Newark post., 1922-08-02
Farmers Day Speaker
Tells OF Europe
DR.. Lipman Who Will Be Here
Tomorrow Relates His
Experiences

DR.. Jacob Lipman, who will be the
speaker at Farmers Day, tomorrow,
director Of the New Jersey Expert
mental Station, located at New Bruns-
wick, N. j., who represented this
country at a farm conference in
Italy a short time ago, visited several
European countries while abroad and
he reports conditions there as follows:
"The mere sending of food is not
going to suffice for the starving peo-
pie Of Russia. Nor will it be sufficient
to send seed for them to SOW, because
they will eat the seed. What Russian
peasantry needs is the resources to
provide tools, livestock, seed, fertilizer
and, above all, competent men to
supervise the planting and culture.
The question is whether or not the
bolshevists are going to stand for
such interference from outside. 1t is
said that more people are going to
starve this year than did last"
This is the Interpretation Of Rus
sia's agricultural problems which
Doctor Lipman gave on his return
June from a two months visit to
European countries, during which
time he acted as United States dele
gate to two international conventions,
as delegate from Rutgers College to
the Tooth anniversary of the Univer-
sity of Padua, studied agricultural
conditions in six countries, delivered
seven or eight lectures in French and
English, visited several experiment
stations, was elected on a number OF
important committees, was chosen
editor of the Internationale Mitteilun-
gen fur Bodenkunde, was awarded a
medal by the French Academy of Ag-
riculture, before whom he spoke, and
found moments between times to go
down into a potash mine, see some
Swiss scenery, ride in a gondola and
visit the castle of Padua where Napo-
leon once lived.
"Although 1 did not visit Russia"
Doctor Lipman said, 81 talked with
Professor Floroff, who is teaching in
a university in the black soil belt, one
of the richest agricultural sections Of
Russia. Conditions there, he said, are
in bad way, because of the fact that
the big estates have been turned over
! to the small farmers, who have no
equipment and no knowledge.
GAS for French agriculture, the
peasants are coming back very slow
ly, but are unwilling and unable to
spent the necessary amount Of money
for fertilizers that will give them a
good crop. The most promising sign
in French farming is the cooperation
between small farmers-syndicates,
they call them-whereby the men are
getting together and buying co-opcra-
lively. This will bring back pros
perity in time, but it will take time"
Upon landing Doctor Lipman went
to Paris, where he looked into the
subject of air nitrates, and from
thence to Berlin, where he found that
the nitrogen situation had made great
progress since 1919, when he last Wis
tied that country.
Germany needs about 100000 tons
of nitrogen each year for fertilizing
purposes. One of the large plants has
a capacity of about 100000 tons and
by August will have increased its
capacity to 100000 tons. From by.
products about 10000 tons are being
manufactured and 10000 more are
made as cyanides. Of course, none Of
this is supposed to be exported, but
many manufacturers have yielded tt
temptation and some of the nitrogen
is going across into Holland"