Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-21

TkSA>A4V moves the world to do his bidding
He waves his wand the deserts and ten blades Of
grass spring up where has grown before He
puts his FOrtunatus flies to the Atlas
tains, bringing back macaroni wheat which adds bill
lions of loaves to national bread scours
the earth for nuts and fruits and from China
Japan brings rice which yields thousand-fold the
lowlands of Louisiana and He shakes his magic
rod and the nitrogen Of the air is harnessed bac-
teria which make Mother Earth produce has not
produced before. He shows the farmers how to
double their and the planters how add millions
to the value of their cotton is the friend of the
helpful hen and the little APPLE and in short the
mightiest gen of all those in the employ of our ma
tional ruler Uncle Sam, Patriarch
Eighty Thousand Million Dollars.
first Secretary Wilson when he had just taken
his seat of the members of President McKin-
ley's cabinet. That was fourteen years ago. and he
has been working wonders ever since He is plain
Scotch farmer, but he deals sums that would stag
ger Morgan Guggenheim. During the past ten
years the proceeds Of farms have been than
eighty billion dollars
Eighty thousand millions! 1t means enough to give
tour Thousand dollars to every family or eight hun
bred dollars to every man, woman and child in the
whole United States. That has come out of the
farms within ten years and yearly the product in
creases When the present secretary took charge Of
the Department of Agriculture annually amounted
TO about four billions of dollars In 1910 1t al
most nine billions and when the present scheme of
farm improvement and new crops have been generally
adopted shall be rich enough to buy Mexico and
Canada and to inaugurate peace movements through
out the world.
Eighty thousand million dollarsi
The is beyond human conception. 1t is ten
millions than ali the wealth of Great Britain and
Ireland.
It is than twice the value Of all Russia owns
four times the total wealth of Austria Hungary and
over fifteen times that Of Holland Spain.
One Years Farm Crop.
Coming down to the crops of a single year, secre-
tRFy Wilson tells me that during 1910 our farmers
yanked almost nine billion dollars out of Mother
Earth's pockets That would come within 10 per
cent OF the government of every country
earth, and it would pay nine-tenths all the salaries
Of those governments including their armies and
navies and every other employee from the kings who
sit the thrones to the women who scrub the palaces
and public offices
Nine thousand millions of money year means Just
shout thirty millions for every working day It
means more than million dollars for every hour.
twenty-thousand dollars for every minute and
three hundred and thirty-three dollars for every
second. Take out your watch and look at it's face
Follow the second hand II measures the minutes.
Every time It goes around its little dial our farmers
are adding $4,000 to national wealth Now put
II to and listen to the ticking. Every tick
means more than three hundred dollars. and that
three hundred added with every tick day and night
1t is the man who has had much to do with making
this wealth that you talk with today. ] am merely,
the photograph, and through the secretary of Ag
rioulture Is speaking to YOU We are sitting in Mr.
Wilson's office and the secretary is talking of Uncle
Sam, Patriarch
Ten Years With the Farmer.
Says he:
'It 10 the duty Of the government to take care of
citizen and It should study his comfort in every
possible way Il should show him how to husband his
nd II
nation. These of the things We are trying
to do and must also of these are doing"
Can you give idea OF your work for the
farmers2"
I'VE not working for the farmers alone" was
the reply This department is all the people 1t
affects every man, and child in the country
and it's sphere is increasing each year We are now
spending $15,000,000 per annum and the whole OF
this is used for Investigations operations which
tend to the increase of national and individual
wealth. We have more than ~ 600 employees, and we
have trebled our force within the past ten years"
Canyon tell me some of the things you are doing
Mr. Secretary"
II could mention hundred, and the work OF each
would give you the material for very good letter
You will have TO visit the bureaus and will see that
everything is thrown open to you. Ths'is great
pertinent station, consisting of army OF practical
scientists who working along all sorts II
you want 70 know about aerial navigation will turn
you over TO Prof Moore and he viii tell you the re-
suit the latest investigations OF upper air II
you would know about forests l send you to
the chief of that service. He has 200 men under
him and he takes of $1,000 900 acres Of woods
Would you like to know about cOokingH We have
chemists who are studying foods and who win put