12 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



We are sending explorers to the ends of the earth for new plants — . 

 and getting them. 



The phosphates are abundant in our country for all possible uses. 

 Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Idaho may be mentioned as 

 depositories. 



If good roads from the producer to the consumer were general, the 

 benefits to both would be considerable. 



"When a foreign insect invades, our scientists seek its enemy where 

 it came from. The natural enemy of the boll weevil was an ant that 

 could not endure our winters, but the native ant is getting busy. 



The experiment stations of the several States are doing better 

 ,work each succeeding year ; the scientists are maturing and the peo- 

 ,ple are appreciating. 



The object lesson in agriculture is the best teacher; we had 60.000 

 lof them at work last year. 



• - Six hundred thousand short tons of beet sugar were made last 

 'year in G7 factories. There is an estimated world's shortage of 

 1,600,000 long tons of sugar this year. 



The consumer pays a dollar for food; the farmer gets less than 

 .fifty cents for it. Who gets the rest ? 



All Government agencies that conserve public health should be 

 grouped together in one bureau. 



The Department of Agriculture has had success in the Southern 

 States through object lessons in the fields, where the best southern 

 farmers in their counties were the instructors. This method should 

 be organized in all the States along lines of greatest necessity. 



Our systems of renting land are faulty and result in soil robbing; 

 where the renter can not provide domestic animals, the owner 

 should arrange to furnish them so that rotation of crops ma}'' be had, 

 and hay and grains may be fed on the farm. 



Irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is new and 

 full of plant food ; but, where the crops are sold year by year, irri- 

 gation will not of itself assure good results. 



Alaska will some day provide farmers in lower latitudes with 

 grain seeds superior to what they can grow at home. 



The corn crop is moving northward by seed selection. 



The southern farm boy is showing the way to grow more of all 

 crops on an acre. 



Educate the farmer's boy toward a more valuable life on the farm. 



Uplift the farm home through the education of the farmer's 

 daughter toward greater usefulness and attractiveness in the farm 

 home. 



