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AMERICAN “HOMES VAN 
Investigation 
of Piano Tone 
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gation of Piano Tone. 
would gladly welcome such investigation, with only the foremost author- 
The creators of 
ities on tone—artists and men of science—to give expert testimony. 
The most critical tests would frove, beyond 
EVERETT fone, a distinctive KVERETT quality, is not equalled in 
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$500to $1,000 according to style. Grands, from $700 to $1,500 and beyond to 
any amount you may desire to pay for special design in art case. 
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Owners of the Everett Piano Company, Boston 
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cavil, that the 
GARDENS June, 1906 
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURE 
HE comforting assurance is made by the 
Secretary of Agriculture that Ameri- 
ca may fear no more crop failures. 
The suggestion—it perhaps would be unfair 
to the Secretary to designate his statement as 
a speculation—is an interesting one. It is 
based, of course, upon the enormous strides 
made in scientific agriculture and in the appli- 
cation of scientific ideas and methods to farm- 
ing. ‘The Secretary does not hesitate to call 
farming a science, yet it is but the simple truth 
to point out that the farmer as a class, and 
hardly as an individual, is not yet reckoned as 
a scientist, nor does he in any way illustrate 
or interpret the scientific thought of the day. 
While this is true enough, the further fact 
that farming has, in the last few years, made 
enormous advances in scientific applications 
should be grouped with it. The materials for 
scientific farming are now at hand, ready for 
use and available for every one willing to take 
advantage of the latest ideas and able to apply 
them. It is something to have the means for 
scientific farming, even if its applications are 
still far from universal. It is not Secretary 
Wilson’s fault if every American farmer is 
not conducting his work in a scientific way. 
He has brought his Department to an ex- 
traordinary degree of scientific excellence and 
he has made his abundant material accessible 
to every one who asks for it. 
And now, looking into the future, he utters 
a word of good cheer in telling the Ameri- 
can people that their farmers need never let 
them starve and that it is likely they will al- 
ways have foodstuffs for exports. But he 
wisely points out that this is not due to any 
special piece of good luck but to the more 
noteworthy fact that scientific farming makes 
this desirable condition possible. Nor does 
he pretend that unexpected circumstances may 
jot affect the fortunate condition of affairs 
he so brilliantly sketches. Nature is still, in 
many ways, uncontrolled by man, and hence 
the unforeseen may always happen. But given 
the usual state of things, and the Secretary 
stands by his remarks. 
It will be worth while to quote Mr. Wil- 
son’s own words in this connection. ‘There 
have been material improvements in agricul- 
ture during the present decade; important im- 
provements have been made in agricultural 
machinery, which are of great advantage to 
the farmers. The Department of Agriculture 
has by experiments demonstrated what it is 
possible to do in preparing for climate fluctua- 
tions in heat and moisture. It is not only pos- 
sible, but it is practical and is the general rule 
nowadays for the farmer to study the soil he 
has to work, and intelligently select the crops 
best adapted. The farmers now make it 
their business to know what their lands will 
do, and they utilize them to the best advan- 
tage. In 1910 the production per acre will 
be twice as great as it was in 1900. This in- 
cease will be due entirely to the advance which 
the farmers are making in the direction of 
selection of methods. 
“When I say there will be no more crop 
failures, I do not mean that every seed each 
farmer plants will thrive and produce. We 
may, however, safely count upon sufficient 
crops to supply our own needs, and leave a 
surplus for export. A flood may visit some 
valley and acres of growing crops may be 
washed away. Grasshoppers may and prob- 
ably will again appear in Kansas. Hot winds 
will blow, but we will not hear so much of the 
grasshoppers and the hot winds in the future. 
