Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-03-07
POINTS FOR SUCCESS
Sunshine and Nitrogen Are Two
Great Essentials.
Flowing Under Of Turf, Mixed In
With Little Irrigation, Farmer
Never Need Fear Failure
Increase Fertility.

INCREASE
The farmer man or boy must be
constantly reminded OF the value OF
crop rotation. live stock. grazing.
barn-yard muck. good seed and deep
ullage or he will not get along very
we'll Only the other day Burbank
/ told me that the two great essentials
In our economic existence are sun
shine and nitrogen-the one and the
same but interchangeably different in
producing all that the world con-
tains. writes Eugene H. Grub in the
Denver Field and Farm. With these
essentials and the blowing under the
turf mixed in with a little irrigation
we will never have q crop failure. We
will continually increase fertility and
get larger yields. just as do the farm
e-s OF Great Britain.
II is a deplorable fact that the
American farmer is producing, under
the most favorable conditions, only
onethird OF the crops which the Eu-
ropean farmer is raising under ex-
tremely bad conditions. Another sig
nihcant fact is that the fertility and
productivity Of the European farm is
gradually increasing while that Of the
average United States farm is de-
cEeasing, in about the same inverse
ratio. This is true. despite the fact
that the farms Of Europe have BEEN
worked for 1000 years. The corn
area OF the United States is practi-
cally developed. There are no new
fields except in Argentina where we
can look for increased production OF
corn for human food or the making
Of meats.
The only solution Of the problem OF
securing cheaper prices for the food
Of the people Of this nation is TO
double or treble the acre yield. The
capabilities Of the soil are treble. If
not quadruple, what the land is now
being made TO show. We cannot TOO
soon adopt the methods and princi-
pies OF European agriculture. The
stinginess Of the United States gov
eminent in appropriating q measly
slo,OuO,000 year for the furtherance
Of the great cause of agriculture is
almost inconceivable. Practically the
entire wealth Of the country is Great
ed by the farmer and the miner. Out
d the earth comes wealth In nearly
all its forms. The value Of the ma
lions crops approaches 5000. OOO. 900
annually and this amount can be
trebled If the farmer is given the
proper knowledge of scientific meth
DDS. The prosperity which will en-
sue will reach every line OF industry
without exception.
Inc appropriation by the govern
ment for agricultural purposes should
not be one cent less than 500. 600. 600
every year. Il would be incompar.
ably the best investment that CON
sress could make. One OF the most
factors for the education OF
the farmer along right lines is the az
ricuitural college yet this institution
IS giving the farmer of the nation
only half-measure. We are TODAY
nlsapplying the revenues from the |
horriIl act The bill, enacted in the
Early sixties, was most wise In its
conception. 1t provided ample funds |
or the education OF the masses along
agricultural and mechanical lines hut
We are not getting it II the wise pro-
'lsions OF that act were carried out.
PARTICULARLY the one requiring that
'ach and every student shall work
lot less than two nor more than four
lours day at manual labor in the
leld or shop. our free AGRICULTURAL
chools would not be overcroyded nv
nen and women seeking university
rotessions TO the exclusion of many
Tho are earnest in their desire 10
onquer soil problems.
II the student is pursuing a literary
curse exclusively in the Agricultural
ollege, where he does not belong he
'ouio soon seek other sources of cul-
ire. Only by a combination of the
echnlcal study of the class room
Nd the practical work Of the field the {
lrner student can be educated I'D 70 Z
lie fullness Of his capacity to get the
lost from the feed lot and the soil |
mother regrettable fact of our insti.
luons and conditions is the loss of
lie apprenticeship system in our {
AIDES. We are now compelled 10
ny upon the mechanics that come
ON Europe 10 do our work. If the {
'ricultural colleges would live I'D 10 {
e requirements Of the Morrill, act
would give the American boy an /
'portunity TO acquire a mechanical ?
lucation. :