The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-11-29
SAM SMALL ON CONSERVATION

ISAM SMALL On CONSERVATION.
Sam Small in speaking on conser.
walton in his address at the Method.
list Church Saturday evening spoke
Of the manner in which they harvest.
ed and sold the cotton crop when he
was a boy. The cotton seed was
piled up by itself and the stock care
fully herded away from it. It was the
work Of the boys to keep the cows
away for fear 1t might poison the
milk II eaten, Day after day and
week after week the boys guarded
the piles of seed. After the ginning
was all over the seed was hauled out
in wagons and dumped into the gull
lies where it would be washed away
or SO mixed with mud that stock
would not disturb it. 1t was not
even spread upon the land for fertili-
zing, but gotten rid of as completely
as possible.
The cotton seed is now saved as
carefully as the cotton. It is
ground up and the oil squeezed out
and sold. The best grade of oil is
/ shipped to France and doctored up
and we buy it back for olive oil
Other grades of it are made into cot
oline and sold to us and we use it
as substitute for lard in baking
The pulp or pumace remaining after
all the oil is squeezed out is known
, in commerce as cotton seed meal and
is shipped to the dairying sections
to be fed to mich cows. The hulls
Of the seed are used for packing in
the journals Of cars. In these var
ious ways is the seed Of the cotton
plant conserved 80 that it represents
millions Of dollars in commerce.
Daniel Webster in his great speech
at the laying of the corner stone Of
the Bunker Hill Monument on the
18th of June, 1925, in speaking of
the great material advancement Of
the age, boasts that 1.-THE great for
ests Of the west have been prostra-
ted beneath the arm of industry, and
dwellers on the banks of the Ohio
and the Mississippi have become
the fellow citizens and neighbors Of
those who cultivate the hills Of New
England"
What that great statesman boast
ed of then is one Of the things that
people deplore now. Men spent their
lives telling and burning the hne
walnut forests of Ohio, only to find
that they had destroyed the greatest
fortunes, besides subjecting their
country to the greatest floods in
consequence of the lack of protect
ion which the forests afforded for
the gradual melting of SHOWS and the
gradual running-off Of the waters
that fell upon the lands. Now q
great national problem confronts US,
with regard to conserving the little
forests we have left and reforesting
the barren lands made desolate by
just such enterprise as Daniel Web
ster commended. We have also the
monumental task of controlling the
lower Mississippi in its aggravated
condition due to loss of forests and
prairie sod.
Twenty years after Webster made
this speech he said he was opposed
to spending single dollar for the
acquisition or opening up Of the i'm
passable mountain barriers and track
less desert wastes comprising the
country lying between the Missouri
river and the Pacific ocean, and yet
Webster's speeches constitute some
of the gems of our literature.
But to return to Sam Small and
his temperance address, he said that
the Steel Trust and the Standard oil
company are accused of robbiny the
public right and left, and of having
worked their men twelve hours al
day and worn them out in drudgery