The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-11-15
GROWING 16O-ACRE CROPS
ON 80-ACRE FARMS

EkljWINu I0U-AUnC UnUTS
ON 80-ACRE FARMS
The value of farm lands in the
limited States jumped from SIS. 81
ner acre to s32.49. per acre between
1900 and 191O-more than doubled
in ten years.
/. So that the average farm, which
len wears ago would have cost s1O,-
600, today requires the investment
$4,000 or more.
In some way or other the interest
On this inflated cost must be paid.
So far it has been paid by the public
through the increased cost of living
for every item which figures in
the cost of living originates with the
things that are grown from the soil.
But the cost of living cannot con-
tinue to increase indefnitely-itca can
not permanently stay even at it's
present high level.
If it goes up the wage Garner is
HEADED toward bankruptcy.
If it goes down, with farm values
as they now are, the farmer is head
ed toward bankruptcy.
Or, to go back of the surface facts,
the congested cities have dou bled
their demands on farm output
while farm output, per acre, has re-
NAMED at a practical standstill.
The obvious way to combat the
high cost of living, and those other
problems caused by and incident to
city congestion, is to show the farm
/. ers of the world how to use methods
which will help them raise 16O-acre
crops on S0.acre farms.
At an annual cost of $50, 900, 900
/ the Federal Government, the vari-
GUS states, and their educational in
stitutions are helping the farmers of
America to increase the production
Of their soil, thus improving their
own individual conditions and CIV
ing the public better foods at lower
prices.
Yet in spite of the annual expendi-
ture, the result has been merely to
increase the average acre yield about
three per cent in ten years. Nearly
s2,0O0,000,0OO spent in ten years
to produce three per cent gain
and the cost of living has gone up
and up and up.
|. In California, by means of the
simplest methods-spade and shovel
methods methods which any farm
er can easily apply. Luther Burbank
has shown the world that it is pos
.sible to make one acre produce what
took ten acres to produce before
has given the world thousands of
newer and better fruits, vegetables,
grains, forage plants, trees and
plants which yield valuable SUBJ
stances for use in manufactures.
For popular application of Luther
Burbank's methods, the Luther Bur-
bank Society has been chartered by
the State of California to assist in
compiling and placing minute in
I formation directly into the hands of
= those who derive their livihood from
the soil.
The Luther Burbank Society is not
organized for profit. 1t will place
the results of Mr.. Burbank's life
work. written in clear, easily un-
derstandable form, and illustrated
with direct color photographs, in
the hands of the many at a nominal
cost.
The farmers of America are spend
Ing millions of dollars a year for
harvesters, threshers and other farm
machinery which, at best, can enable
them to produce possible Is to 20
per cent increase in farm output.
What then must be the value OF
these Burbnn'k methods which,
without investment, will show how
iarm output may be ultimately in
creased by possible 100 per cent?
What must be the value OF these
methods placed within easy reach