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Authorized counties to appropriate $5,000 annually for soil and crop improvement. 1913. $500, cross-breeding of fruits and edible nuts. Authorizing establishment of county corporations for improvement of agriculture. 40,000, experiment station. 10,000, veterinary investigation. 17,000, experimental farm. 40,000, agricultural extension.
The Congress has the right and can find the means to protect its own prerogatives. We are justified in our present confidence. Restoration of national income, which shows continuing gains for the third successive year, supports the normal and logical policies under which agriculture and industry are returning to full activity. Under these policies we approach a balance of the national budget.
Unhappily we are not permitted to trace stage by stage the history of the internal development of this remarkable people in these its chief seats; we must be content with presenting at least some outline of its historical culture and political condition, as it here meets us in the time of Caesar. Population Agriculture and the Rearing of Cattle
A friend of mine who was studying the Danish system of state aid to agriculture, found this to be the opinion of the Danes of all classes, and was astounded at the achievements of the associations of farmers not only in the manufacture of butter, but in a far more difficult undertaking, the manufacture of bacon in large factories equipped with all the most modern machinery and appliances which science had devised for the production of the finished article.
He found a colleague, who may be briefly noticed as a remarkable representative of the same movement. The region was still in a primitive state. There were no roads: agriculture was of the crudest kind; part of the rent was still paid in feudal services; the natives were too ignorant or lazy to fish, and there were no harbours.
"Listen to the incantation," said Stolo. 'May the earth keep the malady, May good health remain here. Saserna bids you chant this formula thrice nine times, to touch the earth, to spit and be sure that you do it all before breakfast." "You will find," said I, "many other wonderful secrets in Saserna, all equally foreign to agriculture, and so all to be left where they are.
Then, side by side with this queen of the earth, we find a demigod of agriculture by the plough the lord of grain, or of the thing ground by the mill.
Along our way various operations of agriculture were being carried on by machinery, the forms of which were new to me, and for the most part very graceful; for among these people art being so cultivated for the sake of mere utility, exhibits itself in adorning or refining the shapes of useful objects.
As a servant of government he receives rations for himself and family, but I believe he is not paid in money. The time belonging to himself he can devote to agriculture or any other employment he chooses. The Cossacks reside with their families, and some of them acquire considerable property.
The manufacturing States wished the encouragement of manufactures, the maritime States the encouragement of shipbuilding, and the agricultural States the encouragement of agriculture." Sir, I will detain the Senate by reading no more extracts from these debates.
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