The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-13

country at large through the greatly
increased GRO Yields which much
necessarily result from the applica-
ton OF correct methods.
y better demonstration of the
great and Immediate Improvement
arising from practical demonstration
work need be looked for thai the
growth of the beet sugar industry in
recent Years from nothing to a point
where is now supplies more than half
the sugar grown in the United States.
Everyone of h seventy-one beet sug-
ar factories distributed throughout
seventeen states owes it's successful
existence to the fact that it is virtually
1t center for instruction in the best ag-
ricultural practices. Sugar beef grow
ing cannot be made profitable other
wise than upon scientific lines. The
crnp requires more than ordinary care
and Skill. bat because of its profitable
ness m have been keen to take
advantage of the instruction afforded
them by the expert agriculturists m
ployed by the beet factories to
show them how to get the best re-
suits from their crops.
Nor is this instruction confined to
methods OF raising the bc"ts since the
best results for both factory and the
GARNER arc achieved by growing them
in q four-Ncar rotation with other
crops. The indirect benefits Of g
beet growing. through the compre-
hcnsivc instruction in all around sci
entific farming which is AN economic
necessity Of this industry, have led
both Secretary Wilson and DR.. Wiley
10 champion the sugar beet industry
of the country and to oppose vigorous
lT its threatened destruction by the
Gt n ,..1 of Tho t.riff S,t-. az, cJlpar
The farmer in the beet terri
tory who sees his ~neighhor's profits
increase on every kind Of crop through
the application Of correct farming
taught by the factory experts is not
slow to follow suit. The lesson has
been brought directly to his 20 and
the same would be true in the case Of
the establishment Of an adequate
number Of vocational schools.
Put in order 10 make the best use
of the knowledge which has been ac-
! uuired there must he also a proper
! distribution of the population upon
the farms and in the cities and even
more important is the character Of
the workers 10 be distributed. It is in
1 this connection that eugenics e a
close and vital relation to the science
Of agriculture. The best blood Of the
race has always been contributed by
the countr to the city and must al
ways be. Consideration of that fact
reveals the ~faliacy of the so-called
'back-to-the-farm' movement in so far
as it means the return to the farm
from the cities of those who have
proven failures. Charity is misguid-
ed which seeks to send the derelicts
of the city to rural communities since
it is but weakening the future vigor
and efficiency of the ace at it's source.
No survey of the future having for its
purpose increased efficiency of the
race is complete without full recogni-
ton Of the intimate relation Of eugen-
les Of agriculture in a practical sense.
BY making farm life as attractive as
possible through such dissemination of
knowledge as will bring to rural COM
munities the greatest possible financial
reward and through the expenditure
of such public funds as may be neces-
sarY. more of the most virile element
will he kept in the environment which
will Enable it naturally to fulfill its
function of increasing the ~preponder-
hnce Of the hest blood. Every inf1u-
cnce which would have a natural tend
ency to encourage a result such as
this deserves energetic encouragement
n p~erpetuation."