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How are Feeding Experiments to be of Greater Value to the Farmer?

Abstract

At no period in our nation's history has there been as great a need of systematic research in agriculture and a thorough dissemination of truths discovered tlian at this time. In the past we have met the increasing demands of a country rapidly becoming more populous by extending our farming area, a fact revealed by government statistics which show that from 1900 to 1905 the average yield of the cereals, corn, wheat, oats, and barley was but a fraction of a bushel per acre more than during a similar period twenty-five years previous, while the total production of these cereals nearly doubled in that time. During more recent years there has been a small increase in yield, due, no doubt, to the fact that arable land in the United States is now practically all occupied, prices on farm products have increased, land has become more highly capitalized, and larger yields are necessary to pay interest on the new valuation.