tooth; everybody has. We want sugar and we want sweet-meats; 

 why not grow it at home. 



"We have done something else. We have a region west of the 

 looth meridian of west longitude where it is dry. It rains around 

 ten inches a year. We looked over the whole world and found crops 

 around the deserts of the Old World and last year produced 60,- 

 000,000 bushels of wheat out there, the richest in protein grown in 

 America. The time is coming when the great city of New York 

 will be fed from wheat grown out on the desert; and you will not 

 know it, except that it is a little better wheat than that you have 

 had before. The miller will not admit that, because the wheat is 

 more difficult to grind. A few years ago we imported heavily of rice 

 from the Orient, and now we produce what is about the equivalent 

 of the consumption of the country. It is the same in all lines. The 

 Federal Government, through the wisdom of Congress, is getting this 

 work done. They never hesitate. I have never had a bit of fault 

 found with me for spending too much, but was roundly scolded in 

 the Senate of the United States for not asking for more money. The 

 only trouble with me is that I am too stingy. I am going to take the 

 hint and ask a little more the next time. We are at work ascertaining 

 how to grow crops on the arid lands where we cannot get water ; 

 and are having some measure of success. I cannot say much about 

 it, because we have only recently begun, but we have some thirteen 

 stations with three or four scientists located at each station, study- 

 ing what crops will do best under these dry conditions and what 

 method of cultivation will be best adapted. So that everything is 

 being done by the encouragement of Congress that can be done. 



"We have agricultural colleges in the State, most of which are 

 applying themselves to the great problems. I am satisfied that your 

 institution here your two institutions are doing decidedly better 

 work than they did when I first became acquainted with them. But 

 that is a matter between yourselves. I am speaking generally of the 

 soils. That is the source from which we get our foods. Ever since 

 the Civil War the balance of trade between us and foreign countries 

 for goods bought by us outside of farm goods has been heavily against 

 us; but the farm came in and paid off the bill and made a heavy! 

 balance in favor of the United States. Every year we are sending 

 less and less from the farm to foreign countries because of the demand 

 at home. That is what we are doing now. When the day comes, 

 if ever, I hope, we may be able by united effort all along the line 

 to prevent that day coming, but if the day comes when we are not 



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