The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-14
Al POT P0URFI AT THE
AGRICULTURE MEETING


meeting the different groups, organic
ed for horticultural. garden and farm
specialties made interesting reports. in
ldicating earnestness and preliminary
work done. Comrade Darth reported
from the grape club that arrangements
/ have already been made for energetic
pushing Of their chosen field Of endeav-
Or. Last Sunday volunteer crew OF
nine men and three teams watered the
strawberry plant patch by hauling wat
er. and good heavy shower since then
has placed them beyond all possibility
Of suffering from drought. Comrade
| Howard Buck is determined to have
large tank provided that when needed
will water the strawberry acres and will
also Be available for lettuce. celery and
other garden truck requiring plenty Of
water. A BURBERRY patch will be plant
ed inNovember. an ideal spot for their
culture having been located. These
bIueberries grow in the Hill regions Of
St. Domingo and are thoroughly ac-
climated to this section of the South.
Comrade Iackett reported that an ex-
cellent tea can be made from the leaves
Of the Kudzu plant and showed citron
melon, grown on the colony land, that.
grows to a large size, serves as the
basis for all kinds Of preserves. can be
| favored to initiate almost every fruit
grown under the sun, and can Be stor-
ed the entire winter without deteriora-
ting. Comrade Baldwin reported for the
forage club. He has examined num-
Der of hay fields in the parish, and is
well pleased with the prospects for a
large forage supply for the colony's
domestic animals
Writing in the Atascadero News some
years ago, E. C. Lewis said: Success
full growing Of things is very scien-
tific business, and were the same atten-
ton and order of intelligent business
Organization applied to it that is Civ
en- to the business of manufacturing
munitions Of war, with the same foster
ing care from the government, it would
respond thousand-foId. ANY able,
intelligent man, who will develop rea-
sonable time and effort to learning the
scientific business of growing things,
can make more honest profit at it than
he could in almost any other conceive
able business, and if the federal and
state government would contribute one
tenth the subsidy and other assistance
to the building of good roads and es-
Itablishing public systems of marketing
food products that they devote to pork
barrel harbors, fifty-thousand govern
eminent buildings in one-thousand dol
lar towns and few other little items
Iof state and national plumber, this ma
ton could feed the world with its left
hand, and fight it with its right.
The United States is the only civiliz-
ed country that has not adopted mod
ern methods of farm colonization, and
provisions for settlers on its land. In
stead of helping the farmers in natur-
Tally legitimate productive food supply
| ing the Federal Reserve Bank debated
farmers to the tune of seven billions.
The claim is advanced in some direc-
tions that plant diseases are caused by
reason of fertilizing with filth, animal,
bird or human excrement, rotten bones,
sewage, rotten anything, reinforced, to
be sure, with such chemical matters as
nitre, super-phosphates, lime ETC..
Primeval rocks supplied to the fields
in pulverized form, it is said, will pro-
lperly feed plants and yield to mankind
cereals, tubers and fruits that are heal
THY, wholesome vegetable food and
Illfe-sustainlng; the plants being heal
lthy will escape disease and parasites;
many of the ills of man due to unwhoIe-
some food from plants will disappear.
Turn stones into bread, make barren
regions fruitful, feed hungry, cause
healthy cereals and provender to be
harvested and thus prevent epidemics
among men and diseases among ami
Imals; make agriculture profitable, saves
large expenditures now being made for
fertilizers that are in part injurious and
In part useless. Turn the unemployed
to country life by revealing the mex
Ihaustible nutritive forces which hitherto
Iunrecognized are stored up in the rock,
in the air and in the water.
Green manuring is one Of the Oldest
methods used to maintain or to IN
crease the productivity Of the soil, New
Developments that have been made in
the practice and in the plants used for
1.-THE purpose in recent years have caused
the Y. S. Department of Agriculture 10
publish Farmers Bulletin 1850, Green
lmanuring, by c. ". Piper and A II