The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-12

! ton Of the time = century hence, viii
farming, according to the picture drawn
| By G. s. Plumb In the New England
| Magazine. Rich mems sons will rush
into It as they now do into the learned
professions, rich men themselves will
turn to it Is theynow turn TO fancy steam
yachts and fast horses. 1t win be the
fad. Children viii cry for it. The man
most looked up TO In the community
the handsomest, SWEETEST, brainiest and
most influential citizen Of affairs gener-
ally we are toinfer viii be the farmer.
Agriculturists will have nearly all the
lawmaking to do. because this is an
agricultural country.
A few OF the minor improvements are
to be noted ~ follows: Five average
Strawberries viii make quart. The
Same will be- true Of blackberries, goose
berries and raspberries, and tho seeds
win have III been educated out 81 them,
like bad manners III two 81 three gener.
ations Of family. None of the cattle
Will have horns. Jerseys win give pure
cream. Holsteins viii give milk. All
the roads Of the country win be asphalt
ypavements. Horses will be needed no
longer except for racing and for their
flesh, which will be table delicacy.
Wagons win have pneumatic tire bicy-
Gle wheels and viii be run by electricity.
They win be noiseless when they fly
along the roads.
Nobody has any farm larger than fifty
acres any more. and most Of them are
ten acres in size in the year 1000.
Wheat produces always fifty bushels to
the acre; corn. 200. The soils and farm
products have been 80 carefully ana
lyzed that the agricnlturist knows ex-
actly what kind OF fertilizer to feed the
ground to produce a given vegetable
growth, whatever it is. Farmers are
college graduates and there is an agri-
cultural experiment station in every
county. Machinery does all the work.
Pneumatic tubes underground connect
house and barn, 80 that conversation
can BIO carried on between them. More
over, the insect pests which do damage
to crops are rapidly in course Of exter-
mination by means Of the cultivation Of
other insects that destroy them. ''Fleas
have other feas to bite 'em," as 1t were,
and eat them up. Each farmer has his
insecticide breeding pen, in which he
cultivates carefully the insects that de-
your those which are inimical to his
fruit and grain. The population num-
bers SOC, ZOO, 900 in the year 1000, and
people use an immense quantity Of dairy
foods, deeming them most healthful.
Hens that lay s65 eggs ine year are
the ones in demand, and milking, like
all the other hard work. is done by ma
chinery.
Farmers raise all the sugar we need,
much Of 1t from the sugar beet, at cost
Of one cent a pound Electricity plays a
part Of unreasonable importance in the
rural life Of the year 2O0o 1t cuts grain.
mows away hay and plows. Electric
shovels and brooms work miracles.
Whatever on the farm is hard or dirty
to do, that this obedient servant Of man
kind steps in and accompanies with
neatness and celebrity. Every farmhouse
has an electric plant. Fruits and vege-
tables OF superior kinds are grown by
electricity. But 1t Is in the household
that this magician performs its greatest
marvels. II does everything, and farm
ers' wives dwell in sort Of earthly par
adise. With prophetic eye our author
sees this vision,
In the house the rooms are lighted by cleo
tricity; doors and windows are opened and
closed by pressing N electrio button; butter
inverted brush box with handle. worked b.
quiring simply the guidance Of hand power
ninglike fuid. and likewise the elevator In
houses two stories high: all cooking y conduct
ed IN electric stoves. and AL clothing q washed
and ironed by simple, inexpensive machinery
run BY electricity. Az . result Of this tighten.
ing Of women's labors on the farm. while q
century ago the larger percentage Of the WON
On In our insane asylum were fnrmers' wives
today these form the smallest percentage Of
those from any walk In life. In fact. no won.
en- In America And greater enjoyment in their
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