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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1905)
I it I I. .: i i ) i i fefA TALK WITH GUY ELLIOTT Socrotarr Wilson, ha tnd omclnl bond of tlio pront family of American formers, views with some consider able satisfaction the nhundnnt crops which liavo Mossed almost every sec tion of the country. "The harvests lmvo been hr-nTT." ne said, "and the farmers will mako more money than In an averape year. The prices on farm products will ho lower, but the crops will bring the farmers, nevertheless, more money. Living should bo cheaper, too. The hay and grain crops have been enor mous probably record breakers and meat as a result should be moro plen tiful and cheaper. I say It should be. The producer and consumer are so far apart, and so much goes on In between these two principals that it Is dimeult to say Just to what extent production affects the cost of actual consumption, f a irn.nt flinl troes to tlie niiouieman; i too much. I believe. It Is a long and devious pathway from the farmer to the man who eats the things which he has grown. I gave out a statement here the other day intimating that the local Washington dealers were charg ing in certain instances too much, and a dealer came at mo with a wrathy assertion to the effect that I did not know what I was talking about and tlmt he made a protit of only forty per cent Co-Operation In the South. "I have been watching the South with n trreat deal of interest." con tinued the Secretary. "They have ac complished more in effecting an or ganization down there to bring the cot tou producer and consumer together than has been attempted with any other of our great agricultural produc tions. The cotton crop Is a big one this vear .though not by any means a record breaker. The grass and bay crop is probably the biggest we have ever had; our corn tri p is probably a record crop and our wheat crop is one of the very largest" "That is the order of Importance of these crops .' "No, I should put cotton third In Im portance grass, corn, cotton, wheat; though of course, our meat animals, taken as a whole, are more important than anv one. Why, the poultry pro duction alone Is worth 4X million dol lars a vear as great or greater than the value of the wheat crop. We will undoubtedly export some very fine hogs this year choice corn fed hogs. Pork Is our greatest meat export. A quarter of a billion dollars would hardly cover our animals exported this year. I fancy, probably amounting to WAY DOWN SOUTH two-thirds of the value of the entire wheat crop of the country. No Longer Big Hog Eaters. "The American people aro no longer such great pork eaters, you know. Ve TO FIX THE PRICE. ...j "Jfs"' " SECRETARY WILSON. MITCHELL' t ' send ortf hogs Abroad" and are rating more mutton, veal and beef " "The rresent condition and the fu ture outlook rr the American farmer Is a good one then. Mr. Secretary T' "Yes. things certainly look well, generally; yet I believe we are very near to a sort of agricultural crisis hardlv a crisis perhaps, but an Import ant and radical change. The farm hands everywhere are leaving the farm for the factories. Wherever there Is any manufacturing you will find this to be the case. The farmer has pretty nearly reach oil his limit He Is doing about all he can do with his hands and with the most Improved labor-saving farm ma chinery worked by good horses. This bad condition on the farm Is going to affect production and prices, and that Western Wheat Scenes. very shortly. It Is impossiMe tosnyiust. w uui me tm-vi ui um . mo is coming. The farmer must have la bor, but with the prices of farm pro ducts as they are now, be can not meet tire wages offered by the factories; therefore the farm hands are gradually shifting toward the centers the towns and the cities." Mr. Wilson Not a Theorist. "I would like. Mr. Secretary, to have a message from you to the American farmer for the coming year." "Oh, I can never discuss things In an academic way," remarked Mr. Wil Bon, with a emile. "i'ou will have to "SOME PUITPEDCS." refer to some of our bulletins." "Well, I mean a few words of per sonal advice to the farmer, to an Indi vidual American farmer regarding his work for next year." IN DIXIE LAND. "No, I can not do anything with these hypothetical cases of higher farm edu cation." "Well, then, what should a man do with the manure which accumulates on his farm?" "lie should put It on his land," re plied the Secretary, now thoroughly at home; he should take It out on the land at once and not let it accumulate; haul it out and spread It on as fust as it is made. The ground will get the good of it." "Won't the ammonia evaporate and the fertility be lost to the soil?" "No, it has been demonstrated by carefid experiments that the hauling out of manure is the best method. It will go down into the grass roots. It will not lose the ammonia because am monia Is produced by bacteria and these bacteria flourish only under three conditions, moisture, heat and oxygen. There are three classes of bacteria which must operate upon manure be fore it Is available for plant food The ammonia bacteria attacks it first; it Is then converted by other bacteria Into nitrites, and, lastly, by still other bac teria, into nitrate, when the roots of the plant can then take It up as food. T1IS K1TCUSX GARDEX. More Than Two Thirds of the Living of a Family Can He KalseJ. If the farmer's wife could Indnce her llego lord to contribute tiio mum cans patience and labor next aprlnif to the kitchen garden which his grandfather did during his day, there would le perhaps a eonsldeinole gain In the household's economy as well as much satisfaction developed for the housewife. The old folks Insist that even with the greatly Increased vari ety and excellence In fruits and vege tables, due to many plant generations SECRET VltV WII.XOX AM) OKOVP OF CHIKKH. DKI'AUTMKNT OF AOUiri'I.Tf UK GROIMJS AT TIME l'r lUl.vr.M r.MR.i i.n.'-- of selection and lreedlng by the see-la- nn'ii iiiui m- r iiiM.', ii H mm m ii garden on an average Is not so well planted or tended, has less varlotw and on the vfholo Is much Inferior to the same institution in tho "gooJ old davs- when grandfather was a Ih.v. ' . . It Is an oft repeated argument, in everv farm journal that more atten tion should If given to the garden; that fully two-thirds or tlio living ior can be produivd from a good garden. and that With thoronehly rl.-h soil. good seed, a well planned rot.ition of garden crops and a medium amount of hard work a good wheel hoe will reduce tin's hist exix-nse a very snail area will produce a very largo a'mount Not only shcjiild the table lo suj). plied from spring to late fall, but large stocks of staples should be saved for winter use. Of eourre, every farmer stores' in his cellar po tatoes, turnips, pumpkins and other coarse crops, but there nr- many others equally good and almost as easily cured and kept which no longer contribute to the winter's table i.j.d have been supplanted by cheap canned goods, In the long nri enieu fcive and usually very inferior. Llmafor Drying ;Plck Them Creen. Take, for instance, lima beans. If these are picked and shei:.-d when green the eauie as though for imiuo rr-.N- "'"r-!k.''.' 4 i t dlate table use and then dried In thtf sun, they will constitute through the winter a delicious and wholesome dlun almost equal to the fresh bean. The same applies to green corn, which our grandfathers will tell us was a staple winter produce, also easily dried in the sun, buying been cut from gptp----- - .I f. I ,' V ''.!, . ( : !: ' ' ' - r ' ---' - y - J una '. Ml the tilled cob nf'roastlng ear" stnce And. among others, okra or gumbo makes equally ns good soup lu wlu tor ns when fresh lu summer. When It conies to canning and pre serving, there Is little real comparison between the homo canned proi'.uct and bought goods. It time is con sidered ns money canned tomatoes can bo bought probably cheaper than they can Ih grown and canned at home. Hut how shout the results? If the farmer's wife should go through the ordinary canning estab lishment she would probably conclude to do every speck of her own cun- nlng herenftr and avoid setting on her table sour green fruit, art lib lallv colored and sweetened with coal tar products. , With the supposed defeneration or the Individual farm garden, it Is In teresting to note that the professional market garden, as an Industry, has tremendously increased. The farm gardens, "market gar dens" and truck gardens" of today : the producers of u multitude of "miscellaneous vegetables" utmost Un known tifty yours ago. lu the census of 100 the large Increase In garden products was recognized, mil a sys tematic count of their bulk and val.io was made. It Is possible, therefore, to nmke n ten-year comparison of the Increase of such products, and this re cords the remarkable Increases from J'.H) ier cent to 4HO sr cent In the live several divisions of the country. Tit." 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