The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-07-31
WHAT BETTER
AGRICULTURE
is DOING

~ 'cAA1<sS sH~1s 'ot4A& anu "Ntt o44tto
two-and-a-haIf-page article in the
last Number Of Golfers Weekly by
Ewing Galloway and R. H. Moulton
on The Agricultural Revolution" can
hardly fall to command the attention
OF Canon City readers:
"In California the problems are
principally horticultural, and the Col
den State is handling the situation
without any special aid from the. out
side. The state government employs
a horticultural commissioner-xho no
happens 10 be A. J. Cook at the pres
ent time-wifh a star OF fourtesh
members. A large lnsectary. with an
efficient enfomologist in charge. il
maintained In the spacious Capitol
grounds at Sacramento. where para
sites which destroy harmful bugs are
bred b. the million. II Is not unusual
for the cntomoiosist to mall out 5000
colonies Of insects In two or three
days at certain seasons Of the year.
Each Of the forty-seven fruit pro-
ducing counties has from one TO three
local commissioners. and the number
OF inspectors In each Of these counties
Ia from one to fwenty-seven- State
and local officials keep the fruit grow
ers postsd on all the very latest and
bet methods OF production. and when
caiifornians fail to make q fne fruit
crop. weather conditions arc to blame.
-orecoa ana vashinston have syn
tens similar In many respects TO thst
OF California. though they are not con-
Quoted on 20 large a scale And Col
orado. Arisons. and Massachusetts are
doing In this line some work that Is
praise~orthy.
TEXAS. Of course. 10 not much OF a
fruis-grovtnx State. but g is doing
some very great things In an inde-
pendent way. The Texas Industrial
coaress. whose orgsnixafIon was
brought about In 1910 largely as the
result Of the enthusiastic EFFORTS Of
Colonel Henry ExsIi OF Dallas. pro-
notes interest In better agriculture
by giving prizes for the best acreage
yields Of the principal crops This
year there are 1885 contestants in
2is Of the 2ss counties In the STATIC.
and $4,000 will be distributed among
the prize winners. And in addition
to the Industrial Congress. Texas mas
mere good agricultural writer's on It's
daily newspapers than any other CON-
monweaitb. Most OF the dailies Stv,
nearly as much space to'farm topirs
as the New York and Chicago papers
give to crimes and domestic scandals
The Oklahoma papers are close Sec
onds.
But Il remained for Hawaii TO lead
all the rest OF Uncle Sans domain n
the art Of getting wealth out Of the
soil. II is not an cxsggcration to say
that Hawaii leads the world. Pract.s-
ally every acre OF tIliable land In She
Territory Is under cultivation ali unc
time. and IL is said that In some H.
stances $500 worth OF sugar has been
produced on a single acre OF ground.
An average of something like s2o sn
acre Is spent annually for fertilizers.
s~1'he Sugar Planters Association
,maintains an experiment station OF -
own at cost of $4,000 year. rhe
Territory has Commissioner OF Agit-
culture and Forestry with stan OF
fifteen members. and spends approx
mately $4,000 a year. And the Bu-
rcau Of Plant Industry has n large
experiment station at Honolulu under
tho management Of e. v. Wilcox. one
of the most competent men connected
with tho Department of Agriculture.
The sugar planters of Hawaii have
more trouble with insects than any
thing else. and most of the funds =r
proprIatcd for the maintenance OF the