Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1918-02-14
CONGRESSMAN LINTHICUM
ADDRESSES CONGRESS
On Need For Intensive Farming Great
Necessity For Manufacture and
Prompt Delivery Of Fertilizer

tOngTe5 man Liuthicum fn address
ing Congress on the need for intensive
farming said, in part. "I want to saw
q word about the fertilizer question.
1 had q delegation of fertilizer men
before me from my district. who saw
That ii is absolutely necessary if we
want big crops this year to get the
fertilizer to the farmer So far they
say 1T has been next to impossible tor
JLe manufacturers 10 get fuel TO run
The plants, and some cannot Eet il.
Then it is absolutely impossible to
get enough cars 10 send the fertilizer
to the sections where it viii soon be
needed They suggest that cars ought
10 be furnished for those sections
where planting viii soon be in opera
Il0u and then other cars for sections
father north. Ia this way, they tell
me, the fertilizer can be supplied
gradually from South To North with
cut any great drain on the railroads.
"the question Of fertilizer is a seri-
Gus one II you can not get as much
farm labor as desired. we viii have to
do more intensive farming If we
have TO pay $12 a bUshel for peas-in-
stead or SG. we win have to put more
fertilizer back of them to produce a
cTOD prOpOrtioned to the cost of the
seed and labor. We know that it takes
just as much labor 20 work over a
dcld producing 80 bushels per bushel
planted as it does 10 work over a field
well fertili1ed which produces 100
bushels T, does not take any more
labor to produce 100 bushels with in
.eusiled farming than to produce so
bushels ON a poorly fertilizer farm /
merely state this so that members in
tagcstod I'm Jhis matter who want to
see a big crop and the people well fed
may gel after the fertilizer and see
that ii ie manufactured and gets to
The farms. believe if yOu viii do
that you win produce an the crops you
need .his year
'I am not "a novice as to farming
and farm work was raised on
farm and tauEht by % father who was
a progressive farmer lie knew above
au things chat unless you fertilized
and otherwise improved your land.
yau were not farmer but O miner,
taking ali from the land and putting
no hing back He also knew the value
OF farm machinery and pet his knowl-
edge into practice He realized that
with The proper machinery half the
force on q farm could do the work,
and do IT with less labor. Many farm
ers are TERRIBLY handicapped in the
carly spring when planting season ar
rivea, by not beins ready 10 take ad-
vantage of the weather at once. Ii
the farmer win have his machinery,
pljwa. and 80 forth, all placed in
readiness for spriugtime and planting,
ho viii be saved much worry and
time
"I would not be adverse to helping
farmers buy machinery It saves so
much labor and enables one 10 pro
Juce in great abundance You men
from the farming sections impress up
9n vour people the necessity of inten-
aiEe. up-to-date farming The farm
ers are awake, i am sure, but we all
like little boosting at times 1t is
the Httle fellow. The timid farmer, the
one who fears debt as ne fears fire,
these are the men who need encour-
3pemont II has been said hat the
farmer must win the war that 1t is a
question of food endurance Plenty Of
rarGlfreT and other land improve
nents, proper farm machinery, inten-
siva farming. aided by the farmer boy
and the trained city boy will save the
aav 7 am sure"