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VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, DEC. 30, 1911. NO. 52 Agricultural Conditions THF. PRODUCTION'S OP 1ft 11 MORF. VALUABLE THAN THOSE OP 1910. ADVANCE REPORT OP TARY WILSON. SECRE- The fifteenth annual report of the rrnent without being tested for germination condition. The schools want more of our publications than we have to give them. Seven hundred and fifty million dollars is the best estimate for poultry products this year. All Government agencies that conserve public health should be grouped together in one bureau. The Department of Agriculture has had success in the Southern States through object lessons in the fields, where the best southern farmers in their counties were the instructors. This method should be organized in all the States along lines of greatest necessity. Our systems of renting land are faulty and result in soil robbing; where them profitable. Our foresters are learning by experiments how to reforest 30,000 acres in a year; ten times as much must be planted anually to cover all the bare acres in a generation. It will be done. There shoud be publicity regarding the cold storage of foods, through monthly reports to some Federal authority that would give them to the press, to the end that the people might know to what extent foods were being withdrawn from consumption. A Bountiful Harvest. .Secretary of Agriculture is now ready for the public. As is the case with the previous reports this one deals with what our government has done during the past year on the varied problems of national importance in agriculture. Secretary Wilson begins the report with the following: Important Suggestions. When the cattle-fever tick is destroyed in the Southern States the country will get much more meat from that section and the producing of it will build up the farms there. The hog cholera serum developed in this department is successful where it i.s properly made and applied. Would it be asking too much of our universities to have them educate more plant pathologists and road engineers? Kvery country In the world that has diseased plants that can not be sold at home can ship them to us. This results in great loss. The chestnut disease here is an illustration. After years of experimentation we find we can grow Egyptian cotton In southern California and bulbs in the State of Washington . The finest dates from the Sahara Desert succeed in our Southwest. No seed is sent out from this ilepart- The day is not far distant when we will cease to import potash. We are sending explorers to the ends of the earth for new plants—and getting them. The phosphates are abundant in our country for all possible uses, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Idaho may be mentioned as depositories. If good roads from the producer to the consumer were general, the benefits to both would be considerable. When a foreign insect invades, our scientists seek its enemy where it came from. The natural enemy of the boll weevil was an ant that could not endure our winters, but the native ant is getting busy. The experiment stations of the several States are doing better work each succeeding year; the scientists are maturing and the people are appreciating. The object lesson in agriculture is the best teacher; we had 60,000 of them at work last year. Six hundred thousand short tons of beet sugar were made last year in 67 factories. There is an estimated world's shortage of 1,600,000 long tons of sugar this year. The consumer pays a dollar for food; the farmer gets less than fifty cents for it. Who gets the rest? tho renter can not provide domestic animals, the owner should arrange to furnish them so that rotation of crops may be had, and hay and grains may be fed on the farm. Irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is new and full of plant food; but, where the crops are sold year by year, irrigation will not of itself assure good results. Alaska* will some day provide farmers in lower latitudes with grain seeds superior to what they can grow at home. The corn crop is moving northward by seed selection. The southern farm boy is showing the way to grow more of all crops on an acre. Educate the farmer's boy toward a more valuable life on the farm. Uplift the farm home through the education of the farmer's daughter toward greater usefulness and attractiveness in the farm home. Save all the liquid fertilizers on the farm, in cisterns, to be applied where crops are to grow; this will recover the greatest farm waste of our times. There is great promise in the fact that whole classes of graduates of agricultural colleges go back to the farms, having learned how to make Crops of 1911 and Tlieir Value In discussing crop production and values the Secretary states that the climatic conditions of the early part of the growing season of 1911 were adverse to agriculture throughout the country east of the Rocky mountains in a degree that exceeds all records. For a period of 60 days, beginning early in May, a series of hot waves of marked severity so early in the season followed one another tn rapid succession, and the Weather Bureau Is quoted as declaring that it is probable that during no previous similar period of 60 days has the temperature been so continuously and largely above the average over so extensive a region in the last half century. At the same time there was a large deficiency of rainfall that added to the crop damage. The Secretary says that "while the total values of the crop in 1911 are not so high as in 1910, there is great abundance for all purposes." For the first time in many years the total value of farm products has declined from that of the preceding year. The estimate for 1911 is based on the census items, and is $8,417,000,000, or $277,000,000 under the total for 1910. The loss is chargeable to the general classes of animal products and animals sold and
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1911, v. 66, no. 52 (Dec. 30) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6652 |
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 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - 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 not-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 2011-04-12 |
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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 | VOL. LXVI INDIANAPOLIS, DEC. 30, 1911. NO. 52 Agricultural Conditions THF. PRODUCTION'S OP 1ft 11 MORF. VALUABLE THAN THOSE OP 1910. ADVANCE REPORT OP TARY WILSON. SECRE- The fifteenth annual report of the rrnent without being tested for germination condition. The schools want more of our publications than we have to give them. Seven hundred and fifty million dollars is the best estimate for poultry products this year. All Government agencies that conserve public health should be grouped together in one bureau. The Department of Agriculture has had success in the Southern States through object lessons in the fields, where the best southern farmers in their counties were the instructors. This method should be organized in all the States along lines of greatest necessity. Our systems of renting land are faulty and result in soil robbing; where them profitable. Our foresters are learning by experiments how to reforest 30,000 acres in a year; ten times as much must be planted anually to cover all the bare acres in a generation. It will be done. There shoud be publicity regarding the cold storage of foods, through monthly reports to some Federal authority that would give them to the press, to the end that the people might know to what extent foods were being withdrawn from consumption. A Bountiful Harvest. .Secretary of Agriculture is now ready for the public. As is the case with the previous reports this one deals with what our government has done during the past year on the varied problems of national importance in agriculture. Secretary Wilson begins the report with the following: Important Suggestions. When the cattle-fever tick is destroyed in the Southern States the country will get much more meat from that section and the producing of it will build up the farms there. The hog cholera serum developed in this department is successful where it i.s properly made and applied. Would it be asking too much of our universities to have them educate more plant pathologists and road engineers? Kvery country In the world that has diseased plants that can not be sold at home can ship them to us. This results in great loss. The chestnut disease here is an illustration. After years of experimentation we find we can grow Egyptian cotton In southern California and bulbs in the State of Washington . The finest dates from the Sahara Desert succeed in our Southwest. No seed is sent out from this ilepart- The day is not far distant when we will cease to import potash. We are sending explorers to the ends of the earth for new plants—and getting them. The phosphates are abundant in our country for all possible uses, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Idaho may be mentioned as depositories. If good roads from the producer to the consumer were general, the benefits to both would be considerable. When a foreign insect invades, our scientists seek its enemy where it came from. The natural enemy of the boll weevil was an ant that could not endure our winters, but the native ant is getting busy. The experiment stations of the several States are doing better work each succeeding year; the scientists are maturing and the people are appreciating. The object lesson in agriculture is the best teacher; we had 60,000 of them at work last year. Six hundred thousand short tons of beet sugar were made last year in 67 factories. There is an estimated world's shortage of 1,600,000 long tons of sugar this year. The consumer pays a dollar for food; the farmer gets less than fifty cents for it. Who gets the rest? tho renter can not provide domestic animals, the owner should arrange to furnish them so that rotation of crops may be had, and hay and grains may be fed on the farm. Irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is new and full of plant food; but, where the crops are sold year by year, irrigation will not of itself assure good results. Alaska* will some day provide farmers in lower latitudes with grain seeds superior to what they can grow at home. The corn crop is moving northward by seed selection. The southern farm boy is showing the way to grow more of all crops on an acre. Educate the farmer's boy toward a more valuable life on the farm. Uplift the farm home through the education of the farmer's daughter toward greater usefulness and attractiveness in the farm home. Save all the liquid fertilizers on the farm, in cisterns, to be applied where crops are to grow; this will recover the greatest farm waste of our times. There is great promise in the fact that whole classes of graduates of agricultural colleges go back to the farms, having learned how to make Crops of 1911 and Tlieir Value In discussing crop production and values the Secretary states that the climatic conditions of the early part of the growing season of 1911 were adverse to agriculture throughout the country east of the Rocky mountains in a degree that exceeds all records. For a period of 60 days, beginning early in May, a series of hot waves of marked severity so early in the season followed one another tn rapid succession, and the Weather Bureau Is quoted as declaring that it is probable that during no previous similar period of 60 days has the temperature been so continuously and largely above the average over so extensive a region in the last half century. At the same time there was a large deficiency of rainfall that added to the crop damage. The Secretary says that "while the total values of the crop in 1911 are not so high as in 1910, there is great abundance for all purposes." For the first time in many years the total value of farm products has declined from that of the preceding year. The estimate for 1911 is based on the census items, and is $8,417,000,000, or $277,000,000 under the total for 1910. The loss is chargeable to the general classes of animal products and animals sold and |
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