and just
eleven years from that day she died.p
81 shall always feel, ".she said an
other time, "lhat your iraving about
Christmas expenses killed my cousin.
A man who haa consumption seven
years wasn't stong enough 10 be work
ed up by your abuse of a season so
holy.n
Hesfinds that his opposition to suf-
frage for women caused kin suffragette
to die O f h ock aud appendicitis; that
when his wife cooked clam chowder
one night at his demand 1t gave her
father stomach trouble that resulted
nineteen years Later in his death; that
every kin she has lost in the past thirty
years would be living now were it not
for Lysander John.
81 shall demand of the High Brow
you to take back your charges or order
me to be hanged"
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-02-03

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Wednesday. Feb. Is, 1911,

Wednesday. Feb. Is, 1911,
commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ. the following per-
soaal property to'wit
Head of Horses and Colts,
Dappled gray mare, Bird, years old, weight l4oo
TBS, No. barshear leader and in foel by roam Bel
ssigh, 9 5oo bs o"t good Salbsaq leader BRIGHT
bay mare, Fanny, weight laoo lbs, age yrs. II, a
fine driver and will work wherever hitched; bay
mare, Nell, weight l4{o lbs; oatshsar and wagon
leaoer. feal by Percheron horse, Garibaldi; Two
year old colts. These are hae heavy draft animals.
One fine yearling colt. Percheren.
IS Head of Cattle,
SIX milch cows, tour of which will be fresh by Gay
of sale; four fat viii weigh eight nine hun
bred each; tine Durham bull, three young hsers
will be fresh in spr,ng balance >re fine lot Of
young steers and helfers- ---v,.-,
IS Head of Hogs,
Two Chester white sows, one of which will have
pigs by lay Of sale the Others will arrow spras;
shoats will wei Ga loo lbs each balance will aver
age about IS lbs each by day ct sale
Farming Implements
One four horse stude5aker wagon, four Inch tread
nearly new: fifty busael bed two-horse Auaurn
wagon and bed, g. od spring wagon, falling top
buggy, Deering binders in good rohning order, two
mowers Walter A. Woo aud johnson; tive grain
druls, Pennsylvania new and Superior; Hoos-
iers corn planters with fertilizer attachment, two
Oliver Chilled oarshe pows No. 80, spring tooth
new.
Harness,
Two sets Yankee harness. three sets pillow geais
Niceiy's names; collars, brides, set check lines
leather hatsrs breast chains, lot single do H.
bic and thrbe trees and number Of articles TOO
numerous to m sntion.
Terms.
credit Of nine months will be given on al! sum S
OF ST. aud upward. the purchas to give his note
with approved security, segotiabls and payable At
The Merchants and Farmers Bank of Martinsburg
with interest from date but il paid maturity inter-
est rsmi.teA under sIo cash No property 10 be re-
moved until settled Ter
AL hscksiers Welcome bu, no strong cider allow
ed to be sold.
MYERS,
Dodd & Hoffman, Auct.
H&wood Bur hart.
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Millions of pounds of wool are i'm
ported annually to supply the home de-
mand. why not grow this wool on
your own soil and keep the money In
the family?
A healthy man is king in his own
right; an unhealthy man is an On
happy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters
builds up sound health-keeps you
we'll. l mo.
II pays to feed the colts grain.
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rirsilsat Ressries.

freight Reseries.
BY Mrs.. A. l.. Mcmillan.
When the night has drawn her cur
tains,
AND the candles have been lit;
" hen you sit you dow in silence.
AND Jou dream, and nod, and knit,
Know ye not your home so happy,
{. Free from every troubled air,
Shall lone day be dark and gloomy,
When deaths angel enters there?
And my sister, sweet and gentle,
Loved and cherished far and near.
aave yen not friend in sorrow,
Who would prize word Of cheer?
One whose lonely heart would cherish
Little " hisperings Of love?
White winged messengers, ., send
tls N.
Gisc y flies ;he carrier dove.
Drop your knitting then, 'til better
W7h Your zen and paper write;
0u HNNe Iaboteu through The morn
ing,
II viii give sweet rest tonight.
Just 10 pen some word of kindness
That may lit load of care,
II your heart o'erflows with gladuess,
Give to ore less glad a share.
Have smile for those " no love thee.
Have tear for those who hate;
When wayworn traveller cometh,
Open wide the vineyard gate.
And when darkness spreads her ban
ner -
q Meath the twinkling stars above,
Write those messages Of comfort,
Seal them with the kiss of love.