A TALK WITH SEC ———————— 7 SO —————— GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL Secretary Wilson, as the official) Lead of the great family of American | farmers, views with some consider- thle satisfaction the abundant crops hich mve blessed almost every sec- tion of the country. “The harvests have been heavy,” he grid, “and the farmers will make more money than in an average year. | The prices on farm prodmets will be lower, but the crops will bring the farmers, nevertheless, more money. Living should be cheaper, too. The bay and grain crops have been enor- | wous—probably record breakers—and meat ag a result should be more plen- tiful and cheaper. 1 say it should be, fhe producer and consumer are so far apart, and so much goes on In between these two principals that it is diffienlt fo say Just to what extent production THE KITCHEN GARDEN, More Than Two Thirds of the Livirg of a Family Can Be Raised, If the farmer's wife could Induce her liege lord to contribute tae same care, patience and labor next spring to the kitchen garden which his | grandfather did during his day, there | would be perhaps a consideranle gain [in the household's economy as well as much satisfaction developed for the housewife. The old folks insist that 3 ! even with the greatly increased vary. “Yes, «things certainly look well, | at r and excellence In fruits and vege. generally; yet I belleve we are very iy 108 (ue to many plant generations near to a sort of agricultural crisis— | ‘ RETARY WILSON. send our hogs abroad and are eating more mutton, veal and beef” “The present condition and the fu- ture outiook for the American Larmer is a good one then, Mr. Secretary?” , | sidered the boiled cob at “roasting ear” stage. And, among others, oka or gumbo makes equally as goo soup lu win ter as when fresh In suminer, When it comes to canning anid pre- gerving, there is little real comparison between the bome canned product and bought goods, It time Is con as money, canned fomatoes can be bought probably cheaper than they can be grown and canned at home, But how about the results? | If the farmer's wife should go through the ordinary canning estab- Hshment she would probably conclude to do every speck of her own inl] hardly a crisis Jeriaps, but ap 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 ed his Imit. He is doing about all he ean do with his hands and with the most Improved labor-saving farm ma- chinery worked by good horses, This bad condition on the farm 1s going to affect production and prices, and that “XX ’ t ’ * a Western rl nH neat Scenes. | m—— 3 1 \ SECRETARY WILSON A | GROUNDS AT TIME OF COMMENCEM goods. | of selection and breeding by the {| men tnd the Kitchen is not so well 8 loss an average tended, i vart i whole 1s much inferloe | titution in the “good garden on planted or amd on the to the same old boy, BE ir is an oft repeated ar “n ery fai R-4 tt Mot tion should that fully two the farmer's can be produ } tho 1 io" rive ris n to Wf 4 thes ’ ND GROUP OF CHIEFS, days” when grandfather was a | terest LENT OF AGRICULTI EW BUILDING. hereafter and avold s« | sour green fruit, ar tal a d sweetened with DEPART ENT OF WORK ON N ning tt her colors products, Ww I" the ile ficially ’ ® ipposed degenerat! i] farm garden, it is In- that the profs onal 4 du ho n of individu ng ole { ot i ‘ 11 v re, | Ymiscelianeo ‘known fift) n d ritalin instances too muci assertion to the effect that I did know what I was talk ] ng abo de a pr ol oul) * cont el I ywuth, 3 Co-Operation in the St 4 ne oon wa o it Ni ET deal of i r i ectin etary in off : il el hy an to bring the cot- tho T r r plished ore ni 1 m ration down there r and msumet Ve than has been attempted with other of our great agricultural pr tions The cotton crop Is hig ar ,though not by any 1 breaker. The y 3 probably l have " 5 K ton produce ’ Ie a1 ny lace a { neans a grass an t $ record do C1 tie DIERt | crop 8 « importance of tn ird in time te whi i 3 : animais + Is wort value of the wheat crop. We will itedly export some very fine his vear—cholce corn fed hogs. 3 our greatest meat export A parter of a billion dollars would irdly cover our animals exported this r. I fancy, probably amounting to t ' 1 ! WAY DOWN ROU two-thirds of the value of the entir wheat crop of the country, No Longer Big Hog Eaters. “The American people are no longe hortle. Tt 1a impossible to say inst v effect will be, but a change The farmer must have la- with the prices of farm pro- : they are now, he can not meet a yy Your i 3 $ oH fact » » nds are gradually j-—the towns no } i Her Mr. Wilson Not a Theorlst, nld 1 Afr tary. to have Wi “SOME PUMPKIN y 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.” refer to i I's inted by ol Dp ‘ » long very inleri or . ’ goods he nd u Limas for Dry! Take, r n ig ng Pick Them Green tance, lima beans al fio owl : exe ) i if r low 100 v4 Here se, irs, wil v or a cent, Is awmazis When Tomatoes Were Believed Voisonous, | Could our great-grandd tomatoes poisonous, and grandmothers, who grew rnamental plants In window > ddies who ht n Haying ” o and Cattle Scenes. TH IN DIXIE LAND, “No, I can not do anything with these | hypothetical cases of higher farm edu. cation.” | “Well. then, what shoula a man do | with the manure which accumulates on hig farm?” ¢ r “He should put It on his land.” re phed the Secretary, now thoroughly at wme: he should take It out on the land at once and not let it accumulate; haul it out and spread it on as fast as it is made. The ground will get the good of it" “Won't the ammonia evaporate the fertility be lost to the soll?” “No, It has been demonstrated by enareful 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 he | fore It Is available for plant food, The ammonia bacteria attack It first; it In then converted hy other bacterin Into nitrites, and, lastly, by still other bae- and - fimost equal to the fresh TO FIX THE PRICE, torin, into nitrate, when the roots of staple winter the plant can then take It up as food. | dried In the sun, produce, Ro fo gee we A — an —— | iy - thirty million "ushels of noecord- onder. 1 changos, | i | | | | | the | won'd surely realise ~ WILLIAM BROS., Ithaca, N. Y. 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