Putnam patriot., 1915-02-05

1 lo' uhNs inOfouku cuitlNattOn, care Oi the soil, large crops, going to the bot
 tom of things, good farmers, enter prise and intelligence, the best houses,
 barns, stock and material good sani. tary conditions, the decline of farmers that won't improve, in farms that grow poorer, boys leaving the farms.
 This great man was preaching and
 urging just what all students of the situation are urging to day.
 The question has been carefully studied by not only the most renowned
 agricultural experts of the country but i by the ioagheaded farsighted business l men of the country. Why should l these business men take such an inter- est in the farmer2 Because the farm- CTS success is the success of business usht here in Connecticut and Wind. i ham county as well as in the west. i With fatms all inhabited and raising 1 bumper crops money is coming in and
 being circulated The store keeper is i selling more wares, the grain merchant ] is selling more grain, aud every bust 1 ness and profession receives its share ] of the prosperity The railroads reap i a harvest and the greater amount of commerce will make cheaper rates in shipping.
 That is why President Elliott of the l New Haven road sees i'll the question one that concerns vitally New Eng lands railroads and recently brought i forth a statement from him in the Sat urday Evening Post in which he makes a com parision between Connee- ticut and Denmark which Is interest. ing reading. He says in comparing the two:
 The former produces for each person
 three bushels of cereals, four gallons of
 milk, three pounds of butter and a
 minute fraction of one pound ofeheese.
 The latter produces for each person l thirty.eight bushels of cereals, three hundred and thirty six gallons of milk, i eighty.one pounds of butter and Is
 pounds oi cheese.
 The former produces about one.quar- i ter of what her population eats. The ] latter feeds herself and exports large
 amount of agricultural products. The l amount of cultivated land in Connecti- i cut has declined in the last fifty years
 and nearly nine-tenths of the popula- l ton now live in towns of more than i twenty five hundred inhabitants.
 In the last census year Connecticut manufactures produced two hundred and thirty three million dollars, and 1 Connecticut agriculture, including some duplications-only thirty.seven
 million dollars. That proves, we 1 should say, that manufacturing is
 more profitable than agriculture-but
 profitable to whom? Probably not to i great many of the two hundred-and-
 odd thousand wage earners who, with
 their dependents, make up the larger
 part of the states population. There is opportunity for thousands i of those wage earneTs on Connecticut's
 uncutivated or half-cultivated land;
 and they would be there it half the organizing talent directed to Connecti- cut manufactures had been directed to Connecticut agriculture.
 "There are at least two reasons for the success of Danish Agriculture, says Mir. Elliott: ''One is the intensi- ty of agricultural effort; tae other is the resort to co operation among farm CTS. In Denmark the farmers have cooperative dairies, co operative slaughter houses, and cooperative so- cieties to export livestock and eggs or the total milk production, seventy seven per cent comes from cooperative diaries"
 By cooperative organization, such as exists in Denmark, Connecticut agriculture can succeed too.
 The above is poor showing for our state. Brought up to the Denmark standard and what prosperity our state would be enjoying. Intensity in agri- culture and intelligent effort and CO., operation is the remedy, and this IS
 what is being sought in the present
 movement.
 Another instance has been pointed
 out where this country has fallen be-
 hind and where there is chance for 1 great Detterment is in raising of pota- toes. It has been pointed out in this
 regard that the cultivation of the pota- 1 to was introduced into Germany from the United States. CuriousIyaenough 1 seed :potatoes are now imported into
 this country from Germany because our farmers allowed this vegetable to l degenerate to such degree that 1t has
 substantially lost all value for seeding 1 The science of fertilizing achieved the amazing result that Germany's soil i,
 although cultivated for almost two 1 thousand years, is today more produc tive than the virgin soil of the United
 States and Canada. Deserted farms
 are unknown in the empire. Chemis.
 try is not only educating the farmer in
 scientific iertilizing but producing th'
 requisite artificial fertilizers.
 It is such lesson as lhe above tha