The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-12-09

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Is enjoyment in rural life it would be
surely found when the business was
conducted on scientific principles and
with the labor employed working in
harmony where no effort was expended
at loss, but all directed on single
point and by an administrative brain.
Such an association would require
considerable change in the public roads
it is probable and those parts embraced
within the territory owned by the
association would be the object of
general improvement so that travel and
teamiDg could be done with comfort
and despatch at all seasons of the year.
Hard, smooth roads would be consid-
cred of indispensable necessity within
the limits of the associations property
and such roads would doubtless soon
be constructed They are just as much
needed under present conditions, but
no individual is able to achieve 20
desirable result, but corporation has
the power of many in one, and its
influence on the public is just as great
as its power to achieve in its own behalf.
The supervision of the roads within its
limits would be given to it without
hesitation let who or what party might
be in power, and an additional appro-
priation would be assigned to it of
money to be expended in perfecting
the roads within its borders. The in
fuence and benefit of such an associa-
ton, bound by corporate authority
would extend in every direction and be
felt acting as new and powerful force
both in the public or pol as we'll
as the social world, while the public
servant and law making power pays no
: attention to the demands of thousand
individuals who have no stronger
bond among them than at present exists
among farmers, the moment corporte
body speaks they incline listening ear
toward it, and in most instances OBJ
sequeously grant its request.
Not the least among the pleasures
and benefits such an advance on present
J conditions would bring to farmers
4 would be the improved home and home
life. No one knows so we'll as the
farmers wife the round of daily toll
: that falls to the lot of the female part of
the isolated farm home, extending far
into the night after the labors of the
day are ended by the men who cease
from their toll at the downgoing Of the
sun. With none but the members Of
her own family to care for, her labors
would be lightened and the farm home
frightened as never can be hoped for
, amid present surroundings and painful
exactions.
Q Released from the labor which at
present overtaxes the female members
e Of the farmers family, and especially
j the wife and mother, there are several
J. lines of profitable employment could
, be entered into exempt from the
e ordinary drudgery of the farmers
: kitchen, among which poultry raising
$ would probably prove most remunera-
t tive and pleasant with that amount Of
o out door employment which is the
}. most conducive to health.
e Families who preferred to keep 6
e COW or horse or both could do as those
= in villages are accustomed to do, while
: those who preferred could receive theil
S daily supply of milk and cream as vel
o as butter from the company's dairy
s wagon which would make its rounds
a among the families, while fresh meats
= vegetables and fruit would be furnished
:. in the same way. The profits accruins
s from these items of cooperative indus
: try, now lost to the farmers family, il
!. they attempt to indulge in them, woulG
It be returned to them through the gen.
y eral fund when the annual dividends
!. were divided among the share holders Of
i the company. From whatever point o.
It view is had the corporation, cooperative
= farming offers SO many advantages over
+ the present isolated sytem that it would
y only have to be intelligently considered
to be adopted,
Simple Questions Simply