Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1892-04-15
A FINE PICTURE.

AFINE PICTURE
Secretary Rusk Tells What the Ideal
American Farmer Will Be.
1.-The ideal American farmer" said
Secretary Rusk, sis man OF brains.
His hope Of success will be intelligence.
The sharp competitions between Sec
tions and countries which will be in
duced by increased facilities for trans
portation will stir the agricuturist up
to his best efforts. His chances for
fortune making will be great, but he
will have to be prepared to fight the
battle of competition. He must be
sufficiently we'll educated in science as
far as 1t is applicable to agriculture,
and he must be intelligent enough to
study his surroundings and to apply
his knowledge to the conditions about
him. The farmer of the future will be
q business man. able not only to COM
pei his soil to do it's best in the mat
ter of production, but to study the
market and know what will sell the
best and what will command the high
est price. This farmer will keep his
accounts like any other business man.
Az to the question of his education,
when you consider that he must have
a knowledge of all the principles OF
animal and plant life; that he must
understand the constituent elements
of soils and fertilizers, and that he
must have some knowledge of meteoro.
logy, chemistry and the other sciences
closely connected with crop raising,
you will see that the ideal farmer OF
the future will have to be not only q
brainy but g. we'll educated man"
Cummings VS.. Loucks.
Rev. E. B. Cummings used to be edi.
tor OF the Dakota Ruralist, but was
somehow for some reason succeeded
by II. l.. Loucks. Mr.. Cummings
wen: to Indianapolis and became edi-
tor OF the American Nonconformlst
and Industrial Liberator-a paper
published in the interest of the lnde.
pendent party. In a recent issue a
correspondent asked Editor Cummings
about this farmers alliance store
business" and also for his advice and
opinion on tue subject. To this cor
respondent the following reply was
given:
only one we have heard OF who fills the
description you give. And OF them
we are free to say, the men OF COM
pany who fall into their net will have
lots of experience to sell in the course
of short time. Men of millions do
not engage in great, Widespread enter
Drises of that nature for the dividends
they long to see the farmer receive.
They have not been shrewd enough to
corner all the cordage product and
patents as we'll, just to protect the
farmer from the grasp of monopoly.
Our advice to all is, keep your finger
out Of these schemes. Let legitimate
business be encouraged, and not
preach antitrust to the public while
in your pocket you carry stock in one
OF the most gigantic trusts ever
organized"
The farmer alliance members in
South Dakota will some of these times
come to regret more than ever that
man like Rev. Mr.. Cummings, who can
give them such advise as the above,
should have been crowded out of the
editorial chair of their special organ.
He undoubtedly has struck the milk
in the cocoanut in regard to this Ma
tional Union scheme, and it would be
we'll for the farmers or this state If
they could have his doctrine preached
to them instead of that of Loucks and
Wardall and Crosse and Harden. In
addition to the information supplied
the enquirer, as quoted above, Elder
Cummings makes also the following
note IN his editorial columns:
"The National Union company made
no howl 80 long as it was charged
they were a millionaire firm, but SO
soon as it was shown that they hadn't
even the wealth, then they began to
kick" k."-Sioux Falls Press.