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News and Observer. SUNDAY MORN'IXG, MAY 5T 1W7. ' ' ' ' ' : . ' The Land the Basis of Wealth. r ' (Copyright, 1908. by It. F. Beasley.) i Theyr have-all sorts of time in the Holy. jLnd. --They -ala have nearly, all sorta off-religion. The method of nreckonlng time depends upon one' re ligion, v The Catholli 'a - and Protest ants follow the - Gregorian calendar, the Greeks and Arm Mans follow the Julian, and ' the 'Copts the Egyptian The Copts have. thlrt sen months in a year, twelve i months of thirty days each and . one month of five days. The Moslems and Jews have a lunar Uat.:..:.:.:. A. M STCK. to gather statistics In regard to the results of missionary labors anions the Moslems in Palestine. His inves tigations covered 'a period of fifty years. The cost . of the work amon all classes was! found to $55,000 a year, or $2,750,000 for the nfty years. I The net result accomplished among 1 Moslems was the conversion of on! Mohammedan, and he was anlimbv-, die. it Is casting pearls before swine (Continued from Page Two.) tural conditions since the Civil war. a lunar; n v. n ,.v. years. The ; Moslem year has- twelve! ... ...... ... . months of twenty-nlnfc and thirty days ; m "l"f V?"r nea c V .?e sitprnioiv or, ?, .L,--,-. in hi.h made among the Jews. Amid all th- -,-. .i 2 (Changes in goveri month falls -varies every year. De cember sometimes falls in the summer and 'July in the dead) of winter. The Jewish year has; twelve months, but five times in every seventeen years it has j thirteen. mOnthJ Every year In Palestine there- are - four Christmase and. eight new- -years.' .-The" Protes tants and Catholics observe the same Christians mistreat him ' simply be- jdays; thirteen days later the Greeks have theirs., while the Armenians have wiT."1 Lnt?"?aT. i .a Jew. Over In Bethlehem r..t. ' ;v " r. . . , : i wnich is strictly a Christian city, a .h. B T"s I , .ns .L .y Jew not -allowed to reside or evert RUhi -"i'" : the Cljr,a- Upend the .night. ' He may works in m lions Sunday.- Therol are manv other ; T.. .-.. t. 1. .... , ... i, : e v. changes in government., population and religions, the Jew has remained true to his ancient faith, a Jew In Palestine is on his-lown soil and Is especially strong in the faith RHt glous zeal has kept him here or has brought him back. He is impervious to precept or example.. He is a stick er "from away back." He will con tinue to stick, so long as he is perse cuted as he is now. Even certain nselnsh spirits are constantly praying hem. On another part of Olivet is another bunch of fitters who devote their time to some sort of religious antics. One of these died a few davx since and I attended the funeral. The services On the new lands-of the West, wherw were conducted by her surviving sis-,nce the wheat yield was from 2 to ters, and among other rare perform- 30 bushels per acre, it is now from ances the bulk of the' congregation 12 to 18. Frankly, and without shame kissed the deceased. To say the least this is attributed to the wearing out' of It. that was very unsanitary. ' of ,ne soU- a ,f the earth were a gar On the outside of the north wall ment that ut be destroyed by the of the city is a convent in which wearing. It the earth, the mother of thirty-eight French ladies live, known humanity. Is to "wear out" what i to as "Sisters of Reparation." They are become of the race? Th- fact is thav all very wealthy. In fact, no one can'0,l. properly treated, maintain their join unless she has a certain amount' Jm VPn.T ln?Kflnlt,.". u?j? CU?: of property. They go dressed as "v at ,on The further 'acl lthat. with brides, wearing light blue dresses with , disappearance of Pestilence ana lone blue rihhon Thev too are tne discontinuance of war that belong ayingTor By turns they engage in prayer and "" Zul! r .l "l v' ,u . 0MI "3 fZfT - TT festal day.;, and something religious is going spn-. pretty much all the time. The religious situation in this country ;-, Is unique: No other " land on the gtobo can furnish a " parrallel. 1 have :of ten: wondered why it was .j. necessary "to- send? missionaries to the land which -first, sent out missionaries to' phristiatiixe the world. I have heard others -express surprise that the : birthplace ,7 of Christianity, where its great Founder preached and worked miracles. Should itself become a field for missionary work j The reason may not be so obvious to people in far . my AiiKsrivo, , uui. o owrvanun auu a s llttld" Investigation c n . the spot will . .'make 'it" all clear. . Sfnce Christ preac' led a religion of for his chosen people many wonderful ' changes hayo taken i dhce changes in the government of die country, in rits conditions. Jts population .and its re ligion. Christianity n-as supplanted by - Mohammedanism, wlilcji was planted . .in 'the Holy .lahd bj force and arms. Today it is the predominant religion rot the country Thr ee-fourths of the topulation. -Including the ruling classes -are Mohammedans. Obstacles to Replanliu; Christianity It Is well known t tat the results, of missionary borers in the Holy Land. particularly in the old provinces of Gal ilee, Samaria! and ludea, have not altogether "met , exi editions. There :, has been some degr e . of sss, but nothing like that ir othf ountrles. JBut It is no fault of 'the laborers. The - explanation Is found in, the. parable of the sower, The sed 'have fallen" In soil v -already ; grown ip In -weeds. To adopt ah expression used fn business matters theye ja not ta good opening" for any -more rellgio Everybody al- ready ha religion. There Is more.nv jllglon to the square Inch In this couny- try4 than fn any other; land , '.in the world. , Thj quality; Is rather inferior but the quantity is enormous. -.-In our rountry vtery- large per.ycent of the people make no pretensions to any re-4 ug1on;Whatever,butj over ,here every f . body is a professor of some kind". The first work of the missionary,, therefore, - Is tot convinceJ the Jot her T fellow that he Is" wrong f, andc fshoula?make a ' change.:: -Nine-tenths of the people ar very - Ignorant jand jBuperstitions and, -.-l consequently. : full of . prejudice. No ; prejudice Is 'half hwj stubborn as re ligious preiudlc.-r Argument only Jn tensities It. Fanaticism . and -bigotry ... knows not bounds. iThe Moslems be - lieve -that they -alope:- have .a , cinch on those ? mansions; in. the tskie. Their religion Itself was the.'. product - of ' From their Infancy! they are taught to despise. Christialii. i The Koran ln culcaterf the earnest Itlng, and the Ko ran is a text book In (the public schools. When : x9&- -wr ;inf Hebron, we passed a school room onthf side of the street. Some of our party peeped In at a win dow to see- an f Arab! school in session. A -small girl . ran td the window and spat In the, faces oft two of the- party. A smile of . satlsfa rtion played -over her face, -fori sue h.t -eatment of Chris - ttans - is i consider ed ' ,; praiseworthy.1 - ' the 1 teachef.: did "noL- even -reprimand '..her. :Tt:Jt- Some , time si ce our. conaut at Je rusalem .in, compah y. with . an exM3ov ernor .of ah yAmen can State; wistt"d the - same cltysime i Moslems bos raised his .umbrglls sfor -protection. ; .The little fanatical rascals -.filled- the umbrella full of rt oles.. So Xeep -i is this Xeelingi that: I a -Moslem cut and embraces onie other( religion. hV Is ostracised by:" A ohammedana and, even . his -kinspeopl A will t have i nf a "more .to do .with h m.. This pressure holds .him: in line - no Imatter how much he mleht pr fer Christianity. x An Englishv bih4p once undertook one Is at the altar all th eisters are not dead and buried, but come out on the streets and allow sinners to gaze at their pretty bridal ra'merjt. Down at Latrone. the home of the penitent thief on the cross, are some people known as Trapplsts. They never speak to outsiders, and do not even speak to each other except to convey the cheerful Information "Re member ytu must die." There is one member of the society drrjwed u-nllke the others. who Is the medium through which communications and transactions are conuueted with the outside world. Talkirig to each other Is considered a worldly- amusement . . . 1 I n. . .111 M I an'i lormuut'ii. i ney are micrs oi the soil, make good crops, run a dairy, make tine chee?e and are making money. (It pays sometimes not to talk too much). In the Plain of Uephaint. near Jeru salem, is the "German Colony of the Temple," a sect rounded upon the principle that the mission of -Christianity is to embody the kingdom ol God on earth, believing that a really Christian social life is impossible, on the basis of the current Ideas of the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, etc. is . t . . . . i r . . u. . v i l r . propnecufl. Their original purpose to sleep there. Suclr treatment- Is hot calculated to cause Jews-to fall over each other in embracing Christianity. In Jerusalem he Is idenTe.d the right and privileges accorded to others, and often without any r edress. But the Jews are pretty shifty fellows an-1 some of those In Jerusalem have dis covered a novel and effective plan ror securing protection In their right-. They have Americanized themselves g,,. rc,gious and social conduct twa now enjoy ine pruitTiiun "I wur t government. There are men In Je rusalem w no can no i, speaK a wru -or tn htlli,i-llni in th i,,nri nf Prnm. VjSh,alr ZfilZ- tu'llt' an idcHl Christian community, and SSi8 t f nrStXtfn!'froni 11 to gln the regeneration of 5U?J.n Am-i tH? lhe church and the social life of Eu- trtSi .'r u' 'P- There are branches of the rt,i J Wri wh T?lt J f h" "Temple" at Haifa nd Jaffs. and they ra?.ern Tlt lre making money right a ong. If .T,""s Y;""rATJ,t,": ' repute is1 worthy of credft. their re Ar theippIlcinfo;K ?1 ker t UP Wth the,r ship, and the American agent finds a " . V . - - Jew ore? ther Klling th description Pwn at Marsaba. near the Dead f the Jew over.here The American a: ar s?me ixlVazy monk?fc known broker has him visit the State De- ??Anci,0Iltir"-K They occupy the con n1.iMant of wnhtnrtnn rrt a vent of MarKaba and. amid the gloom n9nnr( to travel in Trkev' rivine th wilderness, live on vegetables v.. r,t ih mmilnf nvr liere an t clear conscience. So woman For nearly; fifty years S. S. has ij3een:; before : the people, rl;; in that thousands upon thousands have tested iU' virtues and" know,' that no Lother medicin satisfactorily cleanses the blood of all' jnipurities, t humors or poisons,' or is so adapted to the entire system as a general; tonici;; -v- The maioritv of human ailments are caused by impure or Impoverished blood. ' K part of the body is dependent on this vital nuia iornounsnment una strengtn. . me First? ' cles, nerves, bones, sinews, skin and other portions of the system are sustained and e::: the carVyin- awav of tne to pert orm their ditterent duties because they ;are,suppnea wiin;nuirinient ana ner. . na ec- T properties tnroucrn ine circuiauon. vv ncn, uuwcxr,mc:, uuu v- auucu unu e time. These "77 :. .. i' ' -"f'0 . fer want. Sutaaliiln IMmw of tin' Soil. The life sustaining power of -ttu soli is lowered in" two ways: ear in to tne sea: a orid. chemically, by the withd the elements required for plant life. I impure The waste from the former cause is irnnairfr1 very great. It accounts for sterility in lliipircu the older, which are also the more hilly portions of the cultivated coun try. It may easily be checked or pre vented. The agriculture of Japan, which is one of the highest type, pre serves a mountain farm intact by ter racing and careful modulation of its level. Prof. iShaler says that a field lying at an angle of csn be totally destroy Diooa ine system is aepnvea oi -mis sircngvu u.iscc-md vuiic y- condition of health 4 is the result. i v ; ; , ' , ' Comine in contact with contagious diseases is a trequent cause tor tne pouutinrj c blood: we also breathe the eerms,and microbes of lalaria, and like diseases into our sy and when these get into the blood in suffiderit;quanti instead of health. Then follow suchsymp- fcoms as anaemia, boils, sores and ulcers, and Hnt ? 1 ron)115 with ! LVt?-" KeTf often chills and fever and a badly weakened abrasion of the kin an ngiy ore eraw- nice- nlnulnn Thrnnrhnnt t Vi o unnth rlita nifl A i crvrA rA rrn A i t I-wn rf V) fVl ffVrTI " fl ' .' OOIZie and. eiVO B9 SO end Of trouble. IInO"Wl priKpsx of denudation has proceeded" , t j e . L-J. ..A ---reputaUon of -S. 8. S.-I decided to nss it. "w fast and is going forward rapidly. He Sluggish, inactive Condition 01 the System aua . Withmost graUfying result. It purified my II: estimates from personal observation . tnrnirl :tnf nf trie avetlliei of hodilv waste I hare notteea troubled since. ' Ever sincd that In the State of Kentucky, which , JrP1Q State Ol tne avenues OI DOQliy waste v s s my heaUh baa1j0ea good and i re-c-r has not been largely cultivated for , leaves the waste and refuse matter to SOUr and at a flne blood purifier aad tonio. - nSniil form acids and humors 'which are absorbed ; victoria. T.xa. ... L, qnAa a-LEUsc::: nhofbVrT : ' ; . J . v , industry and care. j or ltcninc annovmc: SKin aisease is tne.resuiuv mere is no ucucr iuuca w lxic uicv, the blood than the skiu. Muddy, sallow complexions, eruptions, pimpies, etc., suuv. u;. The passport is Issued and then malS"- to the artolieant over here. Arm- led with his credentials' of an Ameri can citizen, he appeals to the Ameri can consul whenever his rights , ot person or property are Invaded. Ou consul has only to remind the "wrongr doer of , Mr. -Roosevelt's Blg Stick. and that Jew is no further molested. Of course these i fictitious Amen- Is allowed to enter the convent. They are supported by donations and spend th?fr tlm- In feeding the wild birds of the country. The monastery of Marsaba Is a lo used as a, rellglou penitentiary for refractory priests of the Greek church. In the same neighborhood are many monks who live in caves, in the hillsides .far re-. moved from the temptations off " the rang love Amerlcaj but American mis-, world. They live on roots.: herbs and sionariea cannot 'persuade them tt. solitude. There are hundreds "of love Christ. The. Jews, .like the Mos- these religious cranks who greatly dls lems, are also held : to their faith b credit the religion which they pro fear of ostracism by their, own peo- fess. About thirty-nine on their pie. If one embraces the Christian naked backs would ' probably cause religion no Jew will have anything to them to get out and let -their 'lights do with hlnvi will not associate , with- shine before men. . htm. nor give him any -"work.. With ' There is also a branch of . the only suchv material to work. on. our Seventh Day Adventists here. who people should not expect too much t" have a water cure establishment; They missionaries tn thejf Holy land. . But . preach reform In food. In dress and bad material Is not the only hindrance lit the constant fitting1 of the body, for to' the, spread off Christianity . in the its final resurrection. .. They, live on larvd of Its origin. The lives and c-n- charcoal, t rackets and nut butter. Be duct; of ma nysoCaIled Christians are sides the cranks above enumerated, potent vfacttira. : l ' . , there are others "too tedious to men- - ' : "-'-Vr Cranks-' ' j tlon." The i pure artlelel i of Christianity I-analcH and Fighter, greatly handicapped by religious Probably the greatest obstacle to the cranks and fanatics. This Is especia spread of Protestant Christianity in ly true' In and around Jerusalem. The . Palestine is the fanaticism and bigo holy, city is the metropolis of cranks try or certain Christian ' sects. So and. the storm center of fanatielsr. many different kinds of sects have pro No place on earth has such a variety duced rivalries, jealousie hatreds, of cranks. To begin wih. there are disputes, accrimony and often I'iio three men. in Jerusalem claiming to lence. The Scribes and Pharisees h be the Christ, one Is an Austrian, ono have left a numerous progeny. Cer- a German, and the other an Engnsn- u la ,nat there Ja nothing In their man. One syles himself Prince Eman- iiVes and behavior calculated to pop- uel. I have seen ! one of these seK- uiarljte their Christianity. The rival styled Saviours, and he is a Aijaisy - 8ecta have degenerated Into mere fac- a red-headed daisy at that. - Like most tions and their partisan xeal produces of the religious cranks, he wears hi frequent clashes. The Church of ,the nair very long. cviuenny iy u- Nativity at Bethlehem., belongs to the 2 lleve J that ; there ; is;, some connection between hair and holiness. 1 There la another lerratl . brother, tvhq- claims to be -John the Baptist. He is a Russian - and - takes Mmse'r , quite seriously. Latins, Greeks and Armenians.-- Dis putes over the exact line of division between them sometimes arise; when the different sects worship at the same time one may happen to cross the line But the men are not permitted to ... ma .. . ,,,. monopolize all that Is rare in religion. match to a ke of powder. A biz seventeen, Carmelite slstertf who are j . . i t . iranM I M fight ensues and. alt hands take part. in comparison with one of these re- through the ceremony .of, -m"Jre, cake wa,k or churcn fetival is a tame they .were put into their coffins .the aafr,r, Theso bgerent brethren burial ceremony conducted over them. K..itu. ' kI f"d "jfn thP:rthi -Pot where" the pVfnee of PeacV was the veil. t They; were married to the w, church and " are .'dead to-' the world They - will never: again see the face of born. Only a few years back a man was killed In one of the battles in the a human being exceptthemselves The very cave where Ahrist wasJ born The one who conveys to them their food cannot -see them.! Their closest kin people will "never aee them again In this world.', .These good sisters spend their' time in praying for. the world. There are lot of : old ' sinner "who are. ignorant of the fact that '.these t -. i i . ' . n. if-. --- j-:. 7-4 - Dissolve readily through the action of HARRIS LitliiauWater relieviho; the sufferer from the merci less passage of 'stone in the bladder". and from uric acid poison manifested as rheumatism of the muscles and joints. HARRIS lAthia is a superior natural . hthia water so known to the medical fraternity in all: cases of kidney I and bladder .trouble, and from years of trial and the hundreds of gratuitous recom mendations it receives, it has .become thoroughly established as a Hthia water abso lutely peerless in its especial sphere. ' ! . jSa d by r ail druggists and dealers gen ' erally or sent direct from Spring; S i gals. $3.00. $1,50 allowed for return . or package, : . , , Harris Lithia Springs Co. , l'y Harris Springs, S. C. ; y : Hotel Open June 15 r , '11 L tfTTfi7-r-7- week before ! visited Bethlehem the Greeks and Catholics had it fight In the same place. After the smoke of battle cleared away, it was found that s two were seriously hurt, and seven ready for the hospital. i The Church of the Holy Kepulchre ' In Jerusalem, belongs to the Greeks, Latins Armenians and Copts. It has . various chapels in which the varioui sects worship. Almost every year It is the scene of a pitched battl. About three months ago a Turkish soldier on duty had an "eye put out - in one of these ecclesiastical collisions. This fight started because the Catho lics swept some trash off their stepson the floor of the Greeks and then be gan sweeping the floor. The Greeks construed this as setting up a -claim to their floor. The animosity of the partisans 1 already a,t fever heat and the most trivial circumstance will precipitate- a row. The-brethren are-at all times ready to back their faith i , . . . "And prove their doctrine orthodox. By apostolic blows and knocks. " j . - ' . Turkey keeps soldiers always on hand to prevent these Christians from murdering or mutilating each other. Butnhe Sultan, afraid, of a religious wr, win not anow jine -sotaiers to -use their' arms in quelling-these rows. The priests know this and ask the soldiers -no odds. It Is but just to. the Catho lies to say that they are not the ag gressors in these difficulties. On the first of May every year the Greeks give these soldiers a picnic. .The soldiers usually, if not always. lde with the Greeks In the general melee The .policy of the Sultan is greatly to blame for these disgraceful dis- . turbances. If, instead of restraining his soldiers, he would erder them to use their, arms one good result would be- sure to ' follow iff they could not shoot the gospel Into these war-like brethren, they could at least shoot the devil out of them. -.' sour, acrid fluid which forces put its impurities throtigh the r and glands of the e I Sprincr is the season at hicH'a-blc:Wrifier'and'-t6nic is" most needed; The ncc i'undred and nfty lations in 'the system, caused by the indctive, shu't-iii. Winter life; must be reriiovc last year, records , ..-i ' 4.x.- XJi'A:. i A'i -44-4-.Tf Jfclf Ucllbcrate Soil ExliausUon. .... ..-I..-- I sai ana speeay s the process of deiio- blood is infected with uuhealthv humors which have changed t from a pure, fresh strcr.: eiate soil exnaustlon. New Kngland . , . , , . , r - r- . --- M.iji- ?u l.LAl2Au C4.'l,nr" once support eil ,a population of laitn- ers whose shot wa heard around the world. Prof. Carver, of Harvard, at- I ter u tour of five hi miles on-, horseback last his conclusion Independent ii maintain a community. ist in the hilly werpVodSr;noff S'aS 'a tired, worn-out feeHng changeable - v v vv- c j 1 1 va a ' 1 1 twenty-five bushels per acre upwards. Now an average of twelve to fifteen hj accepted as satisfactory. Under the fctresi of need, by Intelligent cultiva tion, many of the lands of Great Brit ain, cropped for a thousand years, are tion of the system, together with skih'affectipns and diseases in" different forms, so cc at this season, show that a blood purifier and . tonic js" needed. ; " . S. S. S. is Katures blood purifier'and tonlc. roots, herbs' and barks, and has lon.rjeen cEaial j v c i 9i aiu n. :; m - - mm . m - - -. made to bear thirty bushels to the and the GKEATi-ST Ut 'ALL.TUWiUa. It troes down into tne arcuianon ana remove ; acre. The rich. deeu soil of our oiiii . . . - . ?ii":? ' n;.'- 4 .! l.- it.'-.. ... tl.a-A country, drawn Upon for a few de- , DUt thoroughly, every particleof impuritVj hum6r oi. poison that may be there, rcclc: g- builds up the appctief and ' steadily; tones; up r the : its f::: energy effects cades. producembout twelve. The same ratio holds good of other cereals end of every product of the field. The sea Islands that once- grew the most famous cotton staple in the world -are virtually abandoned. -The people have nromotlv neglected the preservation off the soil. jr, They take away air and give back. - Thorough ; fertilization land nas no place in the gt on the American-- farrcu American agriculture' means traction from nature of the immeaiate return ai'tneiqwest possi- . t i;ce Me outlav of laboa r niev. with nh- l CloSS lime . disregard of --consequences. r Kx cept at scattered' experiment stations and In Isolated-instances -there Is lit-) tie done tn the United States towards j farm economics. Scientific adaptation of soil to product. Intelligent rotation . of crops, diversification of industry, in tensive farming constitute the rafre exception and not the rule. Only two States 1n the Union show an average .. o. o. o. neuiraiizes any excess oi aciu or uumunu mc uiuuu, A4. J "T- i - A 1 I ' 11 !? . .- i .3 mm. . 4-. i"t r. yva.ii pure, ana cures Jcvczenia, vene, a cticr auu sui ju ucrtic ciruu. c-uu-w-x- .i...- . . It adds to the blood the neb, healthful properties it is in need cf, and n nothing wav prepares tne system ior ine cnanee irom vymicr to ouxiuk g.u.g. ti-- of.vthe n-tnrA ' lCfiilo ' Qs-r' nr. A TTlri' arl nTisin rr from .en irr ntftl Work I waiaii-y ui-j -&-. & w -- o " Average f nnicntiMl mr-4 tinrlxr If .wnn Tiaw--iTi-T ir-'i-irlenr--! nf a Vweat. Tmrjoverisned. CO I: . the-.-'. ex-i - - - - . . ,J .m - n -.i i greatest the blood, or teel the need ot a tonic Dejnn tne use or o. cx wx; wicu is ,ior e-.s ... druer stores, and prepare your system for the depressing Summer months vri:; I fnllow. "RooTr on'the Hood md:ivtt'aietl'' advice' desirtd'.-Wurbe sent free to write. f: ' ; ;-"v :ji&s 'sz:;:r.:. , . . .. .... . t - . .- -;;-. al, exDcrt trade hair a billion dollars per annum, the country- rings with self-congratulation J and -we - demand the plaudits of the worlds If a. pro- total value of fafm products In excess cess for extracting ' metallic wealth of. $Jt per acre of Improved land. The from rocks were to be discovered .-to- figure for Illinois , In 100 was-J12.48; morrow, such as to assure the country for North Carolina. $10.72; for Mln- an added volume off ' & billion .dollars r.esbta. $8.74. By nroner cultivation in wealth every year. Ihe nation would L these returns could easily be doubled talk of nothing else. rYet these things and still leave the soil s resources un- would be but a trine wnen eomparea Impaired. The doubling of all pro- with the possibilities of agricultural ducts of the farm 'would add to the development in the United-'- States, wealth of this country from five to six The official estimated value i of all hllllon dollars every year, according farm products of the country ! last to the crop yield of the season and the year was , $6,415,000,000.- Discount rangp of market prices. Therefore, and this -for high prices and generally this Is the focal point of the whole1 favorable conditions - by per matter, the country Is approaching the cent, and over . $1,000,000,000 re Inevitable advent of a population ot mains. It rl also officially v re 150.000.000 or 300.000.000, within the corded that of the appropriated farm lifetime of those now grown to man's area, of the United States a .little Jena estate, with a potential food supply j J? ne-llf Is under . cultivatlon. that falls as 'the drafts upon It ad- I Utilise the other half j and. without vances. How are these people to be anv changewhatever In method -the I output would' be-pracUcally . doubled, ltealiw Our IH-pentlenco. I V1 methods rnly a little, not ttt Tho first to t,. in rMiiM onr d- high class intensive farmlng.-but to. -a Mttw a r a. ! I rln -i , -aR iruT-iav c ur'ii. ajjr iui i i miiun va HIV soil. To this end all that hati been agriculture as far advanced as that off those other countries which said thus far is c-ontrlbutory.. The , ItT IJ; H ...m . , . . . - without any addition whatever - to ihe Interest and Invention and hope upon ft.T tfV,hi2l that neglected occupation. We are , ilfSfL ItJ'ltLt 2' still clinging to th. skirts of a eUill- liffJSSJ ration born of gfeat cltlea We atrgXn of i5 ii, M7.tmnwen H.af whAJ! f operation elsewhere. , greatly to t..-f H'iHr,l?nSia '.nH r I Increase this minimum .present yield nlus has Bhiinned th? farm and ex. J $5.O004000.000 per annum of farm n"led IX tflill Products. That W we may add $10. ances and Commerce ajthe manU 000 Q00 000 .. op $15,000,000,000 every fold activities whose favorable eac' ycar to tne national wealth If we so tions filter back but JfiK choose.- And this Is but a beginning plot , of ground upon which stands, . . t . . ...,. iw)lidly the real master of himself and of his destiny. If we comprehend our problem aright, all this will change; and a larger comprehension- of agri culture as our main resource and our most dignified and independent occu pation.-will for the. future direct to Prospect Ho Froiulsln. , -It will be well In defense. of a pros pect so . promising, to glance - at the achievements -of ' other people .- upon whom necessity has already Imposed wisdom. It is perhaps, not as gener ally known as it should' be that Great their just aim. in the Improvement of j Britain, with a' soil and climate far methods and the increase of yield, tnei inferior to our i own for wheat. grow wisdom and the science and the will Ing labor of the millions who. thus may. transmit to .posterity an unim paired irfheritance. Unknown In the Vnltetl States. Agriculture in the mort Intelligent' meaning of -the term, is something! Inar: , nrodures . more than double the Quantity that we rifb per acre. The av erage for the United States for, 1899 was 13 $-10 bushej per acre. Tn 1904 it was It 6-10. w That - Is about the flgUrtj , for long series - of yearn. Mere than half a century ago it he av- almost unknown In the United States. fage yield In England v has - risen It goes to the root of disease, invig orates, strengthens, exhlleratcs. . Its llfe-prodctnt properties are not con tained In any other known remedy. Ifoltlstefa Rocky Mountain Tea. - Tea or Tablets, cents. - w. H. King Drug Co. J We have a light scratching of the soil the gathering of all that It can be made to yield by the most rapidly ef hausive methods. Except in isolated instances, on small tracts here and there, farmed by people sometimes re garded as cranks, and at some expert, -ment-stations, there is no attempt to deal with the soil scientifically, gen erously or even fairly. In manufac tures we have come to consider smalt economies so carefully, that the dif ference of a fraction of a centi the utilization of a by-product of - some thing formerly consigned tp the scrap heap, makes'the difference between a" proHt and bankruptcy. In farming we are satisfied with a small yield .at the expense of the mo3t rapid soli deterioration. We are satisfied with a national average annual product of $11. $8 per acre, at the cost of a dim inshtng annual return from the same fields, when we might Just, as well secure from two to three times that sum. Here Is a draft which we may draw upon the future and know, that it will not be dishonored. Here is the occupation in which the millions of the future may find, a happy and contented lot. Export Trade. When we have added to tha nation- above twenty-six bushels to the acre. In the lattef part of the eighteenth century it had reached almost Its low est estate In the-Unitcd Kingdom. v Men Who saw then-as we, see now. the par amount Importance of 4ts restoration, devoted themselves - to : Its advance ment. Arthur Younir made the com pletest study of local conditions ever attempted. Statesmen- were. Interest ed .and' men -of science enJlsted. - A board of agriculture was -created in 1793. - . Si-. Humphrey DavK deliverel before It in 1812 a aeries of remarka ble lectures on scientific -agriculture. Landed proprietors took, up. the. cry. Interest Was invoked everywhere. ."New theories were put into practice almost as rapidly as the fommonstwere er. closed, and - between - 1770-and 18- there was an immense rise in produc tion. In laborers' wages an. Id rentA Although agriculture In England ha suffered in-the last twenty-flTe yeais by the opening of new land tn Ameri ca and the cheapening of the. world a transportation. It has profited by further- advances In "knowledge. Today a yield of. thirty bushels of -wheat ter acre Is about the i average - for , tne country. In Minnesota, . with her fresh soli ana , unrivaiea proauct, an average r-of ; Great , Britain " applied ; to the average irt this country, that -now gives -us somhins over 4i0O.000.O0O bushels of .wheat-in a fain year, would Increase our- product to over 1,500. 00O.OQO bushels. v 7 v 5 . ! Three Ksscntialsi to grculture. . There are three " essentials to any agriculture-worthy ht the name. The flrst-'ls rotation of crops. -Our low average yield is due to the antiquat ed system aU too prevalent of raising the same crop indefinitely on the same land, until : it 'has- been -worn out or so reduced-that the owner Is in dan ger of ; poverty. Even i without f ertl lixers, the yield of -a given area may be immensely tcreased ami the pro ductive diversion preserved from ex haustion merely- by '-thev restorative variety - of change -which seems to be a law off all living things. V Some Inter esttng facts have been brought oat by the work -of the Minnesota State agri cultural school. -With only ordinary fertilization.- and -with such farm cul ture as could be applied -. to large areas, the average, yield of wheat on the plots under - experiment ffor- seven years was ,2 $.4 -bushels per acre; ot oats C7:Z bushels; of corn.' 42.8 bush els, and of . hay the average of five years was 3,91 tons' ter --acre. This was accomplished merely . by using a system of five-year rotation; the lana being r treated ; in thla v i order; - corn, wheat. : meadow pasture, oats. The figures - given - are nearly - double the average rylehf. from the farms of the State. -'There is. therefore, no exag geratloqi in. the .statement . that our farm production, could be made-twofold what it i by the mere application of more" careful methods without any Intensive cultivation whatever. If the lands off the. State were cultivated ac cording l..n cven-vear -stem of r.v tatlon. grain." grass. - pasture, grain, oats, grain without fertilizers, it is es timated on, good authority that the same amount of grain - would be gath ered during the four seasons in which it appears In : this regular order as is now.- obtained - from cropping' grain every year,That Is to say. the farmer would .obtain t the end' of 1. seven years. exactly the same - -amount of grain he now takes as the entire pro-, duct of his. fields;, while lnaddition he .would have the; whole amount of other crops . and . of stock . for : which the three seasons of vacation 'from grain growing would furnish opportunity.- He would.r..whlle. preserving the fertility of his acres and guarding, against soli deterioration, add .three sevenths to the.rolume of his material profits. Such .! the promise - of' tht slmnlesf - of,, all . Improvements -'in methods -.- - AgTicultnral Possibilities. This is btrt the beginning of acricul tural possibilities. Calling in the aid of -the -second ; method of increasins yield and preserving soil productively, which . Is a more liberal use of fer tilizing material, such as ' is possible where farms are off small size and cat tle are, kept, there Is : abundant evi dence of.the extraordinary results that may -be obtained. .Illustrations, may be found ' In -every part": of the country where Individual- small farmers have had the intelligence to put the s-stem Into enect A recent report of th? de partment of- acriculture cites the case of & farm In Pennsylvania which was so" exhausted as - to be imcanable - ot Prdduction. This -little-tract of fifteen acreV devoted strictly to dalrylngr, end treated- each year with every particle of -the- natural fertilizers thus obtained- produces a revenue- of about 13,- 000, or $200- per acre annually. There by a combination of ju '. , rotation, which ' admits a l diversification of farm in ' careful fertilizing, the 't??;.. doubled -money value for I). the "present farm area of V. States -would "be founvl i: mark. Uitmcasurctl Po-IV; v The third factor .In irr : better tillage. Is most Ir.t : : all t been use. it opens i k possibilities. We no m re is tne maximum io-a-rcAr of the earth or of any rr- '1 ; its surface than we do t ' which people; may l e nli ? a .century from now. iv.;t been done is sufficiently has been . seen that a i -45.000.000 people in J. -ported ' on 19,000 cultiv. : : miles, aided by the fu-- 7 r talned from the sea. -cultivation In Jaran- Is tru! that is, it Is no lor-cr developed farmir-. bu t r enlng. As we &rr' -c; t the actual creation i purposes, the sheltr r f ; frost and unfavorable c The treatment of pr: :. bles by separate j! rldual -nurture, all 1. earth's bounty ep-ear t : 1 From two ejJ even-t: the suburbs cf Tarii t: grown in a tincie t pounds f vegetable. A ener of Paris declare t food. -animal and v rt for the 3.5 00,(1 QO pej l? departments cl :M be jrn (hIh already In use, on f - miles of garden- Furrn :r Ttous, while life t a population of a; ;rt sons to. the square m',' on the product "f f r: alone, thi f;rjre ; v : culture., such as bee r . -profitable where r ru! . tremely dense. mi?ht t doubled. ParuiISc for .A-r!.-In one district f f i: population of "O.r " j 1 . its food from 37 0 ar: at the same time r! of beasts and rxi- -rt : - -farmers of the i ' no means a jar- ; turist, mar.-e to r' afrrictiltural prn tCSO from each i-.rc In Oerma-y t" thirty t acre. 11 s . Minnesota, m . r rather than t ' ' ; . Ti" A 1 " "From th T? comfilirient i-i t soil, from the ; r dependable 1 f. 1 a.-erted; with .f . future. It can L 2 ; erage of two rr. -, be surport? "" es" . land, by th" 1 - t ' - farming. rt d; necesar it 1 I people like th--' - f : is looked upon .with, complacency.. The average of fourteen . bushels per. acre J4s no secret in the process, Just as ther no ttneertarat-t .in the result. And net i Ft a r. ri - n or;--r 1 f t " ir. .. tr; c 6s v i n "X I com srui r. : y. 9? n i ' " i tO til? 5 - - ' " sior.ai:.- t: ' -. (.C.r.::
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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