Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17

Secretary kusk Forete,i. = Happy Futn,
for the

Secretary kusk Forcteiis = Happy Future
for the American Farmer.
Secretary Rusk in the New York Tribune.
AZ our population increases, the amount Of
culuvaois lands necessarily remaining station
airy, the ownership of land will naturally be
more greatly desired. As everybody now has
come to understand faily, it will not be a great
many years before all land available for acri-
cultural purposes without special prepare tion
involving very considerable expense will be
IN the hands Of private owners. Just as soon
as that period is reached, we may look for
considerable rise in the value Of land trough
out the country. this being accompanied, as
opine It will, by a restriction of the many OPP
portunities which now exist for the employ
ment Of capital in various ways afIording a
comparatively high rate of interest
The attention OF capitalists will then be
directed more ard more TO the posi-
bilities Of agriculture. which, though AZ
iordng comparatively low rate OF in
terest on The money invested, will at the same
time afford. in the ownership OF land and its
steadily increasing value, an element of security
as well as Of ultimately increased value Of the
original investment. These conditions will I'M
douGtedly also be accompanied by many
others In the natural DEVELOPING mt of the coun-
try, such es the extension TO country districts
OF advantages and facilities now dificult to
obtain outside OF oar towns and cities. which
viii remove many Of the objections which now
exist IN the minds % many persons to resi-
dence in the country. Moreover, the growing
appreciation Of the importance Of agricul-
ture, and OF the intelligence and education
necessary to successful farming, viii tend to give
to farm life greater attractions in the eyes OF
the coming generations than it now possesses
The increase in land values wall necessarily
have the beneficial effect of inducing farmers
OF comparatively limited intelligence and
means TO part with all the land which they
themselves are not able to cultivate, and will
thus multiply the number of small farms and
restrict the ownership of large farms to men
of the highest intelligence and education with
capital sufficient for the extensive employment
Of labor and the possession of all the equip
ment necessary to tine very best kind OF FARM
ing;
already indicated. and the march OF time which
will bring with II the changed condition have
spoken OF. seem of themselves to indicate
wonderful and varied scope in the future of
American agriculture. When the time shall
come that no agricultural product which can
be produced in the United States shall be pur-
chased abroad; when the fullest and latest in
Formations II available to all classes OF farmers
an rhis country as to the crops OF which a sur
plus can be readily marketed abroad. and as to
the extent OF the demand for such surplus;
when every section of the country is devoted 20
raising tina. which il can raise bsst and cheap
est and which commands a ready and profitable
sale; when wise legislation has reduced the bur-
dens OF the farmer to o minimum, and has at
the same time greatly enlarged his oppor-
tunities; when diplomatic zeal shall have been
exercised to smooth the way for the sale of our
agricultural products in foreign countries with
as much earnestness rs has heretofore been
shown for our manufacturing, mercantile and
financial interests; when our relations in this
respect especially, have been extended to the
fullest Limit not only with the countries Of
Europe but with those Of tropical America and
even OF Asia-I am quite sure that the scope of
American agriculture will far transcend any
limits which my feeble pen can depict No
doubt, indulge, and have often INDUCED, IN
rose-colored anticip&tions with regard TO the
future OF agriculture in this great agricultural
country, favored it 10 in different parts of its
vast realm with soil and climate suitable to the
necessities and comforts OF man: and yet per-
sist in believing that however rose-colored
my anicipations are they viii still fall
short Of what the realization. even a quarter of
. century hence, will be. 1t is from such con-
victions No these that am led to cali the atten-
ton OF our American youth to agriculture as
one OF the industries most worthy Of their at
teution in considering their future career. /
say INTERESTINGLY that the young men of our
country who will bring to agriculture the edu-
cation and intelligence, the industry and per-
severance essential to success in every career,
whether mercantile, industrial OF professional
will, in the course Of the next twenty years. at
tain far greater degree of material well being
on the average than awaits them In any other
calling. believe that twenty years fromfnow
the now almost universal desire of youth resi-
dent In the country to abandon ii for the city
will be reversed, and that numbers of these
brought mp and trained in city life will look
forward to life in the country rs the most de-
sirable, uniting the prospect OF ample compe-
tencs with independence, health and enjoy
ment