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AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS FOR ALL.
The problem of reducing tbe cost of
living and of making rural life increasingly
attractive are engaging the interest
of theorists and promoters.
A writer in Leslie's suggests, as a
means of rendering rural enterprises
more Intensive and effective, that agri
cultural experts be liberally diffused
through our rural sections. He says:
"<I believe an agricultural expert for
every county would prove a valuable
asset to every wage earner and taxpayer
In the county. This expert should
be located in the county Beat at the
County Court House and equipped with
telephone and an automobile. His services
ought to be available at all times,
free of charge, to every farmer and
land owner In the county. Uke the
circuit rider In the primitive days, he
would soon become a historical and val
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country, visiting and studying out every
problem with each farmer. He would
soon teach the farmer the use and benefits
of science when applied with practical
experience. He would teach the
fanner how best to handle the drainage
question, how to analyze the soil, and
determine what it needs most, how to
develop and maintain fertility of the
soil, how to prepare the seed bed, retain
moisture, test the seed?and no
seed should ever be planted until it is
tested?cultivate the crops, harvest and
care for them. He would teach how to
build up and maintain good roads, care
for the orchard and live stock, build
buildings and fences, and do the work
upon the farm so as to eliminate waste
and conserve enerpy. He would teach
the farmer and his wife bow to cooperate
and -moke farm life so attractive
and profitable that It would closely
approach the Ideal. He would build up
a community Interest and help make
country life the social attraction that
would draw countless numbers to It"
CONSERVATION OF FOXESTS.
Luther Conant, Commissioner of Corporations,
In an official report, recounmends
that existing national forests he
not only retained by the government,
but increased by forfeiture suits. (Mr.
Conant in his report says that the concentration
in the bands of a few powerful
intorestB of an enormous percentage
of t^p timberlands of the United States
has created a grave problem. To increase
government ownership of forest
lands the commissioner urged that the
forests of Alaska be included in re
serve, as well as all tlmfberlands recovered
in forfeiture suits. He advises
a further searching Inquiry Into land
grants of the past with the view of instituting
additional forfeiture. In a previous
summary of the report the then
commissioner of corporations, Herbert
VnAv OnnltVi not fnrtti tViof fbo Q^nth.
ern Pacific Company is the greatest
private holder of timber In the United
States, controlling 106,000,000,000 feet;
the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company,
with 96.000,000,000 feet, the second largest,
and the Northern Pacific Railway
Company, with 36,000,000,0000 fleet, tho
third. Going further In detail, the full
report declares that five other Interests
control in the aggregate $102,000,000
feot of timber, practically all located
In the Pacific northwest. After en
ormous sa!es, the commissioner points
out that the Southern Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and tho Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe own together S3.500.000
acres of timbered and non-timbered
lands, an area as large as England. The
Amalgamated Copper Company, Tdt.
Conant adds, owns over 1,000,000 acres
nt Hmbtr land and more than 100.000
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ncres or non-tlm.bered land, all In >Mon- i
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THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTIILAm
From reportB In the Manufacturers'
Record of last week Southern industrial
progress Is lndlca'ei as lo lows:
Consolidation Coal Company, Baltl- i
more, Md., authorized $6,5000,000 notes
sold to New York syndicate, to contnue
and add to Kentucky developments,
including enlargement of operations
in Miller's Creek field, W. Va., '
plans contemplate increasing annual
output to 4,000,000 tons coal.
W. J. L. Engle, New Orleans, La., |
purchased 40,000 acres of stumpage
near Kiln, "Miss., for $1,000,000 and
plans to construct sawmill and tramway;
report states Mr. Engle organised
Jordan River Lumber Company, with
$250,ouO capital stock to develop this
timber, puchased W. W. Carre Company's
sawmill at Kiln, and will increase
annual capacity from 15,000,000
to 50,000,000 feet of lumber, construct
twrnty-flve-mile standard gauge railway,
etc.
M. L. Flelshel, Fullerton, La., and
associates, purchased 100,000 acres of
nino Hmhoe lonH In vlrlnltw nf Cf A n_
drews Bay, Fla., for $1,200,000; contemplate
building plant of 200,000 feet
daily capacity.
Upmugo Lumber Company, Thomasville,
Ga., purchased timber land estimated
to cut 40,000,000 lumber near
Metcalf, Ga., and will build plant to develop
tract, construct tram road about
fifteen miles long.
Dear Creek Cotton Instates Company,
Vlcksburg, Miss., purchased more than
25.000 acres of land in Sharkey and
Issaqucena counties, for $2,000,000, and
will continue general development, especially
cultivation of long staple cotton.
"Western Maryland Railway Com
pany, Baltimore, Xld., purchased ninety
acres of land at Port Covington at reported
cost of $800,000 for extension of
tenxdnal facilities, including construction
of coal piers, freight piers, warehouses,
grain elevators, trackage, etc.
Charles Godchaux, New Orleans, La.,
and associates are interested in a plan
to organize a $50,000,000 corporation to
consolidate sugar factories.
Yazoo Cold Water Drainage District,
Marks, Miss., organized to construct a
urainage system, embracing 350,000
acres at cost of $3,000,000; plana in
elude fifteen-mile main canal.
Interstate Electric Corporation,
Richmond, was incorporated with, capital
stock of $1,000,000.
Stonega Coal and Coke Company,
Stonega, Va.. appropriated $200,000 to
enlarge power plant and erect buildings
at several operations in Wise
county.
BEQCEST TO WASHINGTON AND
LEE.
Alumni and other friends of' Washington
and Lee University are rejoicing
in the munificent bequest made to that
institution by the late Mr. Robert P.
DoremuB. In extending congratulations
to the University, The Lynchburg
Advance says that latest information Is
to the effect that, while precise figures
are not known, yet the estate which will
ultimately go to the University Is
valued now at between three and five
million dollars. By the time It will become
the property of the great school
at T^exington, it will in all probability,
have increased in value to a large extent
The fact that Washington and Leo
already has a handsome endowment of
something over a million dollars, and
that Its assets lie not only in the great
national force it has exerted through.
her sons, hut in the priceless traditions
that are her peculiar heritage, of conrse
are guarantee of the perpetuation of
the institution and Its steady growth In
power and influence. The new bequest
places Washington and Lee far isp la
the tank of the nation's richest Institutions,
and widens her scope, promisee
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an Inconceivably greater equipment,
and increases her power tor service In
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BIIITII OF THE ATOM.
It is announced that Sir William
Ramsey, tbe theistlc philosopher and
the world's leading authority In science
has discovered the birth of the atom,
which William Kearney Carr, a Washington
scientist declares may mark the
birth of a new civilization, in which man
no longer will toe a slave to the material
world, tout will toe possessed of
[powers now undreamed of. If the meagre
telegraphic reports from London, as to
the findings of the eminent British
scientist are true, it means, according
to -Mr. Carr, that the theory that there
is no*such thing as matter, in the sense
in which the word is commonly used,
has been confirmed, and that a method
has been found -whereby it Is possible
to create new elements. 'Mr. Carr was
seen in his laboratory, where he has
been engaged in making experiments
similar to those conducted by Sir William
Ramsey. It is his belief that
science will be revolutionized by the
discovery. The possibilities of its Influence
upon religion and philosophy,
he declares, may be considered incalcuable.
The reuaarkable development in
the uses of electricity, following the
diBCOVerv Of this force, will he Infinite*
lmal as compared with the extent to
which the power to create elements will
be seized -upon by man in the effort to
produce a higher order of life, in the
opinion of Mr. Carr. Scientists all over
the world, he predicts, will turn to this
new field of opportunity, which he coneiders
practically limitless. Ab a suggestion
of what the future may bring
forth in view of the Ramsay disclosures,
Mr. Carr suggested that it may be possible
to create an element so sensitive to
light and electricity that persons using
a telephone will he able to see each
other at the time theyare in conversation.
It I* not unreasonable to suppose,
be pointed out, that life may be greatly
prolonged through the creation of new
elements that will be effective for this
purpose. In brief, bis conclusions are
that the possibilities of the new discovery
are so far-reaching that it la impossible
to estimate Just where the benefits
that may be expected to confer
upon man will end.
CHE!A AGAIX VICTIMIZED.
The ne<v republic of China has been
once more thwarted in its efforts to
secure a U>an, for urgent internal improvements
and for support of the army.
Russia and Japan are conspiring to
cripple and weaken the new republic so
it may become an easy prey to their
cupidity. There appears to be a conspiracy
of the great powers to accomplish
tnls end. The United States was
used as the first tool to defeat a matured
plan for a loan. Now it is
France. Some of the objections ad
vanced by the French (bankers were
quite unexpected, it was said, but these,
the American bankers thought, would be
sustained because of the predominance
of French Interests in the proposed
loan. A dispatch from Shanghai reU
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the critical ness of the situation which
Prance's attitude creates. The government
Is direfully without finances.
There are many unpaid troops, which
condition Is always fruitful of trouble.
Also, there is general unrest In many
sections, including Peking. There is no
telling what the eventualities will he If
money Is npt obtained. The situation
certainly la mors dangerous than any,
(February 19t 1918
since tb? abdication. Ttia Call or* at the
loan might easily cause a debacle
ANOTHER POLAR DISASTER.
The lure of the poles, barren of financial
or scientific values, has claimed an
other toll of death. The Royal Geographical
Society announces the disaster
that has befallen Captain Robert
F. Scott's Antarctic expedition which resulted
in the death of Captain Scott, Dr.
E. A. Wilson, Lieut. A. R. Bowers, Captain
I* E. G. Oates and Petty Officer
Evans. Captain Scott's party had reached
the South Pole and had there found
Captain Amunsden's tent and reoords.
On the way homeward, about March 29,
1912, eleven miles from One Ton Depot,
a blitzard overwhelmed them They
na.a suuerea greauy irom nunger ana
exposure, and the death of Soott,
Bowers and Wilson was virtually due
to that. They died soon after the blizzard
swept down upon the party. Oates
(Med from exposure a few days later.
The death of Evans resulted from n
fall. The other members of the expedition
are reported to be In good health.
A searching party discovered their
bodies and records some time later.
message of sympathy to the Geographical
Society from the king was read, in
which his majesty said: 'IT am deeply#
grieved to hear the very bad news you
give me of the loss of Captain Scott and
four of his party, just when we were
hoping shortly to welcome them home
on their return from their great and
arduous undertaking. I heartily sym*
pathlze with the Royal Geographical
Society in the loss to science and discovery
through the death of these gallant
explorers." The message from the
king was in reply to a notification of
the tiding from the Antartlc, transmitted
to his majesty hy Lord Curzon,
of Kedleston, president of the society.
The regular program of the meeting
wits B'wuiaonea, ana meuroers 01 me
society listened to heartfelt tributes to
the explorers. The Terra Nora sailed
on June 1, 1910, for New Zealand and
the South Pole. It was Joined by Captain
Robert F. Soott a few days later at
Cardiff. The expedition consisted of 28
officers and scientists, In addition to a
crew Of 23 picked men from the British
royal nary. The last direct word received
from Captain Soott himself was
brougrht by the commander of the Terra
Nova from the southern Ice regions,
-when she returned to New ZeaJ&nd.
March 31, 1911.
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