The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-10

the soil or the climate. More neces.
sary adjuucts to successful farming are
as favorable and as reliable here a. any
part Of the United States. What has
given Nebraska whatever she may be
suffering under the nature Of a black
eye should not be attributed to the soil
or climate. There is a stronger and
more truthful reason than that. II
should be taken into consideration that
when ne government opcncG ~ iis
lands To home,teaders and pre.emptors
there was Il rush 30 the state to sccurc
real estate. THOUSANDS oi men cam,
here and took mp homestcads who had
never helC II plow ~ husked nm ear If
corn. Th" land was easily titled aud
1t was their idea that because land cost
niue or nothing crops needed but little
or no labor. Those mcn tried farming
hut they knew no more about it than
an editor does about the banking bu,i
ness and their venture turned out about
rs tue editors who went into the bauo.
ing business-in a total failure. Those
mel wrote back To their eastern friends
that fai ming could no, be made To pay
in Nebraska.
Other men came here and took ny
government land or purchased land
from the railroad companies. Those
other men were practical farmers aud
they have become rich by intelligently
and systematically tilling Nebraska's
soil. In every county in the state one
can find fan ms lying side by side, one
owner well to do and the other with
nothing to show for his years of toll
and grumbling. One man will! be found
to be a practical farmer while the Other
has been farming by guess. The latter
is the n who has written to his wife,
folks that farming does not pay and
the other has not Dragged of his sue.
cess. Consequently the people east of
us have received whatever information
they have of Nebraska from men
who could not make farming u success
In any part OF the world, and Nebraska
is made to suffer because of their com.
ing here.
Now, as suggested in the early part
of this arti lie, what Nebraska needs is
n truthful, plain, convincing write.up
OF our agricultural possibilities. Who
ever writes up Nebraska as an agricul.
tural state need not draw upon his i'm.
aginatiOn. He should drive GU, into
the country and make inquiry of those
farmers who are prosperous rs to when
they came to Nebraska, how much
they were worth when they came here,
and their estimated wealth al the pres.
ent time. Such inquiry should not be
cunnued to any n county nor to any
II section of the state and should be
gathered from every county and then
be published in newspaper form and
sent broadcast over the east. In such
a paper the editor or publisher should
not mix towns and cities with his agri
cultural matter but should give his
whole attention TO writing up the
farms and farmers, and to showing |
what may he accomplished by in,elli.
gent and Systematic farming. The re-
ports gathered from prosperous farm
ers would s~ubstantiate whatever ne
might reasonably say about farming
The expense If such II publication
should be horne by the real estate men
loan agencies, bankers, hotel men aud
attorneys. Such II paper would be read
and would lead to inquiry after Ne
braska farm lands and eventually To nm |
influx into the state of piactica, farm
ers.-Hasliugs Tribune.