1 6 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION January 



That the country realizes this, and kuk to Vicksburg and learned that 



has supported the Government in its for the first time in our history a Pres- 



provisions for the future of the people, ident had completely grasped all the 



shows conclusively that the old ways immense significance of the internal 



of haste and waste are fast being dis-. waterways of the Union when they 



carded. are developed as they should be, and 



The swamps of the United States, set himself the mighty task of getting 



mainly in the South, cover an area that project going actively while in 



as large as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio office. That is another business prop- 



a vast sheet of stagnant water and osition. 

 coarse rushes. All this land is now 



useless, or practically so. If drained, A Third There is a form of re- 



the soil is fabulously rich ; and what in ? ^ clamation that is not ap- 



t, J r Reclamation r , *", 



now is waste, a home for mosquitoes, plied to new land, 



and a haunt for creeping things, may whether arid or swamp. Land which 



be changed into agricultural districts has been worn out by bad methods of 



capable of supporting 16,000,000 peo- cultivation and abandoned as useless 



pie, with one family on each twenty can be reclaimed by the introduction 



acres. The engineering difficulties of wise methods of cultivation. Large 



are not greater than others already areas of land in the Southern States 



mastered. have been abandoned because they 



were cultivated so long in one crop, 



Practical The Buffalo News usual L v cotton, that they became un- 

 and Useful spea k s admiringly of productive. The Office of Farm Man- 

 statesmanship President Roo y vdt > s agement of the Department of Agri- 

 practical statesmanship: culture is doing a most interesting and 

 "For the first time in the history of valuable work in teaching farmers, 

 the United States a President repre- wh ? nave lon . been used to putting all 

 sents the American idea of peace, in- their efforts into one crop, to diversify, 

 dustry and production in the fullest an ^ thereby get better returns and in- 

 sense. While inferior to no predeces- crease the fertility of their land. This 

 sor in martial spirit, Mr. Roosevelt increase in fertility is as good as a 

 has the good fortune to be the great- lar & e increase in the amount of land 

 est soldier of industry the world ever available. 



saw. Is the West for Roosevelt, be- ' 1A '- le annual report of the Board of 

 cause he has lived in the West, and Agriculture in Jamaica describes sim- 

 wrote the story of its winning, and * lar efforts in that island. Many 

 shares the superb Western spirit? farmers there have been induced to 

 Only in part is that the explanation. bu Y Iive stock in order to have the 

 The watchwords of Roosevelt men in manure to apply to the soil. Live 

 the West to-day are Irrigation and stock is generally an important ele- 

 Forest Preservation. And both ir- nient in the cropping plans recom- 

 rigation and forestry are business mended by the Office of Farm Man- 

 propositions of the first rank in the agement. 

 United States. 



'At heart the South is for Roose- A Municipal A municipal cement 



Why? In addition to lesser pgjjf 1 plant of the capacity of 



the South knows that he is the 1,000 barrels per day is 



man who is making the dirt fly oh the proposed for making the cement re- 



thmus as it never flew before and is quired for the construction of the Los 



thus opening the Pacific to the com- Angeles aqueduct and accompanying 



mercial conquest of the South It works. 



recently all the The plant will be located at Teha- 



M 1S sissi Ppl from Keo- chapi, Cal., and so far as we know, 



