THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 8

THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURE.

DK. HOPKINS'ON THE SUBJECT.

Dr. Hopkins, in the course of some ■topics contributed to "Hoard's Dairv,man, writes as follows:—

In thes* latter ..days there is much v lal unserving our natural resources, but 90 per cent, of tho talk is'directed wXI /° ?" cent ot tho r «ources. without a-prosperous agriculture in America there can be. no permanent prosperity for our, American - institutions. While some small countries.can support by conducting trade, commerce, and manufacture for other countries, American agriculture must not only bß, ; self-£upporting,bnr, in large decrees Agriculture-must support our other great industries.

_ "Without agriculture, . the coal andiron would; remain in. the. earth, tlio forest would, be left uncut, the railroads would- be abandoned, the cities depopulated, and the wooded lands and waterways would "again he used only for hunting and fishing. Shall we not remember, for example, that, the coal-mine yields a single .harvest-one crop-and is then for.eyer abandoned; while tho soil, must vie d a hundred-yes, a thousand crops, and even then it must be richer aud more productive'than at the beginning, if tho=e who _cpme after ns are. to continue to jnultiply and replenish the earth."