The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
THE FARNrR,s homie.
1T should BE the Happiest and Rest
En- rfIl.


nent of farmers institutes IN the
EfaEe Of Pennsy lvania states that at
EVERY two days institute held in the
state during the coming winter, the
evening session of the first day IS to
be set apart to the ladies, and the
topic lis to be Country Homes. All
Eoplcs relating 70 home life in the
country will be included, such as the
constructing Of homes. the heating,
sghfang, ventilating, and sanitary ar
engagements for country homes; the
water supply. sewage and plumbing
For houses in the country: the cooking
pf food, the care of the sick. the care
Of the children. flower gardening,
katchen gardening, house decoration.
and al that relates in any way TO
comfort conve niencess healsh and en-
toyment in a country home.
Commenting upon the ideas Sug-
gested in this letter in the Louisville
Home and Farm, Waldo F. Brown, an
eminent authority on rural matters,
bays:
This seems to me to be move in
zle right direction, for two reasons:
First because the home on the farm
Is the most important thing about it,
and the farm should always be sub
ordinate to the home; end, second, it
Is G wise move to direct the discussion
Of the institutes into practical chan
Eels ard nor allow TOO much latitude
TEoTs Of farmers institutes that were
taken up with topics that were not of
interest 10 the audience, but in which
some long-wirded theolist undertook
TO air his wisdom ard wasted the
time OF the audience and wearied and
disguised them.
In the state Of Pennsylvania this
year the superintendent have ordered
that at half the sessions only three
topics shall be discussed. the other two
being Good Roads and The Educa-
ton of the Farmer and His Children"
This leaves three sessions in which TO
discuss miscellaneous topics. One pa
oer ias its name indScates) is a believer |
In the country home, ana so its tide is
HnTne and Farm. and not farm and
home.
] have always desired to exait the
country home and believe that no
home on earth can be made more at
iTactive, and that in no other country
IN the world do the farmers have SO
good homes as in America. or SO large
"a per cent. of the filters OF the soil own
their own homes. There has been in
the past too much changing Of homes,
the farmers selling cut at the first good
pffer and starting over again, and
while this is sometimes wise or neces-
Bary, / would advise every young
couple starting on the farm TO choose !
q location wisely and then settle down
For life if possible
In spite of low prices for farm prod
nets and depression of farm interests,
bhepe is a better chance now to secure
sure living and a moderate cOnpe-
Lence for old age on the farm than in
r1ost callings. and less risk of absolute
failure The farmer has a sure living
and cannot by amy possibility be
Thrown cut of work, and there ara so
many different kinds of farming that
EVERY taste can be suited
I believe lit to he true, also, that
leaving out the professions, but includ-
Ing all men engaged in manufacturing,
Rnd trade, and wage earners, a larger
per cent. OF farmers will own their
homes free from debt, at fifty years of
Rge. taan in all these callings com
binedl
The most successful farmers of the
iuiuTe ] believe will be those with
email farms. thoroughly cultivated, and
producing first of all a great variety |
bf luxuries for the family, and then
Same special products to sell suited to
the market. and which the farm is |
well adapted to. l hold that the small |
PIT farm that will support the owner s
Family and leave him a small surplus |
ttle pleasanter the farmers life will be- |
Here and there scattering all over our
land are found farmers who, with |
farms of forty acres or less, are receiv- |
ing more money for its products and |
Furnishing their families with more of
hhe Comforts and luxuries of life than
their ne6ghbors with one hundred and |
sixty acres. and these are the farmers !
bhat ] would hold UP as models.
They pay taxes on but one-fourth as |
much land. they can work it with less !
horses and fewer implements. and do |
not need to hire so much help, and |
having less capital invested in land. |
ran have more working capital and /
can pay cash for all he buys instead |
pf paying interest on debts or running /
UP bills to be paid at the end of the |
PEAR.
1t is now forty years since the writ
er started on the farm, and land can
be bought now for about half what il |
post then. If one must run in debt !
For pert of his land, interest is much |
lower. / paid 10 per cent. for money !
10 put up buildings on my farm and |
s1lat was the common rate for a long |
berries of years; now it would be but |
hthEa more than half that. and | pre- |
rune plenty of farms could be bought |
With the interest on deferred pay |
nnent. only per cent, If the seller was |
slr,e of getting his interest promptly. |
1 do not think it will be an easy !
task to make a comfortable living on a /
en1an farm, but life is not easy at the |
best and brings more OF discipline /
MAN OF ease, and taking all things
INTO consideration, the chances seem |
10 be more than average for the young |
man who settles down to fight the f,
battle of life on the farm If he must |
Benend on his own exertionS he must |
not expect to begin life in the same
style that his father is living in, after |
forty years Of industry and economy, |
but must have the moral courage to |
no withouE what he cannot pay for. |
as there is nothing that will ruin |
man's life more certainly than an in |
nreasing burden Of debt A man may
wear cheap clothes and eat plain food
Nmd respect himself, but he cannot |
Submit to duns and dodge creditors |
and retain either self-respect or that
Ef his neigabo-s. I would rather ride
an a secondhand spring wagon, costing
k20, that is paid for than a 5000 car
riage that / had run in debt for and
BIZ my own locality there are examples !
Df both OF these methods.
OUR BOYS.