Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-02-02

dent, typical and true born country
king.
The growing increase of trade and
population tends to tax the soil to it's
utmost productive capacity and this in
turn must compel the ever watchful
and up-to-date farmer to work his land
and manage his crops SO as to obtain
the best results possible.
knowledge is power" and without
this practical knowledge of agriculture,
the farmer of to-day can no longer
hope to keep abreast in his pursuit
and successfully cope with the problem
of supplying the demands of the
market.
Mr.. T. B. Terry, the noted authority
on potato culture, says: Average
crops managed in average ways no
longer pay any profits, nor will they
ever again. Two things the success
full farmer of the future must do-he
must get larger returns per acre than
the average and he must reduce the
inent culturist also says: Success
will surely come, but it is faithful, per-
sistent, never firing, well directed
work that brings it.'
Not only is the world indebted to
the farm for the needs of the body, but
also for that greater necessity, the
bone and sinew of the state, for from
time immemorial it has been ably
demonstrated that the men who have
been the strength and mainstay of the
nation in her darkest hour, and by
their wise counsels and far-seeing
abilities as statesmen have guided the
good old ship of state through all the
greatest and most critical periods in
the history of this or any other coun-
try that ever knew the meaning of
sovereignty, were men who received
their early training in rural districts
and were surrounded by the congenial
influences of a farm home. The fact
is established beyond question that it
is in our farm homes that the men of
strong bodies and determined will, of
noble character and high purpose are
reared, who go out into the world
equipped to fight its battles, and while
winning in the race a high position
for themselves, help to elevate society
and leave the world better than they
found it. So while you are engaged in
the active discussion of topics bearing
directly on the material products of
the soil, | earnestly trust you will bear
in mind that the best product of the
farm is the manhood and womanhood
it develops in your sons and daughters,
and, therefore, the more attractive
you make the farm home and the more
intelligently you rear your children
the happier their lives on the farm
will be and when they leave the old
homestead and go out into the world
the. better equipped they will be for a
happy, useful life.
And now, with the hope that from
these who have come here fresh from
the college laboratory and agricultural
training school, full of new and useful
ideas, derived from actual tests and
experiments, as well as from the
knowledge gained by ripe experience
on the farm, that you will learn many
new things of practical value, |
again bid you a hearty welcome and
trust when you return to your homes
you may be the richer in that knowl-
edge so vitally important to yourselves
and your posterity.
MIR. JOSIAH HowARD's RESPONSE.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and GentLemen:-
This seems to be a most auspicious
day. We are greeted first by the
warm, bright sunshine whose orb rises
higher and higher each day, giving
promise of returning seed time and
harvest; and now as we gather here
this afternoon and listen to the greet
ing of this warm-hearted, energetic
youth i'll our county seat, whose orb,
bursting forth in the young strength
of glorious manhood, brings promise
of new life into our community, ought
we not to answer back with young
blood, Just as energetic, just as honest,
just as ambitious and just Us hopeful?
We thank you, Mr.. Chairman, for
giving us the privilege of hearing from
the young men, and think | voice the
sentiment of all who are interested i'll
farming, that we thank the speaker
for welcoming us as brothers And it
is right that he should do 50 for are
we not all members one of another?
1.-THE eye cannot say to the hand, |
have no need of thee, the head cannot
say to the stomach, | have no need of
thee" nor can the farmer or the mer-
chant say to each other we have no
need of thee.
The story is told of the city merchant
who kept hat store, who thought he
had no use for the drunkard, nor the
temperance advocate, but the temper
ance worker one day said to him: "My
friend, if | can convince that man
staggering along there by the post
office of the folly of spending his
money on liquor, that only robs him
of his substance and manhood, besides
taking away the decent living that his
wife and children deserve, don't you
think he would in q short time be liv-