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yoL. LXI PUBLIC LIBRARY (^^o^S^W^rf £ DIANAPOLIS, JULY 14, 1906. NO. 28 ^a^at^t^saatia^-^+*a___+***,mm*m.*+*+*m^+m THE AMERICAN FARM. The World Turning to It for all the Comforts of Life. Heat, Light and Power, 83 Well as Pood and Raiment. "Every farmer boy wanta to be a school teacher, every school teacher hopes to be an editor, every editor would like to be a banker, every banker would like to be a trust magnate, and every trust magnate hopes some day to own a farm and have chickens and cows and pigs and horses to look after. We end where we begin." What tbe Farm Will Furnish. 1. Food and Raiment. 2. Heat, light and Power. 3. Paper Fiber. and more attractive phases of agriculture is seen in the added value to our acres of about fifty per cent in the last ten- years. The possibilities of the soil are coming to be better understood. Good acres are seen to be the foundation of a home life that cannot vanish in the sharp competitions, aud speculations, and hazzards, and fluctuations incident to other business pursuits. Congress has just taken a step in behalf of agriculture that has awakened more interest in this great industry than anything that has been done in years. Taking the internal tax off of alcohol throws the production of that article at the feet of agriculture for the utilization of many of its raw products. It now looks as if creases the supply of timber, coal, oil and gas resources diminish and. must increase in price, and this country is on the threshold of new sources of supply, and the soil will provide the new heat, light and power, as well as the paper upon which is printed daily and weekly the news of the world carried to every home. This restource is stored in soil fertility, r.nd the product is to be annual and inexhaustible under the highest order of cultivation. There are two essentially great factors in the growth of crops, nitrogen and organic matter or humus. .Prof. Hopkins has shown that there is enough nitrogen in the air above every quarter section of land to* produce the annual crops None of the great industries have advanced more rapidly than that ofagriculture in thepast decade. In its scientific aspects, as in a wider appreciation of its resources and capabilities for more and more blessing of the world, is this 4'U". In the nianuipula- tioii of soils Burbank is new species ling their and plant*. producing and doul*- prod notion; growing forests of black walnut and other useful timber trees in one quarter of the time unaided nature has been able to grow them; turned the hated cactus of the plains to bearing nutritions fruit, and produced fruits, flowering and foliage plants in wonderful variety. In the past ten years the agri- cultural scientists of (he college and experiment stations have shown how, by selection and breeding, and soil manipulation, wheat can be nearly doubled in production; that the protein in corn cau be greatly increased and its yield per acre increased 15 to 18 bushels; beef cattle grown to 13001bs. in twenty months on one-half the food formerly required ia three and a half years; how by legume rotations with tho staple grain crops the soil may draw from the air tho nitrogenous elements of fertility, annually producing profitable crops and also enriching the land. These and other great advances in soil culture have attracted to the farm thoughtful men everywhere who are studying these things and buying homes to which tliey may retire from the exacting duties and burdens of the more strenuous life of the city street aud offlce. This accretion of interest in the new A new Product of tht Farm. Through the Chemist*s Retort the Field Supplies the Factory With Heat, Light and Poiver the new source of heat, light and power were also to be dependent upon the farm. The soil is thus to be relied upon not alone chiefly for food and raiment ns in tbe past. As population and industry in- of the world. By the growth of the legumes in rotation with the other crops, he says it will be possible in all future years for farmers to gather from the air snd maintain a sufficient supply of nitro gen in the soil for all kinds of crops. The organic matter or humus is afforded in equal abundance in the rotation with legumes and the fertility supplied in the consumption of the crops on the land. Without an exact knowledge in the concrete aa to how and why these things are so, ia all the years past farmers have noted and fully recognized that wheat or corn, or oats in the rotation following one of the great legume crop, clover, the soil produces in much greater abundance, and v, hen attended with the other well-known precautions and methods of fertility, yield double the productions of soils not so managed. And so we have the assur- ris-ce of continued annual fertility aud production nnder well noted methods of culture. Under the new order of things in making alcohol free, the soil may he relied on in the course of a few years to provide for the diminishing quantities of coal, kerosene and gasoline, and to supply an annual product for heat, light and power. I.ast year this country consumed, for these purposes chiefly, 796,873,- 200 gallons of kerosene and gasoline. It is stated that one bushel of corn will produce three- to four gallons of alcohol, leaving also valuable by-products. The United States produces annually about 2,400,- 000,000 bushels of corn, of which we annually export from one to two hundred million bushels. By diverting to the production- of alcohol 400,000,000 bushels it would provide 1,200,000,000 gallons for heat, light and power. On the best authority it is shown that one acre of good corn will make 150 gallons of alcohol, and the stalks of corn on one acre, cut and used just when the ear is well matured, will produce 170 gallons of alcohol. Thus it is seen that au acre of ear corn and stalks will produce 320 gallons of alcohol, which at a price as low as 10 cents a gallon would in the gross be $32 per acre, not counting cost of manufacture. As the corn area of the United States is about 95,000,000 acres it is seen that we have wonderful resources for the alcohol product. It is shown that one acre of good yielding Irish potatoes will produce 300 to 400 gal- ions of alcohol, according to the kind of potatoes grown, as one large white variety, not so finely flavored for table use, yields much more than the finer varieties. An acre of southern yams and sweet potatoes will produce about the same num-
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1906, v. 61, no. 28 (July 14) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6128 |
Date of Original | 1906 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | yoL. LXI PUBLIC LIBRARY (^^o^S^W^rf £ DIANAPOLIS, JULY 14, 1906. NO. 28 ^a^at^t^saatia^-^+*a___+***,mm*m.*+*+*m^+m THE AMERICAN FARM. The World Turning to It for all the Comforts of Life. Heat, Light and Power, 83 Well as Pood and Raiment. "Every farmer boy wanta to be a school teacher, every school teacher hopes to be an editor, every editor would like to be a banker, every banker would like to be a trust magnate, and every trust magnate hopes some day to own a farm and have chickens and cows and pigs and horses to look after. We end where we begin." What tbe Farm Will Furnish. 1. Food and Raiment. 2. Heat, light and Power. 3. Paper Fiber. and more attractive phases of agriculture is seen in the added value to our acres of about fifty per cent in the last ten- years. The possibilities of the soil are coming to be better understood. Good acres are seen to be the foundation of a home life that cannot vanish in the sharp competitions, aud speculations, and hazzards, and fluctuations incident to other business pursuits. Congress has just taken a step in behalf of agriculture that has awakened more interest in this great industry than anything that has been done in years. Taking the internal tax off of alcohol throws the production of that article at the feet of agriculture for the utilization of many of its raw products. It now looks as if creases the supply of timber, coal, oil and gas resources diminish and. must increase in price, and this country is on the threshold of new sources of supply, and the soil will provide the new heat, light and power, as well as the paper upon which is printed daily and weekly the news of the world carried to every home. This restource is stored in soil fertility, r.nd the product is to be annual and inexhaustible under the highest order of cultivation. There are two essentially great factors in the growth of crops, nitrogen and organic matter or humus. .Prof. Hopkins has shown that there is enough nitrogen in the air above every quarter section of land to* produce the annual crops None of the great industries have advanced more rapidly than that ofagriculture in thepast decade. In its scientific aspects, as in a wider appreciation of its resources and capabilities for more and more blessing of the world, is this 4'U". In the nianuipula- tioii of soils Burbank is new species ling their and plant*. producing and doul*- prod notion; growing forests of black walnut and other useful timber trees in one quarter of the time unaided nature has been able to grow them; turned the hated cactus of the plains to bearing nutritions fruit, and produced fruits, flowering and foliage plants in wonderful variety. In the past ten years the agri- cultural scientists of (he college and experiment stations have shown how, by selection and breeding, and soil manipulation, wheat can be nearly doubled in production; that the protein in corn cau be greatly increased and its yield per acre increased 15 to 18 bushels; beef cattle grown to 13001bs. in twenty months on one-half the food formerly required ia three and a half years; how by legume rotations with tho staple grain crops the soil may draw from the air tho nitrogenous elements of fertility, annually producing profitable crops and also enriching the land. These and other great advances in soil culture have attracted to the farm thoughtful men everywhere who are studying these things and buying homes to which tliey may retire from the exacting duties and burdens of the more strenuous life of the city street aud offlce. This accretion of interest in the new A new Product of tht Farm. Through the Chemist*s Retort the Field Supplies the Factory With Heat, Light and Poiver the new source of heat, light and power were also to be dependent upon the farm. The soil is thus to be relied upon not alone chiefly for food and raiment ns in tbe past. As population and industry in- of the world. By the growth of the legumes in rotation with the other crops, he says it will be possible in all future years for farmers to gather from the air snd maintain a sufficient supply of nitro gen in the soil for all kinds of crops. The organic matter or humus is afforded in equal abundance in the rotation with legumes and the fertility supplied in the consumption of the crops on the land. Without an exact knowledge in the concrete aa to how and why these things are so, ia all the years past farmers have noted and fully recognized that wheat or corn, or oats in the rotation following one of the great legume crop, clover, the soil produces in much greater abundance, and v, hen attended with the other well-known precautions and methods of fertility, yield double the productions of soils not so managed. And so we have the assur- ris-ce of continued annual fertility aud production nnder well noted methods of culture. Under the new order of things in making alcohol free, the soil may he relied on in the course of a few years to provide for the diminishing quantities of coal, kerosene and gasoline, and to supply an annual product for heat, light and power. I.ast year this country consumed, for these purposes chiefly, 796,873,- 200 gallons of kerosene and gasoline. It is stated that one bushel of corn will produce three- to four gallons of alcohol, leaving also valuable by-products. The United States produces annually about 2,400,- 000,000 bushels of corn, of which we annually export from one to two hundred million bushels. By diverting to the production- of alcohol 400,000,000 bushels it would provide 1,200,000,000 gallons for heat, light and power. On the best authority it is shown that one acre of good corn will make 150 gallons of alcohol, and the stalks of corn on one acre, cut and used just when the ear is well matured, will produce 170 gallons of alcohol. Thus it is seen that au acre of ear corn and stalks will produce 320 gallons of alcohol, which at a price as low as 10 cents a gallon would in the gross be $32 per acre, not counting cost of manufacture. As the corn area of the United States is about 95,000,000 acres it is seen that we have wonderful resources for the alcohol product. It is shown that one acre of good yielding Irish potatoes will produce 300 to 400 gal- ions of alcohol, according to the kind of potatoes grown, as one large white variety, not so finely flavored for table use, yields much more than the finer varieties. An acre of southern yams and sweet potatoes will produce about the same num- |
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