Lower coast gazette., 1913-07-05
larged production per acre is general through
out the United States.
BY referring to the Crop Reporter for Janu-
ary. 1911. we find q similar statement:

By referring to the Crop Reporter for Janu-
airy, 1911, we find a similar statement:
That the final stage of better agriculture and
increase production has been reached in many
States for a varying number of crops, and that
production per acre is not only beginning to ex-
coed the normal increase of population, but
really to exceed the actual increase.
The potentially of agricultural production as
a national achievement sufficient for growth
of population has been so numerously and so
thoroughly demonstrated as to be now beyond
intelligent question. The Farmers Co-opera-
tive Demonstration Work, now carried on in IL
cotton States, employs 375 travelling agents and
has many thousands of demonstrating farms. 1t
is proving by results on thousands of farms that
preparation of the soil so as to make the best
seed bed adds 100 per cent to the average crop
on similar lands with an average preparation
in the old way that the planting of the best seed
makes a gain of SO per cent; and that shallow,
frequent cultivation produces an. increase OF
another so per cent, making a total gain OF 200
per cent, or crop three times the average crop.
It will be noted that all of this enormous in
crease is secured with no suggestion Of soil
enrichment, in strict harmony with the errone-
GUS teachings of the Departments Bureau of
Soils:
The soil is the one indestructible, immutable
asset the nation possesses. It is the one re-
source that can not be exhausted; that can not
be used up. It is evident that it can not
wear out, that so far as the mineral food is
concerned it will continue automatically to sup
DIV adequate quantities of the mineral plant
foods for crops. AS a national asset the
soil is safe as a means of feeding mankind for
untold ages to come.
CROP ESTIMATES MEASURED BY H CENSUS.
Fortunately, there is a trustworthy measure
applied to the progress or retrogression OF this
country every ten years, when every farmer
and land owner in all the States must make a
sworn statement to the Bureau OF Census IN
regard to his crops and herds; and, fortunately
this statement is not subject to subsequent re-
vision or imitation by any Estimates" OF the
"Crop Reporting Board with an Optimistic"
secretary of agriculture as the chairman.
Thus, while the crop statistics of the agri-
cultural department claim an increase OF 5O per
cent in the production of corn in the Southern
States from 1899 to 1909, the data from the U.
y. BUREAU VI CcISuS. SIlUW OH oCtudl OSSAVooS
of Z per cent. In other words, the Department
Of Agriculture reports that the total produc-
ton of corn for the thirteen States from Texas
and Arkansas to the Atlantic, and south OF the
Ohio and Potomac, was increased by 239 mil
lion bushels from 1899 to 1909; while the fig
ures from the Bureau of Census prove that in
stead of an increase there was a positive de-
crease of 81 million bushels.
The accompanying statistical data and gra-
phic illustrations reveal the percentage Of in
fation or boasting by the agricultural depart
ment as compared with the census facts relating
to corn production in the individual States.
STATISTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
The census reveals an increase in the popula-
ton of contiguous continental United States OF
81 nor cont during the last. decade (frOm 76