Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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ROCKFORD. IA
CORRESPONDENT
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, COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION.
! President Roosevelt recently trans-
mitted to congress the voluminous re-
port of the country life commission
which lie appointed about a year ago
to Investigate Into agricultural condi-
tions and life over the country and re-
port to him and make recommenda-
tions which they thought would be in-
strumental In Improving conditions.
T' e commission consisted of four men
of exceptional qualifications both In
breadth of view and keen Insight into
the agricultural needs and problems
of the country. Their report to the
president consisted of a digest of the
data and evidence secured at thirty
public hearings held at different points
and attended by the farmers and farm-
ers' wives of forty different states and
territories and from 120,000 answers
to printed questions, which were very
generally distributed. In the execu-
tive letter of trnnsmlssal to congress,
which Is really an admirable digest of
the committee's report. It Is pointed
out that the general level of country
life Is high and compares favorably
with that of any previous era in the
history of the country. Yet, notwith-
standing this condition, farming does
not yield the financial returns it ought
to give. Added to this, there is much
discontent, and even discouragement.
Three ways are Nuggested which. It is
thought, will help to Improve this con-
dition—namely, a better type of farm-
ing. better business methods and a
better tyj e of living on the farm.
With a view to realising these ends
the president makes the following rec-
ommendations:
"First.—Effective co-operation among
farmers, to put them on a level with
the organized Interests with which
they do business.
"Second.—A new kind of schools In
the country, which shall teach the
children as much outdoors as Indoors
and i*'rhaps more, so that they will
prepare for country life and not. a*
At present, mainly for life In town.
"Third.—Better means of commtinlca
tlon, Including good roads and a par-
cels post, which the country people
are everywhere, and rightly, unanl-
■nous In demanding."
The federal department of agricul-
ture, state experiment stations, the
agricultural press and other agencies
are recognized as agencies which are
doing an excellent service In favoring
m better type of agriculture, which,
realized, would mean a doubling of
crop yields In many sections of the
country. The president asserts that,
rightly viewed and carried on, agricul-
ture should be one of the most digni-
fied. desirable and sought after ways
of earning a livelihood. In bringing
this condition of things to pass em-
phasis Is placed on the need of organi-
sation and co-operation for business
and social reasons. The religious need
Is also recognized and an important
place given the country church In this
connection, while an especial tribute Is
paid the home as the most powerful
factor In the development of charac-
ter and personality, the presence or
lack of which tends to make life rich
or poor. At the close <>f his message
the president emphasizes tlie fact that
the permanency of our civilization de-
pends upon the whoiesomeness. attrac-
tiveness and completeness as well as
the prosperity of country life. An ap-
propriation of $20,000 Is recommended
in order Jlint the commission may be
able to digest the material It has col-
Je^tedjind to co|)ecj and digest other
valuable data "which arc* within easy
reach. While this Is but a teglnnlmr.
the work of the country life commls-
fllon Is bound to result In untold bene-
fit.
p., ^ . —
AN IMMEDIATE PROBLEM.
Tillers of the soil In all the older
agricultural sections of the country
are up against an economic proposition
which It would be well worth while
for tin-in to take Into serious account.
We refer t<> that to be found in an In-
crease In the value of farm lands In
the sections referred to. a correspond-
ing increase In rental c harges, and this
coupled with th^j fact of a contlnual'v
decreasing soil fertility. Those w' a
have thought of this problem even su
perficlally can realize at once that this
condition of affairs cannot continue
long. Either the soli robbing methods
of tilling land will have to be aban-
doned and a more rational fcystem
adopted In their place in the shape of
dairying and stock raising or else
farms of the class referred to will
themselves have to be abandoned. The
wise course to follow would seem to
lie along the line of a reformation of
agricultural methods, which Is the only
way out of the dlfflcu'ty consistent
with financial consideration and patri-
otic regard for the dignity of agricul-
ture as a vocation and the marvelous
original endowment of soil fertility.
We should quit this dishonorable busi-
ness of soil robbery and develop a
keener regard than we feel for the
agricultural bankruptcy which It will
lead to If persisted in.
Money in circulation in the United
States on Feb. 1 this year is placed
at $3,091.312,&4ft, which, divided among
the 88.328,000 population, gives a per
capita circulation of $.'i.r>.
The denatured alcohol output of the
country for 1008 was 3,874,025 gallons,
a gain of 15 per cent over the 1007
product, which amounted to 3,304.fSOO
gallons. Prospects for the present
j ear are for a largely Increased pro-
duction.
In all of the northern states where
the cold winters, with alternate thaw-
ing and freezing, give the ore hard 1st
concern It Is well to give the young
orchard tree a low head, which will
protect the trunk from Intense beat in
summer and do much to dissipate the
rays of the sun In winter.
Good times are said to be quite ac-
curately measured by the condition of
the pig Iron trade. This has been given
still further Illustration of late in the
figures of the iron trade for the past
two years. In 1007 the output was the
largest on record, being 25,181,361 tons,
while last year, following the financial
depression, the production of pig Iron
fell to 15.93tl.018 tons, a slump of 38
per cent.
Missouri and Kansas horticulturists
are beginning to realize the danger to
their orchards from a spread of the
dreaded San Jose scale and have
Joined In a petition to the legislatures
of the two states for laws which will
provide for nursery Inspection as well
as the location and isolation of Infest-
ed orchards and the taking of such
precautions as will prevent a spread
of the scourge.
A reason which will account for
young orchard trees not bearing soon-
er than they do after being set may
lie In the soil befng too rich In nitro-
gen as compared with the other chief
elements, potash and phosphorus.
To correct this condition manure
should be kept from the trees and the
vigorous growth checked by putting
the trees In grass for a couple of
years. It Is possible to be too kind to
young fruit trees, and overmanurlng
them Is one of the easiest.
An Oklahoma lady reader of these
notes reports that a field of alfalfa
which Is located near her poultry
yard is frequented by her flock dur-
ing all the winter months when the
weather will permit, and In that lati-
tude this is virtually the whole win-
ter season. The field with Its plarts
rich in protein makes an Ideal pasture,
furnishing not only needed exercise,
but a most valuable ration of nourish-
ing green food. In the north these ad-
vantages can be but poorly imitated
with the scratching shed and clover
hay.
The farmer who would make any i
headway In either stock raising or
dairying is taking a very long and J
hazardous chance when he picks out a
sire for his herd from a bunch of non-
descript bovlnes at the local stock-
yards and tenders In pay for him the
princely sum of $25. The purchaser
may not know nny more about the I
pedigree or merit of a sire selected In |
such fashion than he does of the char- |
acter or qualifications as a son-in-law
of the hobo who asks a hand-out at his
back door In l < th cases lie would i
going it l !h d and could hardly escape
being dubbed a fool.
An Interesting fact was brought to
the writer's attention the other day In
showing the contrast In the type of
farm help whi< h Is to be found In Wis-
consin. Michigan and other north cen-
tral states aid some of the more re-
cently settled portions of states far
ther west. This was In tlie attitude I
which was t be observed In the two I
communities of I ir d men who were
Irresponsible i:i keeping ileir word I
with their ctnployeis. in the < Ider sec- I
tlon su h men being comparatively!
rare and he'd in puMlc scorn, while In I
the newer they were so common and
the reliable kb <1 of help so sc roe that j
they had t>> be accorded a treatment j
that was urn h m< re courteous than ■
they deserved. This difference Is due j
fundamentally to difference In charac-
ter and Ideals, which In a way are a 1
matter of development and evolution
so far as community life Is concerned. I
One can hold a penny or uickel s<
close to his eye that It will obscure
the distant dollar or gold eagle. The
fellow w.ho scrimps ou the price of hit-
seed grain is a victim of this very
Illusion wh n he ought to know better
Wise parents should keep the tit If
of a good portion of their hard earned
property In their own name as long as
they live. Considerate children should
not only acquiesce in this arrange-
ment, but should in good faith see
that it is carried out.
Experiments conducted by the ani-
mal husbandry depart inert of the New
York experiment station at Cornell
give a value of 5-1 cents per hundred
weight of skimmiik fed to growing
pigs. If these figures are correct, one
of the common b\produ ts of the aver-
age farm has been grievously under
estimated hi past years.
Before the small grain Is put Into the
seeder It should be given a good blast
of air in the fanning mill In the gran-
ary or taken to the elevator, where a
still more thorough Job can be done.
This treatment will remove dirt and
dust, shrunken kernels ami a great
majority of the weed seeds. This wlil
Insure a more even stand and will
mean less weeds and more satisfac-
tion In every way from the growing
crop.
The secret of the prosperity and
contentment to be found In sections of
the country largely devoted to dairy
ing lies in the fact that In the market-
ing of a ton of butter but 2'. cents'
worth of soil fertility Is removed from
the farm premises. More fertility Is
marketed in the shape of live stock
and still more when the raw cereal
products are sold, which mnk s the
last named the most spendthrift type
of agriculture which can be followed.
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leases and NotarI°s' Supplies, made
according to statehood forms; Type-
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yers' Briefs. We also have a complete
line of U. S. Commissioners' Blanks
for the Western District U. S. Court
Rubber Stamps and Seals, Meal Files
and Filers for small merchants' con-
venient accounts.
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A thoughtful article in n rec ent issue
of a leading farm paper points out the
fact that the value of many of the ex-
periment* conduc ted by state agricul-
tural experiment stations is greatly
lessened because so many of tlie tests
are carried out on a very limited sc ale
and under conditions which It would
be Impossible for the average farmer
to duplicate because of lack of help
and time. In ti measure this criticism
is well founded In that experiments
may be conducted on a small scale
with remarkable results whl h would
not produce any such results were
they carried out extensively with the
amount of land which the average
farmer undertakes. At the same time
It Is well to take into account the fact
that one ( f the truths which the ex-
periment stations are trying to drive
home to the minds of the tillers of
the soil Is that they are working
from two to three times ns much
land ns they can handle to advantage
and that If an amount were kept un-
der cultivation which could be given
the attention that It ought to receive
some of these same Invaluable inten-
sive experiments- so viewed by some-
would be considered of a much more
practical nature than now. Perhaps
the experimenters should Increase by
threefold the land which they de-
rote to grain raising tests, while It Is
Just ns plain that the farmer should in
many cases decrease his plow land by
the same threefold ratio to handle It in
an effective and satisfactory manner.
It is hard to understand why sr
many sections of the country which
are already well embarked In a dairy
and stock raising type of agriculture
should be so slow in adopting the silo
as one of the best possible means of
utilizing economically one of the most
Important home grown products of the
farm, it would seem that a silo and
ensilage gospel needs preaching in a
good many benighted sections of the
country which agriculturally at least
are not living up to their opportunities
Where a locality Is especially favor-
able to a growing of apples or other
kinds of fruit It Is well for several to
unite In the growing of the same well
known standard varieties. This makes
It possible to handle fruit of one kind
In car lots, while buyers will come
from a distance if a considerable quan-
tity of given varieties may be had.
More than this, the spraying, pruning
and cultivation of similar types ol
fruit In the same neighborhood would
be much the same, and one fruit grow-
er could learn from his neighbors and
perhaps in turn help those of less ex
perlence.
About the only argument which we
have heard urged against the growing
of alfalfa Is that this responsive
legume produces so many crops In one
season sometimes five or six that It
keeps a fellow at home cutting and
curing It almost as closely as If ic
were a widower and had a family <>f
eight kids and a weekly washing ci
his hands. A feature that makes the
matter somewhat worse is that alfaL.i
requires more attention In the curing
than do most other kinds of hay. A
thought th't may give general consola-
tion, however. Is that the closer most
fellows sta at home the more circum-
spect citizens they usually are.
A conception that Is quite general
among people of eastern states Is that
the horse raising business of the
Rocky mountain and Pacific slope
states is still In the broncho stage. The
picture of the proverbial cowboy
mounted 011 his mustang, so common
In the newspaper and magazine illus-
trations of the day. is doubtless in
large measure responsible for the nils
conception referred t< . but a very dif
feront status « f the hor^c raising busi-
ness of the west Tn the case Many of
the large farm a d r.n !i owners have
been buying ad shipping In the best
types of s| :• d aed draft horses which
could be so urod. wi'h the result that
some of the finest hordes which the
country produ cs a c raised west of
the Mi-siut'l river. d :\ number of
western eitics are already taking a
high rani; as In r e in rl.ef- which are
frequented by Ml' eastern buyers.
The success of many a farmers' co-
operative enterprise 1 jeopardized il
not made eiitir-ly impossible because
of an undue closeness or economy on
the part of directors or stockholders,
shown in an unwilliin-ne-s to pay a
reasonal le price for competent super-
intendents and managers. It Is a dead
sure thing that sin h enterprises will
not manage themselves or succeed
financially without c-lc.se and thought-
ful supervision. In view of this It
seems plain, since any individual stock
holder or director c annot give the su-
pervision required, that some one must
be hired who will be able to do it if
the business Is to succeed There Is no
type of undertaking whic h has to en
counter more serious obstacles from
the economic point of view than those
which are co-operative, where no one
has a paramount but many a compara-
tively slight and equal Interest, and
none of the obstacles referred to Is
more serious or worthy of more care
ful attention than the one mentioned.
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was no use trying to get well. A
friend recommended Dr. Miles'
Nervine, and although skeptical
at first, I soon found myself re-
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MRS. I). 1. JONHS,
5800 Broadway, Cleveland, O.
Much sickness is of nervous
origin. It's the nerves that
make the heart force the blood
through the veins, the lungs
take in oxygen, the stomach di-
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and the kidneys filter the blood.
If any of these organs are weak,
it is the fault of the nerves
through which they get their
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way of farm tools and implements,
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balk at.
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