Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-01
bQYCE TALKS ON
SOUTH AMERICA
FAMOUS TRAVELLER ADDRESSES
DAYTON IMPROVEMENT ASSo.
CATION AT CLOSING MEETING
or ONE-DAY INSTITUTE.

A fair sized crowd attended the
closing session of the Dayton Farm
ers' meeting last evening at the Gay
/ ETY. Theater. Frank l.. Beach, the en-
thusiastic leader of the Dayton organ
I ization served as chairman. The
Luther College Quartet, which Is
g.cwing in popularity with Ottawa au-
diences, favored the gathering with
I two numbers that met with hearty ap
plause.
i l. S. Brooks. La Sale County Soil
/ Adviser, outlined the program that
/ will be offered by the State Farmers
/ Institute at Streator to be held begin |
/ ming February 2lst and lasting three
days. MIR Brooks called the attention
! of his audience to the fact that 1t was
I the second time within short period, !
+ that the State officers had chosen La
1 Sale county as q gathering place anG
urged that large number from here
/ attend.
w. D. Boyce Lectures.
\ w. ID. Eoyce, Ottgwas celebrated
/ traveller. explorer. journalist and puo'
/ Usher, was the main speaker of the
+ evening and gave most interesting
I discourse on South American coun-
tries, in regard to geography and agri-
culture. Mr.A Boyce confined his talk
largely to discussing these countries
from an agricultural standpoint. At
tie close of his address many qucs
tions were asked by the audience re-
garding the people who inhabit the
southern continent
Featured in the speakers address
was the high tribute paid to Germany
for her wonderful agricultural organ
ization, declaring this to be the potent
factor in her success thus far Mr..
Boyce said in part:
Man originated at the foot OF Him
4 alaya and spread over countries IN
I which he found the climate to be most
adaptable for living. Organization
was the factor in the advancement Of
/ the early tribes and the production of
one class better than the other.
"The greatest organization today is
attested in the marked success Of the
Kaiser. Forty yoa-5 ago the people
Of Germany rcalized that they could
not grow enough grain to supply their
people and knew that This would be a
great handicap to them in the time Of
war. They took up the question anG
discussed it systematically. II was
first discussed in townships until fin
ally they were able to meet the coun-
tries demands.
when ] was in Germany ! inter-
viewed the German secretary of agri.
culture and | asked him why they cut
out using American meat. He replied
that they didn't cut out using Amerl-
cal meat no more than meat from
Australia and South American coun-
tries, but that they placed duty on
meat so high that it made it profitable
for the farmers at home to raise cat
tie, Germany today produces thirty
bushelsA of wheat where we produce
fifteen. Three hundred bushels Of po-
tatoes are secured from plot where
we would only grow fifteen. She fer
tilizes her ground with South Ameri-
can nitrate.
with the outbreak of the war Ger
many decided not to use her barley
for making beer, but to feed it to the
hogs, thus she had system devel-
oped SO fine that by cutting the beer
short she would have bigger food
supply.
"The average German farm is only
thirteen acres Three hundred and
sixty.ninc thousand farmers have only
twenty-five acre farms. Fourteen
thousand have farms between two
hundred and fifty and five hundred
acres. There are six million farmers
In Germany The average farm In the
United States. cast of the Mississippi
river, Is only ninety-three acres; west
of the Mississippi is two hundred and
fourteen acres
THE greatest education bureau in
the world Is the international Farming
Institute, located at Rome, and which
was founded by an American by the
name of David Lubin, Of Sacramento,
California. From this bureau farmers
can learn what the worlds supply Of
grain will be. :.
Discusses Men.
"The best type Of Indian was found
along the Mississippi river and Its
tributaries in this country, and so 1t Is
in South America, the best type of red
men are found in a similar climate
The North American Indian livet
largely on wild animals, which gave
him O strong desire for alcoholic
drinks the South American lndal
lived on grains and fruit consequent
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