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N YEARS ARE N US," SAYS J. J. HILL re n.illions of men idle? s our food cost so much 1 e our cies thronged with -stricken human beings? s J. Hill, master railroad der V.d adviser to the American er, has given -what he believes the right answer to these tions in a 10,000-word article in World's Work, issued to-day by Doubleday-Page Co. The At Journal has obtained special. ission to give excerpts from articek.-Editor of the Journal. By Jam J. L iU e food -eondition presses upon uas now. A sbortage has begun. As far as our food supply is con cerned right now The lean years are upon us. We have to provide for a conCn gency not distant from us but al Teady present. Thousands of farmers are seeking homes in the Canadian northwes., owing Ito cheap lands offered there and the difficulty of securing sueL ands in the United States. Yet we still retaiin the land laws -ander which, for so many years the great heritage of the people has been; passing so largely into unworthy Instead of preserving the fertilitY of their lInds, our farmers have gone ijn seareh of new soils, to be skinnedi robbed and abandoned as soOn as the old shows signs of exhaustion. Not th;t there is no longer any west to move on to, what have they left behindt Since 1899 the average wheat crop in the Unied States has fallen from 15.8 to 14 bushels an acre. It is a dis graceful record. The fields of Great Britian yield aver 32 bushels of. wheat per acre. Germany produces 27.6 bushels per Dr. Samuel Johnson said of Eng land: 'Trade and manufacture, however profitable, must yield to the lands in usefulness and dignity." dR Dr. Johnson could revisit his 4ountry today he would find his ar gment vindicated by an alightment of industries so uneven that busiess in the streets of her cities is imped ed, by processions of gaunt men, shouting in wretched concert, "We want work!''" For many years the United States has made the mistake of unduly as sisting manufacture, commerce and oher activities that center in the cities at the expense of the farm. We must preserve jealously the right and possibility of free access to the soil. This is- the safeguard not only of na tional character. fFor the sake of the coming mil lions, who will be helpless unless eah can be furnished with a piece oft, Stillable land, we should see that the pecuative abuses whieh these land laws of ours hav~e fostered are ought to an end. It is as well assured as any future event can be .that the population of, Ithe United States will be 200,000,000 by. about the middle of the present' century. Millions of persons now liv Sing will see the 200,000,000 persons here. How are -they to be fed? Suppose the average yearly per eapita consumption of wheat is six and one-half bushels. It will then re quire 1,300,000,000 bushels of wheat for our bread supply. Twice only in eur history have we exceeded 700r 000,000 bushels. Possible increase of wheat produe tion by inereasing acreage is limit ed. We have no longer a great area of free publie lands.-. We will be left practically wit~h a shortage of 400,000,000 bushels. A supply to meet the coming new de mand is nowhere in sight. I have said many times in different articles and addresses that a priee of over rath er than under $1 per- bushel -might be *expected hereafter. Suppose the -United. States pr,o duced 28 bushels per acre, or double its present showing. That would be not?hing extraordinary in view of what. European -countries have done with inferior soils. It would have ad ded 634,000,000 bushels to our pro duet last year. Such close and careful cultivation as will yield the highest profit per acre can best be given to land when it is cultivated in small farms. Ten farmers, each cultivating from 40 to 160 acres, with the most approved methods, each can earn a profit equal to that taken from two or three times the same area by slovenly tillage. To raise t1e productivity of our sil 50 per cent. would be an increase greater in value than The entire vol ume of our foreign trade. These results can be brought about by such instructions as we now give iinour technical schools and institutes fr the trades. We manot wait for the work of the agricaltural colleges, because the emergency is one for the present gen eration. If I could have my- way I should build a couple of warships less a year. I would take that $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 a year and start at least 1,000 agricultural schools in the United States at $5,000 a year each, in the shape of model farms. . It would require a small amount of land, all told, to place a model farm in every agricultural county in the United States. There would be a trained man to each farm, say of 80 acres; and a general superintendent, a thoroughly trained agriculturist, lo manage three or four counties and visit the different farms. All sueh farms might be put under the general supervision of the agricultural college in that state. If any farmer was in doubt he could visit it, see with his own eyes and -ind out what he ought to have done and what he could do the next time. To direct the minds of the young to work upon the land as an honor able and desirable career, and to prepare them for work when they return there by suitable instruction, is to promote good citizenship and national security. The farmer must eultivate no more land than he can till thoroughly. With less labor he gets more results. Offial statistics show that the net profit from one crop of 20 bushels of wheat to the acre is as great as that from two crops of 16 bushels to the acre. There must be rotation of :crops. Ten years of single cropping will pretty nearly wear out any but the richest soil. There must be soil renovation by fertilizing, and the best fertiEzer is manure. Every farmer can and should keep some cat,tle, sheep and hogs on his place. The farmer cannot prosper until stock raising becomes ' insepa rate from agriculture. If waste can be stopped, -it would save more money - for the farmer than the railr6ads could if they- eAf ried all his grain to market free of charge. Hill's Warning to Farmers. We have begun to realize only re -ently that farming is to a great ex tent an exact science.. The man no longer deserves the name of farmer who conceives of his industry as -a scratching of the garth, a hit-o '-miss scattering of seed an'd a harvesting of such yield as soil and we;tiher may permit. That's not farming, but a game of chance. SOur national supply of food is fundamental to the 'organization of or social life and t& The progress of our industries. VALUABLE LAND -For Sale. The Boyd place, con'taining One Hundred Xcres, Four Buildings, about three and a half miles from Newberry, front Ing on public road, Souther Railroad and C-N. & L Rail. road, fine location for brick plant, truck farm, tan yard, cot ton mill, &c. Terms easy. Moseley ros.. FRE E To thiose that wear gloss 01 Chinese work. We will Laun dry three collars free- to show what a difference there is in s a beautiful linen finish. All goods sterilized. Collars will not crack. Suits steam-cleanec $1.00. HITE STAR LAUDRI AND DYE WORK[S. 'Phone 175. YOU NG & STEBBINS. 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See our line of Holiday South Carolina. ronting ments, with interest from the day -of sepa- sale at eight per cent., payable an L Bur- nually, withi leave to anticipate pay 1 Capt. ments in whole or in part; the note ime of and mortgage to contain a stipu-lation requiring ten per cent. attorney's ;er will ,fees, if placed in the thands of an at of the torney for collecition. Purehaser to alance fpay for papers and recording. rtgage j J. P. Wheeler,