Addresses Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Columbus, January 10 and 11, 1912F.J. Heer printing Company, 1912 - 85 էջ |
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Էջ 57 - growing season" is meant the time between the average date of the last killing frost In the spring and the average date of the first killing frost in the fall.
Էջ 47 - Such an inquiry made carefully and without haste by men who are thoroughly well prepared, and continuing over a series of years, would give us the data for all future work with local problems. We must have the geographical facts. We are now lacking them. We talk largely at random. We must discover the factors that determine the production of crops and animals in the localities, and the conditions that underlie and control the farm life. One part of this inquiry should consider the soil conditions....
Էջ 6 - I know of no pursuit in which more real and important service can be rendered to any country, than by improving its agriculture...
Էջ 73 - EFFICIENCY. The importance of natural variation and differences in climate, in relation to agricultural production, has never been fully realized. As far as they are able, plants vary and adjust themselves to their environment. Under natural conditions only those survive which can modify their habits of growth so as to make a successful resistance to destructive influences and propagate their kind. The rest die. The longer a species or variety grows under a given set of conditions, the better each...
Էջ 7 - Land without population is a wilderness and population without land is a mob. The United States has many social, political, and economic questions — some old, some new— to settle in the near future; but none so fundamental as the true relation of the land to the national life.
Էջ 7 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.
Էջ 32 - ... is repaid from a constant yearly annuity. Consequently, the cost of amortization depends on the length of the loan, and on the rate of interest. On a loan running for seventyfive years at 4.30 per cent interest, the annuity — including interest and amortization — is at the rate of 4.48 per cent per annum. The borrower has the right to pay the principal of the loan at any time, and to profit by the amortization already made. He can also make partial payments and thereby reduce the amount of...
Էջ 8 - All political economy that is not mere empty theory rests upon the ratio of population to land area, the abundance and value of the products of the soil, and the proper balance and inter-relation of different industries.
Էջ 32 - ... this country is concerned, that part of its operations covering the making of mortgage loans to landowners is of the greatest interest. Our municipalities now have a broad and steady market for their securities. The Credit Foncier makes loans to landowners on the following terms : — 1. Short-time loans, without amortization, for a period of from one to nine years. 2. Long time loans, with annual amortization, for a period of from ten to seventy-five years. The rate of interest on these loans...
Էջ 7 - In Ohio, for example, while the total population has increased 15 per cent in each of the last three decades, and the urban population 30 per cent in each, the rural population actually decreased 4 per cent the first decade and 6$ per cent the second decade.