The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-19

widen in acreage variety and volume of product. as it will become still more profitable.
 A large part of the total values shown above is necessarily independ- ent of markets and independent of moEket products since the vegetables direct from the garden is the season able delicaey fresh and unimp
 by changesof climate or delay of time. |
 4 few of the statistics of produce ton of the more conanercia al articles in this group, together with their market values, will serve to illustrate it's financial importance. By the 1910
 census the value of the miscel1ane vegetables amounted to $2O9, ,548,021- By the same returns, the onion pro
 duct amounted to $6.70e, ,o47. For 1911 the Irish potato crop was estimated by the Department of Agriculture to be 292,737z0O0 bushels valued at $233,- 77S.0o0; sweet potatoes by the census returns 5s. s.2s2.070 bushels. value s35,- 4e9,176; peanuts (census) 19,416s816a bushels, value $1S.271.929. By the census castor beans were grown to the amount of 2s077 bushels, value $3, ,432, dry beans 11s251, 16o bushels. value $z1,771, ,482. flax seed 11911 y. Dept. est. 1e, 370, 900 bushels, value $35,- 272.ooo; cottBh seed (1s11 (Dept. lest 6,s97, 70 O0s tonss vaIue{ $127.42o,00O:: dry peas lcensus) TIPS, ,s94 bushels, value $1D, 96 8, ,7895 clover seeds (cen-
 sus1 1,o25,816 bushels, value $6,925,- 122; grass seeds (census1 6.671, ,34e bushels value $15.18T.6sS.
 The total cereals (1911) amounted to 4. 4.2S0S205, 900 bushels. value $2, 6s4.- 994sOOo; beet sugar 5l1911) 1,23S, ESQ., 1 900 pounds, value $28. s95.781; cane sugar (191O-119 1s1O8,90o tons, value | $2S.8 CA, sos; maple sugar (censusl I II, 1,06e, 20 pounds, value $1.38o,492. While the food value Of vegetables
 is small in comparison with that of I the cereals, and seed selection thereof 1 of correspondfngIy less economic in terest, there are important social con- alterations involved worthy of serious
 attention. Suburban life is a civic question promising much good to so- ciety and politics. The city prob Hem is eyer present. Manufacture is
 seeking cheap lands outside the cor porate. limits and the 'High-cost of l living, is forcing the city worker into l the country. This group, therefore, at I the Panama Pacific International Elk j position, is a subject of study to legis-
 ators, and affords a demonstration of I prime educational value. to the sociol- Il ogist. To relieve the. congestion of cities tends to purify its political ad- npinistration; and to make the home t'rnore attractive adds to the culture of
 the community Health gandNa higher intellectual and spiritual life, are en- l hanced by encouragement of acre farming adjacent to the large cities. 4 It is we'll, therefore, to consider this
 group in its relation to the life of the people. Intensive and scientific farming
 are here exemp1ified at their best. The
 independence of the individual follow
 ing any city vocation is undoubtedly T increased by gaining Ia living out of Il the gardens
 It follows that what may be lost to
 the average farmer in this group is
 compensated by general interest and
 value to s.upHft." Agriculture is never 1 estimated in the scheme of life with Tout recognition of it's spiritual side
 Horticulture, the production of the flower, leads immediately to beauty ff But the deeper beauty of growth as
 seen in the veined leaf of the forest
 and the delicate sprout of the garden
 is still closer to nature. A speaker
 recently, while declaring that all i, growth in nature is indicative of life admitting the mystery of plant assim-
 ilation, exclaimed: And yet in this
 wondrous loom the atomic shuttle flies . and the result is the pal1id petal o1 the rlyi'' And so it is.. that the study
 of the agricultural garden leads to a higher life of. the people. To watch
 the unfolding processes of nature -iI , the intensified and carefully cultivated
 suburban acre bears abundant fruit ir
 acquired knowledge, community of in-
 terest, and reverence for law. And , from possession of these emanate hu- ' man happiness and good government Butter advanced one and one-hal. < cents to 30, cents a pound at Elgin. , k At East Norwich, l.. l., the fremer Z saved the $2oo.oOo mansion of Loy6 : c. Grisconn, in the Wheat1ey Hills.
 President Wilson nominated charles E Stewart of Alabama to be chie1 l clerk of the department of justice
 at Andrew J. Peters Of Nfassachusett. H r-F %t,e 4-,.e.o r,11,-r-