The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-11-18
HOMELY WISDOMS BY A
NOTED AGRICULTURIST
THOMAS A. SHAW, EXPERT FOR HILL LINES,
GAVE FARMERS VALUABLE POINTERS
CONTAINED SOUND LOGIC
CONTAINED
Probably One of the Most Clear and Able Talks
Farming and Livestock Ever Heard in this
Community-Great Crowd Present

Before an audience that filled ever.
seat in the large hall and left large
number of absorbed listeners standing
near the entrance door, Thomas Shaw
agricultural expert for the Grea
Northern lines, and for more thar
thirty years one of the most, celebrated
successful, and practical agricul
,tural scientists on this continent, de-
livered an address which for sheer
interest, specific information, vivid IL
illustration, and competent, homely adj
vice has never been equalled by any
person who has ever spoken here on
farming subject From the nom
,ent when Mr.. Shaw took possession ol
the floor until he sat down after an
hour and half of earnest, brilliant
speaking, farmers, business men, and
agricultural students drank in his
.every word as if it were as absorbing
as a romance.
Sounded Like Romance
Indeed, Mr. Shaw's narrations of
his .singularly rich experiences were
like romances and his impassioned,
final plea for the change in methods
stock growing and diversified crops for
the persistent growing of wheat on
Palouse lands was met by burst of
applause which must have convinced
the speaker that his words were not
lost and that the farmers who heard
him were converted by his liable ar
guments.
Mr. Shaw is an entertaining speaker
10 .hoc viz ctu1 q How
language, a clear voice, and a slight
Scotch Canadian accent most pleasing.
His eye is full of fire, but 1t has the
kindly sympathetic CLEAN of man
who knows the world and knows life
and it's problems. Young men and old
feel in his manner, his voice, and his
gaze the expression of sincere interest
in their welfare as well as a profound
knowledge and an understanding
heart.
W.. Il. Carlyle Presided
Promptly at two o'clock the great
meeting was called to order by Presi-
dent Byrns, who promptly introdnced
Nv. L. Carlyle, the erstwhile pupil and
lifelong admirer and friend of Mr..
Shaw. Mr.. Carlyle paid hearty and
beautiful tribute to his master and
enumerated the great men who,
through Mr.. Shaw's teaching, have be-
come easily the foremost agricultural
scientists in 'either Canada or the Unit
ed States Mr. Carlyle told of Mr.
Shaw's splendid reputation and of the
noble character on which that repu-
tation FOR so many years has rested.
He told how Mr.. Shaw had been taken
from his distinguished labors in the
University of Minnesota to become the
teacher of the most powerful and i'm
portant pupil of his lifetime, James
j. Hill; and he sketched the kind Of
invaluable service which Mr.. Shaw has
performed IN the way of selecting for
Mr.. Hill the choicest live stock to be
had in England and of preaching the |
gospel of small farms, diversified crops |
and the growing of livestock.
Mr.. Shaw'S Address
Mr.. Shaw, responding to the fiatter-
ing Introduction by his constant ad-
mirer and faithful pupil, said in part:
Il would be, indeed, most nngrateful I
if did not feel like thanking Mr.. Car
lyle for his very kind words. 1t has
always afforded me a keen pleasure to
follow the careers of my pupils, and l
have not been more interested in any
of them than / have in that of Mr..
Carlyle. / regret deeply and it sad
dems me for your sakes to know that
bis services are to be taken from Idaho.
This Palouse country is easily one
Of the most beautiful and one of the
richest in all of the United States. 1t
has been settled more than forty years.
and in all that time has produced
wheat abundantly and is still doing
so. That means that you have here a
most extraordinary soil for if it were
not. it would never have withstood the ]
strain and drain thus put upon 1t.
regret to hear that the yields of wheat
are not what they were. This is most
1t is an entirely avoid
,ble condition. The yields of wheat in ]
Great Britain are greater now than
hey were five hundred years ago and
greater than they were thousand
vears ago.
II can not get away from the con-
,iction that in this country around +
lere another industry must be intro
luced, the growing of live stock.
Glad to Impart Ideas h
1T is. of course, always a difficult
ask to persuade prosperous and sue
essful farmers to change their line of
york. That is one reason Why l am +
.Iways glad to speak to young men c
whose ideas are not yet fixed +,
"In the first place | understand that
he land in this locality, say two or q
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