The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-09
CURRENT COMMENT
Plenty to Follow Poverty.

food should take heart to remember one thing.
Such spring the present one is usually fol-
abundance.
The most important industry in this country
is the live stock Industry. It's products in a
year exceed by 40 per cent the value Of all the
iron and steel produced annually in the United
States.
/ Now year of foods is always a year of grass
Pastures VIII he fat this year and meadows
stand waist high. Our chief industry will receive
/ Il wonderful stimulus Floods NAV drown ont
crop Of hay. and the hay crop of the United
states IS worth more than 40 per cent more than
the wheat crop We think little about IL be
cause II is chiefly consumed on the farm and
reaches the market in the form Of meat but
year OF good grass is good year for the
American farmer.
Another thing; A wet spring extends the mar
gin or profitable cultivation westward. on the
PFaliies the btue-stem grass will invade areas
usually given over to buffalo grass and farmers
west OF the ninety-eighth meridian viii see the
S49IlS OF a good corn year and plant acc0rdfngfv
Golden streams of grain will converge m
/ Omaha as July passes into August The rich
valleys Of Ohio the fifth state in INC Tryl,,, ~
value Of agricultural products vii o,' ,l'Vai ~
grass and corn spring wakes into summer ana
4oo me wealth Of their dairy and meat products
j +" the food supply of the nation Strange az Il
may seem, with the very desructiveness ~ storm
a ,,h rood are bound up those bensdcent forces
"h!rh multiply the cattle on thousand bftls
and make the valleys laugh with abnndart ha
Fests--St. Louis Republic ~
The Defenseless Microbes
Humane societies are supnosad ~ ,4o..
aufno animals against the cruelties Of human
6I 9ut when Il comes TO fight between
I ouhp animals, with no humans intcrfort,e-
which side Is such society 10 take? Us
~ ieh humane society takes the part Of a
record as '-4tnSl mankind it puts itself on
I d fEher SO much is simple hut corn ILL., 80,
nrai1rt Ines arise. For instance take the
PlooitHd % the gulls upon the Massac husetts
~. Fishermen insist that sea euIIs are nuisance
since cheE take lot of fish which human ST.
men should catch. The gulls are ~ iilIi
gAPe,L ~ TACT that bin was introdnred ~
me Massac husetts legislature FIR ~ tle ~
the fishermen 1t was Ia allow , ensenl OF
SHo9t kuIis And the bin was defeated ~, nc he
The Audubon society r,ra.,o,,.
I'm INC interests of the birds Tnfort,t,,,9
Itt T4 no society for the Welfare Of 10
came just before the bird IN - oi'at me fish
/ 49, win maybe reptile or So het1,oa ~
nestle hr,,to a next II one protects the do
y+sr4 - ute against the domesticated br,ta ~
'. 80 beast against the tame the ornrtf, me
eealn e ne !4hd dweller and So on down ~
ita d 9ufsE Tue fish should be protected i ,ils
us descendant the bird -CIeve,an5 bl tu against
Australlas New Cani,o,
aaron Denlnan, governor seperai ~ 49,.
tba 49, 49, me torne rstone Of the new, canit1 a >
had nln eaith last month. The cerenon1
4 80, more imam a neiEhborly eieet;e , ~ lioily
people IN this country for ~ (ISHlhcahce to
- a. lsueTatloh was designed nv ~, 80 tlt5
M lt5S Ialu out along lines s,I0east.i a. ~
me city OF Washington The Sakgested ny
~ rs we did when more ,har 4aiIS dfd
/ ~ $50 it-NV ~ a tract IN the woods ana 49,
~ eIect on it a model city to he ~ oeclded
Chose @t ~ activities Our Southern cos,0 81
n q sr.e IN Ne" South Wales and have a7iS
~ -, t-ohperra after the name Of tho H.. tailed
which It is located 1t includes tys sIFIet FL. IN
o9otie Hlies and embraces two hills n1 i've
eich side of the Molompio rivor r.. oue on
1Lahans are preparing to erect on it Their aus,
ana other government buildings 'p''oi
A[chltects from all parts Of the world vro
tnEitea TO submit plans for the proposed unaor
taxing Many OF the foremost men in tbeir
profession in Great Britain and on the conttnent
paruGlpateo IN the contest The first prize was
awarded to Chicagoan w. b. Griffin who has
adapted TO Australian conditions the plan vs.
nave carried out so successfully in making
Washington one of the most beautiful netronoIi
tan districts in the world.--St. Paul Dispatch