The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-25


In coming from Fifty-seventh
street down to the auditorium, on the
Illinois Central, the back lots of the
American houses, seen from the cars,
shabby, dirty and unkempt, are abb
solutely distressing and shocking to
those who have positive views in re-
gard to making land either useful or
beautiful.
Every such back lot in Germany
and France and England or Belgium
or Holland would be a valuable veg
etable garden ornamented with flow.
ers. We can be engaged in no bet
ter business than in leading our peo-
pie back to the use, and the perfect
use, of our most precious heritage
the land. Let us get back to the
land.
The Value Of the Farm as a National
Resource.
Our farms produced last year
eigth thousand millions of created
wealth Our cotton crop alone fur
nished enough export cotton to give
us balance of trade in our favor.
The output OF the American farm, by
proper cultivation, could, however,
be Immediately doubled, and by re-
claiming waste places with proper
cultivation, could easily produce
over twenty billions Of wealth per
annum-a sum about equal to the
total accumulation Of a century In
the banking resources in all OF oor
$4,000 banks.
"The work OF such men as Luther
Burbank of Santa Rosa, Cal, In Inn
proving plant life has value OF
which our people generally have had
no adequate conception. He is en-
titled to the grandest monument ever
erected on American soil, and ! move
he be given the crown OF laurel In
national reception. 8HH
I'm oklahoma a new plant has
been developed from the common
seeding Bermuda, called the Hardy
Bermuda" which has great national
value. It has been developed by care
full selection OF plants which have
withstood severe freezing. The plant
has as good nutritive quality as tim
othy; II comes up early in the spring;
1t has a root over foot deep; 1t
grows almost as thick as the hair
on the head; it grows luxuriantly in
the face of dry weather; will sue
cessfully stand the most extreme
drouth; is not killed by many days
of overflow; will grow on alkali
spots and in the sand. 1t will pro-
duce a very large amount of food
to the acre, and is an excellent graz
ing grass. 1t is impossible to exag
gerate the value of a plant OF this
character, which will convert land
heretofore unproductive into pro
ductive areas Of great value. Oui
people must have food, and this plant
will produce great food supplies
from land heretofore producing moth
ing. We must emphasize making oui
lands more productive by using prop
er suitable plant life and concentrat
ing labor on the land.
Improvement Of the National Health
THE annual death rate OF New
Zealand is nine to thousand, and o
the various Australian states, ten L
thousand In the United States
is over sixteen to a thousand-6O pc
cent more than in Australia. IL on
people can be led back to the farm
where they can get plenty OF fresl
air, fresh vegetables, milk and but
ter and chickens, we will save tn
lives which now amount to owe
half million beings per annum Il
excess of what 1t ought to be.
THE tables OF mortality show tina
this high death rate is very Target
due to the bad housing, bad food an
bad sanitary conditions OF the yer
poor in our congested cities.
in the fight on tuberculosis abuI
dant fresh air has been demonstra
ed to be essential to a recover!
Abundant fresh air is essential
keep people well who are not sicl
and is all the more important whe
they become afflicted with the e,
tremely dangerous tubercle bacillus
Let us encourage our people to 81
back to the land, and we shall grea
ly improve the national heath,
Improvement In seis.neliance an
other Moral Qualities.
In cultivating the land, all of III
moral qualities are stimulated, ind