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jqURN^ »E FAKl^^AAtZ ***** . 1 w VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, AUG. 5, 1911. NO. 31 KEW MOVE FOR AGRICULTURE. UlTOXAIi CO-OPERATION WITH THE SEVERAL STATES FOB BETTERMENT. proposal for Greater Development In Agriculture, the Industries and llaiini- Economics. The whole country Is coming more I ,nJ more to understand that the productive forces of the nation and the home economics are the factors making It great and strong, and that what- ,-,,-r measures are taken to develop and build up these are the greatest functions underlying public legislation. [Looking to this great work is a bill no* pending in Congress, known as St-nate Bill 3, the purposes of which | ,re indicated in its title as follows: |i,,eloping Productive Industry. To cooperate with the States in en- Icouraging instruction in agriculture, I the trades and industries, and home |„ iaiimloa in secondary schools; in Inulntaining instruction in these vocational subjects in State normal schools; lin maintaining extension departments lin State colleges of agriculture and IwKhanlc arts; and to appropriate fnoney and regulate its expenditure." The details of this proposed work Iprovlde for connectlonal relations with Ithe National Department of Agricul- Iture, the Interior Department, and the liVcretary of Commerce and Labor, Ittae all co-operating with State instl- Itutlons now organized or to be organ- lized for this purpose. The author of |this movement wisely says: "I believe the people of a great majority of the States in the Union are Iripe for a beginning of the work on Ithis great problem, but before they will luke the initiative to any considerable Intent the .details must be worked out l»nd the trail blazed by the general government, either in the way suggested |br my bill or some other having the ne objective points, as was done in oviding education of college grade u°ng these lines, and as was done in *te experiment station work. 1>>e Coming Young Manhood. ~h* High School, the Academy and ''-liege are taking excellent care those boys who are financially able 1 avail themselves of their advantages, " It requires only a superficial exam- '•uon to show that the average boy, arriving at the age when he must Nn, because of lack of means, to be ^read-winner for the family, is negated by the State and in far too many • following the lines of least re- lc*4 drifts into a cheap manhood. The Example in Germany. "at Germany Is now outrunning us "ie race for commercial supremacy J"ilversally conceded. In my Judg- 'his is due In a large measure * faot that when the German boy 1 the age of 12, 13 or 14, his '•"lstics, his physical equipment, **• of his mind—his Idlosyncrac- to speak—are carefully ascer- *nd he is agiven a training which y* nlm for the life work which he Sit* to follow. ** and Yonng People of America. 0 with the American youth of the great middle class, especially in our villages and cities. He is turned adrift and the question presented to his mind is, not what will my future life work be?' but rather, 'Where can I get a job that will furnish me the wherewith to buy my clothes and pay my entrance with my best girl to the moving picture show?' If he can find a position as boot-black, newspaper vender or messenger boy, he is content. In any event he follows the lines of least resistance and takes the work nearest at hand with little or no thought as to growing up into a well-rounded manhood. If he be a farm boy, he works along without specific training and becomes another of that great number sorblng our surplus, and at the present rate of Increased demand and increasing population here at home, the only- thing to meet It Is Increased production and the thing that will give us Increased production is better knowledge how to produce. The State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations are doing a wonderful work along these lines, but the pending act becoming a law would so organize industry as to very greatly accelerate activity, increase production, and conserve our resources and strength as to nearly or quite double our industrial capabilities on the same area. This is a great movement and should be speedily consummated. ataammaam'o- ■■... ., t^nsot--;:*;* 7*^s» Yields of Onions on Irrigated Plat (on left) and on unirrigated plat (on right,) at the Missouri Experiment Station who secure from the soil only half the profits they should. Building Boys and Battleships. "We spend ten or twelve million dollars to build and equip a single battleship. The same sum spent for the benefit of these boys who are to be our farmers and industrial workers, and for those girls who are to be our home- makers, would change the whole course of their lives and thereby materially benefit the nation. "I believe that the expenditure of one cent per capita per month by the National Government, if expended under the wise direction of a properly organized force, would put in motion the entire machinery which is outlined by this bill, and which I feel confident will bring about the results so absolutely essential to the welfare of the great mass of the boys and girls, too, of our land. "It is going to be no easy matter to bring about the passage of thla bill, but lf the stronger agricultural and industrial papers of the country will aid in educating the public and in leading lt to consider this matter from a broad, liberal, and patriotic standpoint, I believe we can win out." State Cooperation. Here is an outline of a great work. A few millions devoted to lt, in cooperation with the several States would in a few years so broaden the knowledge of agricultural production as to keep abreast of the world's demands upon us for food and raiment. Already production abroad has fallen behind the demand, and It is rapidly ab- TIMBER AND FLOODS. Editors Indiana Farmer: When a college boy at Hanover, Indiana, I spent a vacation or so traveling for the American Bible Society, and in 1874 found the farmers destroying their fine trees, and protested a- gainst such vandalism. But they made a weak defence by saying they were not able to pay the tax on the land and leave it to trees, and therefore must kill the trees. I explained to them what would happen. So that fall when I returned to college, I wrote and published an article In the Indianapolis News, stating what I had found ln my travels, and stating what it would result in, unless arrested, (and my predictions have more than been fulfilled,) and asked the Legislature to take up the question, and to pass a law by which all lands strictly devoted to trees and forest culture and preservation, should be assessed for taxation at the nominal valuation of $1.00 per acre, which would have been about 1V4 cents per year tax, and pointing out what would happen unless it was done. But as I was only a a poor college boy no attention was paid to me. Had the legislature taken my advice and paid heed to my warning, Indiana today would have been well timbered. Last September I went for a drive down ln Pike and Gibson Counties, to look at the corn fields. My wife owns lands In White River bottoms. Well, there were thousands, of acres of the finest corn I have ever seen and I have traveled In 19 states and territories, from Milwaukee to Interior of Kentucky, and from the Potomac to the Pa cific and studied the conditions I am talking about. Much of this corn, had nothing happened from then till gathering time would have shucked from 80 to 100 bushels of the finest corn that ever grew to the acre. Well in a month from that time, in October, it began to rain and rained one week, and then stopped. By that time the water was coming up and covering the corn, and kept coming until the corn was from 3 to 5 feet under water, and the water remained over the corn for two weeks, when it began to go down and it was about a week going down. Then it was learned that much fine corn was destroyed. The loss in the White river region was estimated at over 500,000 bushels. Well, when God made the world he clothed the White River hills with a tine growth of timber to hold back the water, and to cause the roots of the trees to take up the rainfall and convey it down into the giound for moisture and as a reserve for drouths and emergencies. Much of the rainfall would be taken up by these means, and utilized, and by evaporation taken up, and would never reach the rivers; but with timber gone, rain water that formerly was five to eight months reaching the river, would be in the river inside of a few hours, and soon bring the river out to destroy the corn; while, when the timber was on the hills in years gone by, lt would be a physical Impossibility for a week's rain to inundate the bottoms. It would have required a month's rain to have wrought such havoc. So you see the poor misguided people who deforested the hills along the White river and its tributaries, caused the overflow which ruined the corn. They and not nature were the guilty parties. We are having a great time down here. Parties are now trying to get a levee association to levy both the White and Wabash rivers. What a crime! Then it will break up the farmers and ruin the lands. Then in the city, we are confronted with a proposition to sewer our city and carry the water into the Wabash river, at a probable cost of $700,000 to ruin the water. I am one of the parties who are fighting it. Levees and sewers are a relic of past foolishness. All levees should be torn down. Sewers should be prohibited. All offal should be conserved and turned into fertilizers. Our virgin soli ls all gone. It must be replenished. When and how will It be accomplished when we run our offal and night soils into the rivers to pollute them, instead of utilizing them as fertilizers? The analizing of the rivers of Illinois which Is now going on proves that the rivers of that state, that is their waters, are not fit for domestic or mechanical uses. Waters are so poisoned that they eat up boilers and machinery. Indiana rivers will soon be no better. It .Is even now time the government of the U. S. should step in and take possession of her streama, which she muat do aoon, and save them for the people. J. P. L. W. 1 ♦ i An alfalfa association has been organized by farmera of central IUlnola. The object is to learn everything possible regarding the successful growing of alfalfa. A good Idea.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1911, v. 66, no. 31 (Aug. 5) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6631 |
Date of Original | 1911 |
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 |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
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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 |
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Transcript | jqURN^ »E FAKl^^AAtZ ***** . 1 w VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, AUG. 5, 1911. NO. 31 KEW MOVE FOR AGRICULTURE. UlTOXAIi CO-OPERATION WITH THE SEVERAL STATES FOB BETTERMENT. proposal for Greater Development In Agriculture, the Industries and llaiini- Economics. The whole country Is coming more I ,nJ more to understand that the productive forces of the nation and the home economics are the factors making It great and strong, and that what- ,-,,-r measures are taken to develop and build up these are the greatest functions underlying public legislation. [Looking to this great work is a bill no* pending in Congress, known as St-nate Bill 3, the purposes of which | ,re indicated in its title as follows: |i,,eloping Productive Industry. To cooperate with the States in en- Icouraging instruction in agriculture, I the trades and industries, and home |„ iaiimloa in secondary schools; in Inulntaining instruction in these vocational subjects in State normal schools; lin maintaining extension departments lin State colleges of agriculture and IwKhanlc arts; and to appropriate fnoney and regulate its expenditure." The details of this proposed work Iprovlde for connectlonal relations with Ithe National Department of Agricul- Iture, the Interior Department, and the liVcretary of Commerce and Labor, Ittae all co-operating with State instl- Itutlons now organized or to be organ- lized for this purpose. The author of |this movement wisely says: "I believe the people of a great majority of the States in the Union are Iripe for a beginning of the work on Ithis great problem, but before they will luke the initiative to any considerable Intent the .details must be worked out l»nd the trail blazed by the general government, either in the way suggested |br my bill or some other having the ne objective points, as was done in oviding education of college grade u°ng these lines, and as was done in *te experiment station work. 1>>e Coming Young Manhood. ~h* High School, the Academy and ''-liege are taking excellent care those boys who are financially able 1 avail themselves of their advantages, " It requires only a superficial exam- '•uon to show that the average boy, arriving at the age when he must Nn, because of lack of means, to be ^read-winner for the family, is negated by the State and in far too many • following the lines of least re- lc*4 drifts into a cheap manhood. The Example in Germany. "at Germany Is now outrunning us "ie race for commercial supremacy J"ilversally conceded. In my Judg- 'his is due In a large measure * faot that when the German boy 1 the age of 12, 13 or 14, his '•"lstics, his physical equipment, **• of his mind—his Idlosyncrac- to speak—are carefully ascer- *nd he is agiven a training which y* nlm for the life work which he Sit* to follow. ** and Yonng People of America. 0 with the American youth of the great middle class, especially in our villages and cities. He is turned adrift and the question presented to his mind is, not what will my future life work be?' but rather, 'Where can I get a job that will furnish me the wherewith to buy my clothes and pay my entrance with my best girl to the moving picture show?' If he can find a position as boot-black, newspaper vender or messenger boy, he is content. In any event he follows the lines of least resistance and takes the work nearest at hand with little or no thought as to growing up into a well-rounded manhood. If he be a farm boy, he works along without specific training and becomes another of that great number sorblng our surplus, and at the present rate of Increased demand and increasing population here at home, the only- thing to meet It Is Increased production and the thing that will give us Increased production is better knowledge how to produce. The State Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations are doing a wonderful work along these lines, but the pending act becoming a law would so organize industry as to very greatly accelerate activity, increase production, and conserve our resources and strength as to nearly or quite double our industrial capabilities on the same area. This is a great movement and should be speedily consummated. ataammaam'o- ■■... ., t^nsot--;:*;* 7*^s» Yields of Onions on Irrigated Plat (on left) and on unirrigated plat (on right,) at the Missouri Experiment Station who secure from the soil only half the profits they should. Building Boys and Battleships. "We spend ten or twelve million dollars to build and equip a single battleship. The same sum spent for the benefit of these boys who are to be our farmers and industrial workers, and for those girls who are to be our home- makers, would change the whole course of their lives and thereby materially benefit the nation. "I believe that the expenditure of one cent per capita per month by the National Government, if expended under the wise direction of a properly organized force, would put in motion the entire machinery which is outlined by this bill, and which I feel confident will bring about the results so absolutely essential to the welfare of the great mass of the boys and girls, too, of our land. "It is going to be no easy matter to bring about the passage of thla bill, but lf the stronger agricultural and industrial papers of the country will aid in educating the public and in leading lt to consider this matter from a broad, liberal, and patriotic standpoint, I believe we can win out." State Cooperation. Here is an outline of a great work. A few millions devoted to lt, in cooperation with the several States would in a few years so broaden the knowledge of agricultural production as to keep abreast of the world's demands upon us for food and raiment. Already production abroad has fallen behind the demand, and It is rapidly ab- TIMBER AND FLOODS. Editors Indiana Farmer: When a college boy at Hanover, Indiana, I spent a vacation or so traveling for the American Bible Society, and in 1874 found the farmers destroying their fine trees, and protested a- gainst such vandalism. But they made a weak defence by saying they were not able to pay the tax on the land and leave it to trees, and therefore must kill the trees. I explained to them what would happen. So that fall when I returned to college, I wrote and published an article In the Indianapolis News, stating what I had found ln my travels, and stating what it would result in, unless arrested, (and my predictions have more than been fulfilled,) and asked the Legislature to take up the question, and to pass a law by which all lands strictly devoted to trees and forest culture and preservation, should be assessed for taxation at the nominal valuation of $1.00 per acre, which would have been about 1V4 cents per year tax, and pointing out what would happen unless it was done. But as I was only a a poor college boy no attention was paid to me. Had the legislature taken my advice and paid heed to my warning, Indiana today would have been well timbered. Last September I went for a drive down ln Pike and Gibson Counties, to look at the corn fields. My wife owns lands In White River bottoms. Well, there were thousands, of acres of the finest corn I have ever seen and I have traveled In 19 states and territories, from Milwaukee to Interior of Kentucky, and from the Potomac to the Pa cific and studied the conditions I am talking about. Much of this corn, had nothing happened from then till gathering time would have shucked from 80 to 100 bushels of the finest corn that ever grew to the acre. Well in a month from that time, in October, it began to rain and rained one week, and then stopped. By that time the water was coming up and covering the corn, and kept coming until the corn was from 3 to 5 feet under water, and the water remained over the corn for two weeks, when it began to go down and it was about a week going down. Then it was learned that much fine corn was destroyed. The loss in the White river region was estimated at over 500,000 bushels. Well, when God made the world he clothed the White River hills with a tine growth of timber to hold back the water, and to cause the roots of the trees to take up the rainfall and convey it down into the giound for moisture and as a reserve for drouths and emergencies. Much of the rainfall would be taken up by these means, and utilized, and by evaporation taken up, and would never reach the rivers; but with timber gone, rain water that formerly was five to eight months reaching the river, would be in the river inside of a few hours, and soon bring the river out to destroy the corn; while, when the timber was on the hills in years gone by, lt would be a physical Impossibility for a week's rain to inundate the bottoms. It would have required a month's rain to have wrought such havoc. So you see the poor misguided people who deforested the hills along the White river and its tributaries, caused the overflow which ruined the corn. They and not nature were the guilty parties. We are having a great time down here. Parties are now trying to get a levee association to levy both the White and Wabash rivers. What a crime! Then it will break up the farmers and ruin the lands. Then in the city, we are confronted with a proposition to sewer our city and carry the water into the Wabash river, at a probable cost of $700,000 to ruin the water. I am one of the parties who are fighting it. Levees and sewers are a relic of past foolishness. All levees should be torn down. Sewers should be prohibited. All offal should be conserved and turned into fertilizers. Our virgin soli ls all gone. It must be replenished. When and how will It be accomplished when we run our offal and night soils into the rivers to pollute them, instead of utilizing them as fertilizers? The analizing of the rivers of Illinois which Is now going on proves that the rivers of that state, that is their waters, are not fit for domestic or mechanical uses. Waters are so poisoned that they eat up boilers and machinery. Indiana rivers will soon be no better. It .Is even now time the government of the U. S. should step in and take possession of her streama, which she muat do aoon, and save them for the people. J. P. L. W. 1 ♦ i An alfalfa association has been organized by farmera of central IUlnola. The object is to learn everything possible regarding the successful growing of alfalfa. A good Idea. |
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