Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-07
FARMS
CONSERVATION
ARGUMENTS
Member of American Commission
Describes Methods That Pro-
duce Four Crops a Year.
BY ]. h. HASLAM.

Regina, Saskatchewan, Chairman
Commission to Investigate Aeri.
cultural Credits, Also European
Wheat Markets.
Special Gable to The Atlanta GeoraIan.
PARIS, July MY journey
through Europe has been a surprise
and a delight to me, and has been
instructive beyond all my expecta-
tons. 81.
have seen on the plains of Lom-
hardy agriculture carried on in a way
unequaled in any other part Of the
world. There four successive crops
are ganered annually, and eight
crops Of grass are cut from the same
land every year. There lands when
have been cultivated from an earlier
date than history records are more
fertile now than ever. ay .e..
The conservation of the natural re-
sources of the country we have visit
ed is brought to,a pitch that an Amer
lean or Canadian would have thought
impossible had he not seen it,
Hungarian Grain Best.
We have seen the splendid agricul-
ture of Hungary, where grain of
hlgher quality Is grown than in any
other part of the world and converted
into. flour in the mills of BUDAPEST of
a greater excellency than anywhere
else.
The agricultural and industrial de-
Velopment of Germany is. something
that we were in measure prepared
to see. We scarcely expected to find
a country no larger than Minnesota
and North Dakota. and with a soil al
together inferior, supporting a pop
ulation of $4,000 900 people and pro
dpcing 80 per cent Of the food neces-
sary to feed them.
We were likewise told that the
Germans could produce by their sci
entif1c methods Of, agriculture from
their reluctant and sandy soil enough
food for 100,000,000 people.
- Shows Americas Chance. -..
We have seen good crops grown by
the use Of commercial fertilizers on
what looked like pure sand. The in
dustry of Germany, which has been
developed from very small begin
nings in a little more than "A genera
ton, is only an indication and proph-
ecy to us of what our America can
, produce and become with its infinite
, ly greater natural resources.
There is scarcely a. natural con-
dition found in America which we
think incapable of development which
either in, Italy, Switzerland. Hum
gary. Germany, Belgium, Holland or
France has not beena overcome All
of these countries, together with
England, have not a, very. large frac-
ton of the agricultural possibilities
and in all have a population about
four times greater
We have seen much done less we'll
than I'M the United States and Can
ada. In Europe they do not utilize
labor-saving implements "a the same
extent, and in agriculture there seems
to be a tremendous waste Of human
energy. The horses, cattle, sheep and
pigs have as a rule not been brought
to such high observation-disclosures
Parcel Post a Model.
The European railway systems
are not as highly efficient as ours,
and charge much higher rates, but
we have not developed the parcel post
system, as continental Europe has
done, and, we must adopt their sys-
TEN of transportation on rivers and
canals if we. are properly to utilize
the best system of natural inland
waterways in the world.
We also must adopt means of util-
izing the low grade natural products
we have, and manufacture them in
the locality in which they exist and
thereby save transportation
The cost of distribution of goods in
America is an economic crime, and
the lack of organization among FARM
ers is yearly driving the best blood
of the nation from agriculture.