THE MED FORD DAILY TRIBUNE. M FUFORD, OR.. SATTIMUY. MAY 2X 1H0S.
ABUSE OF SOIL .
WEARS OUT LAND
Suicide in Agriculture Discussed by
James J, Hill Rotation of Crops Is
Essential to Conserve Soil Resources
and Prevent Exhaustion.
(By James J. Hill.)
Far more ruinous than erosion because
universal a ad continuing in its effects,
is the process of soil exhaustion. It i
creeping over tho land from east to
west. The abandoned farms that are
now the playthings of the city's rich
or the Riiine preserves of patrons of
sport bear witness to tho meluueholy
change. New Hampshire, Vermont,
northern New York, show Umg lisU of
them. Iu western Massachusetts which
onto supported a flourishing rtgrleul
ture, farm properties are now for sale
for half tho cost of the improvements.
Professor Carver of Harvard has de
clared after a personal examination nf
the country that "agriculture us an in
dnpendent mdustrv, able in itself to
support a community, does not exist
in the hillv parts of New Kn gland
Tho tamo proeess of deterioration is
affecting tho farm laudse of western
Now York, Ohio and Indiana. Where
prices of farms shuuld rise bv increase
of population, in many places they are
falling.
Tho richest region of the west is no
more exempt than Now England or the
south. The soil of the west is being
reduced in agricultural potency by ex
actly the same processes which have
driven the farmer of tho east, with all
his advantage of nenrncs sto markets,
froo) the field.
Agricultural Abuses of Soil.
Hut the fact of soil waste becomes
startliugly evident when we examine the
record of some states where single crop
ping and other agricultural abuses have
boon provnlent. Take the ease of wheat
the mainstay of singlo crop abuse. Many
of us can remember when New York
was the great wheat producing state of
the Union. Tho average yield of wheat
an acre in New York for the last ten
years was about 18 bushels. For the first
tive years of that ton years period it
was 18.4 bushels, and fa? the last five
li.4 bushels, iu the further west Kan
sas takes high rank as a wheat pro
ducer. Its average yield an aero for
the last ten years was 14.16 bushels.
For tho first five of those years it was
13.14 and for tho last five 13.18. Up
in the norwest Minnesota wheat has
made a name all over the world. Her
averago yield an acre for the same ten
years was 12.90" bushels. For tho first
five years it was 1.1.12 and for tho last
five 12.8. We perceive here the work
ing of a uniform law, independent of
location, soil or climate. It is the law
of a diminishing return due to soil des
truction. No Necessity of Wearing Out.
When tho most fertile land in the
world produces so much less than that
of poorer quality elsewhere, and this
low yield shows a tendency to steadily
decline, tho situation becomes clear. We
are robbing the soil in an effort to get
the largest cash returns from each acre
of ground in the shortest possible time
with the least possible labor.
Prohibition in
Aitchison Kan.
Robert F. An tie. Who Has Bought the
Johnson Place, Tells of Condi! Ions in
Kansas City Stagnation of Business
Interests and Murder of Prosperity
Followed Law's Enforcement
and
We frequently hear it said that the
reduction in yield is due to the wearing
out of the soil, as if it was a garment
to be destroyed by the wearing. The
fact is that soils either increase or
maintain their productivity indefinite
ly under proper cultivation. If the
earth, the great mother of human and
animal life, is to "wear out" what is
to become of the racof Tho two reme
dies are as well ascertained as is the
evil. Rotation of crops and the use of
fertilizers act as tonics upon the soil.
We might expand our resources and
add billions of dollars to our national
wealth by conserving soil resources in
stead of exhausting them, ns we have
tho forests and the contents of the
mines. For them is good authority for
the assertion that tho farmer could
take from the same urea of ground in
four years grain crops out of a total
of seven years as much as tho whole
seveu now give him, leaving the prod
net 9 of tho other three years when the
land rested from grain as a clear profit
due to better methods.
Adding Wealth to the Nation.
Of our farm areas only one-half is
improved. It does not produce one-half
of what, it could be made to yield, not
by some complex system of intensive
culturo, but merely by ordinary care
and industry intelligently applied. It
is the capital upon which alone we can
draw through all the future, but the
amount of the draft that will be honor
ed depcuds upon the care nnd intelli
gence given to its cultivation. Were
any statesman to show us how to add
$7,000,000,0000 nnnually to nur foreign
trado it would he the sensation of the
hour. The way to odthis in agricul
ture is open. Our share in tho increase
would not be the percentage of profit
allowed by successful trading, hut the
entire capital sum. On the other side
stands the fact that the unappropriated
area suited to farm purposes is almost
gone, and that we have been for the last
century reducing the producing power
of the country. Nowhere in the range
of national purposes is the reward for
conservation of a national resource so
ample; nowhere is the penttay of neg
lect so threatening.
- Robert T. Antle of Atchison, Kail.,
has just purchased 100 acres pf C. O.
.lohuson, adjoining the Kaiser orchard,
formerly the Simon place, near Phoe
nix. About 40 acres is iu orchard. The
price paid was-$18,000. '
'l hope the people of Jackson coun
ty have eeiist- enough to vote against
prohibition," said Mr. Antle. "I come
from a prohibition state and know how
it works.
'Wo hove had prohibition for years,
in Kuusns. During all this time
until n few mouths ago, when
the attorney-general interfered,
there were itt) saloons openly 111 Atchi
son. These saloons were orderly, closed
Sunday uitd at, midnight. There was
little druukeiiness on the streets.
but
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
I have for sale at $63.50 per acre, SO acres of as fine
orchard land as there is in Rogue River valley. The im
provements on place are worth at least .f 12"6. Let urn
show you this land.
ALFRED SMITH
OVER JACKSON COUNTY BANK.
These saloons paid annual fines of .friOO
apiece. In addition, there were four
agencies of b"g eastern breweries,. which
also paid ti0il a year fine apiece. This
made a total revenue of $2u,40u n year
from saloons and largely paid tho city
expenses.
1 here is a brewery at Aitchison
that, when the prohibition law was
passed, was a small affair and prac
tically bankrupt. Under prohibition it
has grown to be one of the largest
breweries iu tho country and has clear-
I'd $175,000 outsido of improvements.
Kven today it runs four daily deliv
ery wagons in Atchison.
'Since the attorney-general closed
the saloons in Atchison most of them.
including the eastern breweiy ngcucies,
have moved across the river into Kast
Atchison, on tho Missouri side, and
the city of Atchison is out over $'2l)t
000 a year revenue, for which an in
creased tax has had to bo levied.
"Thero nro Hi drug stores in Atchi
son that sell booze by the drink, from
i to o boot-leggers and so vera I blind
pigs. 1 heso pay government licenses
only.
'The police court cases have in
creased o to 1 iu the past few months.
and the number of drtc:ks on the street
show a still larger increase. Mora boys
are arrested for drunkenness than ever
iu tho city's history.
"The 30 buildings occupied by the
saloons are nil vacant or have been rent
ed at greatly reduced rentals, lieuts
have fallen nil over the business sec
tion of Atchison and tho construction
of new buildings stopped.
'farmers who used to eonio to At
chison to buy supplies and spend their
mouoy now go to Kansas City, nud At
chison merchants are out this trade.
In brief, the enforcement of prohibi
tion has killed prosperity and brought
about stagnation in Atchison."
METHOD OF SAVING
ROSES FROM MILDEW
Just Received- A Carload of Extra Heavy Green lath
CEDAR BEVELfcD SIDING
ANYTHING MADE PROM TREES
Quotations promptly and cheerfully furnished ' "
Woods Lumber Co.
KILNS AM) MILLS AT (JLKXPALK OREGON '
YAlil) AND OF KICK AT MFDFORI), OL'LGOX.
For Fine Meats
More Quantity Than Elsewhere
More Quality Than Elsewhere
More Money Left Over '
The Medford Meat Co.
Sucessors to Pottenger Next to Hotel Nash jj
HUME MUST PAY FINE
FOR VIOLATING THE LAW
KALKM, Or., May l!'J, Affirmation
of the ease of the state vs. H. I). Hume
by the supremo court makes it obli
gatory upon the defendant to pay n fine
of $."iu for canning salmon in heruiet
ienlly sealed tin runs without having
first secured the proper liccuso from tho
state. The conviction was secured by
a deputy game warden iu Curry county
ami the case was appealed on an al
legiil error made by the ecmrt.
Hume, through his attorneys, rhnl
lenged the vnidity of the aw licensing
salmon canneries on the ground that the
law was not within that function of Iho
legislative powers defined as police reg
ulation. The attorneys contended it was
the intention of those who f ram d tin-
law that it was to be u means onlv
of raising revenue, ami therefore was
uneoual iu its operation and violated
tho organic law of the state.
I he supreme court held that it was.
properly under the category nf police !
regulation and not invalid. - '
Do You Use
Tho host flour that can
1)0 milled from the host
wheat money can hny ?
Davis Best Flour
Is "host" hy every test.
.It sells for less money
and Rives twiee as nuich
satisfaction.
Don't let yonr grocer
talk yon into buying
oilier brands shipped in.
Try a sack and be convinced.
If You are Particular
About Hit quality of wliaf you buy
it bo a bottlo of cough syrup or ;
soap,
whether
cake til'
FIVE THOUSAND ACRES
OF PLACER ON KLAMATH
Over 5000 acres of placer claims hnyr
been located on the Klamath rver in
Ibis fount v dnrino- the Inwt few weeks.
Thirty-two notices were filed on May 1 1
for record, each notice covering I'!"'
acres.
All this mining ground is b-atd for
dredging purposes. The locations are
made by tho same parties who recently
located thousand nf acres nf similar
ground along the Klamath and Trinity
river in Del Norte, Humboldt and
Trinity counties.
The claims located in this county ex
lend from Humboldt county line up
stream to the vicinity of Hamburg, near
tk mouth of Scott river.
SAN FBANCISCO, May 23. Con
gratulations are pouring in on Hugo Lil-
icnthnl of Herkeley, a horticulturist of
note, on his diaeovery of a method of
saving young roses from mildew, which
means that from 50 to 7. per cent of
roses grown will he preserved from des
truction. Liliiuithal has informed Sec
retary of Agriculture Wilson of his dis
covery. His grafting of the tender
slips upon the dog rose, the grafting
entering the dog rose bark obliquely
but not entering the core. The dog rose,
having hard, glossy leaves, able to re
sist the attack of the mildew, protects
itH little proteges and lends them Home
of its own hardiness.
MAKE IT UNANIMOUS.
Just now there appears to be little
dmint hut that it in Senator Cake of
Oregon. Once tho campaign started it
wan speedily seen that the oft boasted
personal popularity of Oeorge the gov
ernor was n .t ho almighty stout ns it
once was. Various things that some
folks have known about our chief ex
ecutive have come to light, nnd a lot of
folks are today doubtful if George was
such a whale of a man nfter all.
The nearer Oregon makes it unani
mous for Cake the better for Oregon.
There are a few places where party
politics still count; they don't usually
in city, county and district affairs, but
they do in national affairs, especially
in the upper house of congress, where
the majority party gets what it wants
and the minority sits tight and waits.
Oregon wants a bit of things from con
gross; it can never gi't them through a
democratic senator.
Met ween the men personally the issue
is not drawn; it is not n personal cam
paign. If it was, Mr. Cake would not
bo on the defensive.
It is also remembered that Cake way
one of the republicans who Imd the
nerve to stand on Statement No. 1 plat
form when it looked as though thnt
meant defeat; he, stoid for the popular
election of tho Cnited States senator
whether it profited him or not. Cham
berlain has stood for it because it was
his sole chance of ever landing the
place.
The vast difference between being
good because you hope it will pay and
because it is right represent the dif
ference between the stand of Mr. Cham
bcrlain and Mr. Cake.
I NEW ENGINEER NAMED
FOR COLUMBIA JETTY
You Should Go
Prompt Delivery
Good Stock
Right Prices
CRATER LAKE
LUMBER COMPANY
Oil I
to t lie )lin-( where satisfaction is assured to
particular people; where quality is unsur
passed and where the prices are rifjil. Then
go
To the Eagle Pharmacy
I he
The
and get the best. This store carries
well-known proprietarv remedies.
slock of all kinds of high-grade stal ioticry is
complete, and nowhere this side of 'Portland
can be found such an up-to-date and exclus
ive assortment of toilet articles, soaps, per
fumes, etc.
Prescription Work
Is a special consideration. Two graduate
A. R.
pharmacists are in char;
ful work is guaranteed.
AVI HTM AX, Manager.
,c ami the most care-
PALM lil.OCK.
Vvoliibilionisls hit
A iniii litis spn'iifj,
. I ( I lift Nil u llllll
Di'iukiiiji is ii hud Ih in f.
i;:irill'ss of wlii'tln-r .l:irl:(im roniilv
.m's prnlii nr mil, IIiiiho wlio wisli In
ilrinli will drink; llii-v will miilnnlili'ilh'
jiv iihh'i' llinl imiyi'i' wliinky till'
kith Hull in.'iki-H it mint luiln tnin.sHI' ;mi
c en l.o.tv In. miM-ls n ml riuikcs liim
w:mt in fiylit. Cut if you :i I rnlli.r
In. nil- imhist ry yon yet I In IichI rilus
on tlii ni.-irlii-t. Our Moilfr.nl fir, Ii.
K. , mill l)rl MuriMi 1.1c CinrH
nialio v.ni smilo,
To The Public
IIAVIXl! IXST.VLI.KD .M At II I NKIt V
I'Oli TIIK . M.WI'lWl TI-KI-: or
111(111 (Hi IN ('K CltKAM, VK AUK
i'i;i:i'Aui;i) to yu.i, am, oi;ni:i;.s, .
i.AlidK Oil SMALL. DKLI VIOIll KS
MAIIK TO ANY I'.WtT OK TIIK CITY.
SI'KCIAL OlilU'.liS (!IVKN (MIR
I'lIOMI'T ATTKXTIOV. OltULp AT
MKIU'OIM) HOOK STO 11 H OH
CUKAMKIfV.
Rogue River Creamery
Medford
MANUFACTURED BY It. R. V. CIGAR
WORKS, MEDFORD, OR.
R. W. GRAY, Builder
COLONIAL POUCH Woli'K, (!ll LL A N 1 LATJ I
WOIJK. P ATT LUX'S, l-JTO.
TiaUPIION'L 171.
M HD'FOttl), OP.
TIIK ONLY PLACK IN .M LDI'OIM) TO (iLT
Ready Prepared Lunch Goods
ROAST OIIIOKLXS,
LOAF. CIIICKLN
L'OAST POUK. K.L
AND POTATO SALAD
Alway Fresh, Everything Cleanly
Ol'U FPKSII ISA KEi; V STI FFS A'l.'K TIIK
ISFST IN
STPFF
TOWN
The DELICATESSEN
C ST PH FT, N FA IJ KM i I IT 1 1
Suffragist Abuso Initiative nnd Rnf- j
oronrtum. i
Dili' of the iinks of (lie rt nill itii ii
slnto iliitfottii U !ih follow: 1
U'f uro (i.iosi'iI to tin jiImimi' of (In
inili.ilivt' nnt p'tVn-ioliiin lv llio hoiV
iiinsitiii to Ihr f'Opli' of Inriri iiuihlii-rs
uii-atiri'H on tin' ;ino hiillot. Tin ,
iroilc ftif Inn lniry to jivt' Uo'W1 lut'.'tH j
'in- tin' iitti'iit ton ih'Cchmii ry to insure ,
vv is' tu iioii. Tlio tnirnlii'r of iimiiiiiik
to It miImiiM let! to nnv oio election '
sloiolil Ik- limih'd nn! h hhoiiM lie fur
tlirr pro oli-il licit ;t iMi-alirr oiii-e vol
I ilown by 1 lm "nilr nlioulil In- in
liiLlr to a l;i- on 1 1n- ballot f..r n
ihtuhI of kik vnjrs Mi'Mvnftrr.
Tin- hi 1 1 it purt of llii jilank in Ii;ii
ly ilirerli'il ayaiiist woman Miffrajfi.
Tln proposition wti t lionmltly run
:ihhiI (wo yi mi' :iL" iiikI was nVIVati-l
by a majority of it,l7-'!. There lia bi-in
no i-Ikim-' in public opinion oil thi
I:,. Ii
!. Him
Small Orchards
On Easy Terms. Gity
Property and Ftuit .
Groves i'or Sale
ii a in ! t iir tin tn iyra lion into I
:i IjI'i n i-liii'ffy of tlioxe oppo-aiiii'ji'imi-iit.
erl heir, it
tlw
.i e;i t ti fiHNti'l on tin bnllol uii'l
ini-ilea-lint; liilr of "iipinl miff raji' in
'lie Impe that llirioili I In inattention of
l In- M.lrri ami the rarre-Mois Hllirll
ill follow f loiti I Im- litre n umber of
prpii-il inii- m i bin it I ei(, I Ii im iiic.'i ait re
may lip tlironyli. The roiiM iit ion is
riyhi. This an iihue of Ifie initia
i Tin- aiiierulinrnt oiihl to be i-
I"'imI by a Inror inajoiity than tint
it I - ii year :il'". m
Ft t'f find T it - A rye Onjuilils ml flit'
iil.sfuhiit til plmi. Tlx i iItl h tml nf
sin', he ilijlil li'nni of I ncs inn! the
n'tIff ftn'rrs.
Ttrcttlif iff ttrs r.rffcriciirr in fruit
niivintj Iu'eks mi r jinliiin nf. 117 litirr
snhl Imlf Hi, ftrrlinnl. in I lie vullcff
11 ml Imrr iji In vt fiirrchftscr (lis
sitfisfinl irilli liis httrttiin,
lit I orr lui if i n if st r
INOCULATED
WITH HYDROPHOBIA
CHAMBERLAIN COMEH OUT
AGAINST THE JAPANESE
WASHINGTON. ((May 2.1. Mnjnr
.Initio K. Mc !nil" rnjjinPT nffirpr now
ttntinneil nt New Orlenntt, wnn toilay or
rlfrt-4 to pmore! tn Portland n wmn nn.
pOMlllin HU'T .MIIV i 1" mini- '
rt. W. KoomI-t.
Mnjor Mrlmle' hus for a lon time
b(H-n tationoH nt NVw Orlrnn. whorr
he hnl chartfi f Saliin I'bm and
inipmvrnimt of tho lower MiMimippi.
He hrn l" "i 'n Wehiti(j
ton. ntnl ' liiwM.v ngunb'il iu the en
g. river curp.
XKW VOWK. Mny Ir. In Van
(ftffipii, rxfHTt on livdrophobin fr tin
New York bonnl of health, wh inoen
luted with hydrophobia toilny while
making an mitnpy of the hiy of Wil
liam II. Mnrli, the Brooklyn tuannfae
lurer who dieil of that ilitieane venter
ilnv. Ir. Van dirm n nerateheil hi firm
with one of the bone from Mr. Mnrih'
boilv. Or. V;m tlienen ttai'l he hml
lieen iiifM-iilntcil befure, ami he m
preyed only muioyanre nt the ju-'i'b-nt.
lie went to tho laboratory of the board
of health for Irentttient nnd will nn
tu tho Pftfttfur institute IhLit,
liusKltlUC.
( hanibeilaiii li;
aa int t he a
::.
nt flat f..
f th- ..I
.allh ..f
th-
imilal
.lapan"4'' in t Ihtomiii
yon.
'l would ratjii-t hi my rliildu-n yn
iiiii'dneated than allow thi-m to Hit uitli
! .Ta pan ee in t he tip lion 1 1 toii, ' ' hi- de
Hared M'"iin lay nit; lit in a spp -h
hpr. The ntat"ineiit wan n i Ii with
applane,
t itp i-r it or t haiiilnTlain it 1 tun pi
the utato in the intrlints of hix en (hi i
dae for the t'liite.i Htutet ttriiiite.
i'he liest. e'piipp(d jolt printing offirt
ti Hunt hern Oron, nnployinif nkilb-d
jliioit priittern -The Triltuitf.
Rogue River Land Co.
Exhibit Building
The
htiild
Stop Paying Rent.
bdd Kay Ifialty ( ompativ will
ii n limine to unit you ami yon
. for it in cy monthly pay
(n t iyale thin at ntn e. I 'nil
Went 7th nt reft. (i0 '
!
I
THE OLD HOWARD RANCH
Diiep mibn ,,n tli of M.dford ttnd
miles Mrxt ut I'hoettix. ifi now rut tip
in vmall triti ltt to unit the purchntier. J
'hp-fourth enh, bnltiti'-r in threo pny
fiieiit. This i n rare opportunity for i
fiteit of fluiitl tui iMiK. Littleil with nil J
tlitl Uelltl. '
We Want to Buy Lands
Realty Hoiul Svndicale of
Jackson County
Hank Annex
W. M. Stalker
Secretary