The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-04-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRlCULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About. Gull
tivation of b Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, viticulture and
Horticulture
Two WAYS Of Farming.

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ing followed in this country. n way
is called farming by brute force" and
the other is called farming by the sid
Of brains" This thought is brought
out by the remark that a certain local.
ity in the United States cannot hope
to hold its present position in the COM
p~etitive production of agricultural
products. because the farmers in that
locality are all farming by brute force.
Not only are the men working in the
fields, but the women and children also
are working in the fields. The sons
and daughters of these farmers are
being robbed of their privileges in this
land OF schools, while for a time they
help their fathers make a hard living.
1t is also reported on good authority
that, even with the whole family work.
Ing long hours every day, the returns
are not commensurate with the efforts
put forth. Yet the men that farm this
way will succeed in paying for their
farms. though they will send out their
o n from those farms utterly unable
to cope with the great progressing
world around them. The daughters
will be broken down in health by the
time they are of age, and will have
that condition as the only reward for
their years Of service in the fields.
This is no mere theory, but the writer
has seen it demonstrated in real life.
This, style Of farming is not the kind
that has built up the country, it is a
late importation from rural Europe.
1t is q detriment and a menace to every
community where it is practiced. The
farmer that works the adjoining Sec
ton and sends his children to school
and permits his wife to live and dress
as q woman should finds the other
farmer a hard competitor in that he is
always underselling his neighbors,
since he has the labor Of his family to
help him produce below average cost.
Ultimately this farmer will disappear
from the face Of the earth, but while
he remains he is an inconvenience both
to his competitors and the community
IN which he lives.
1t Is q foregone conclusion that the
man that farms by the help of brains
is the coming farmer. He is destined
to drive out the man that farms by
brute force, and the more rapid the
change the better will it be for the
country. The farmer with a high or
der of intelligence will make his fields
bring forth such crops as the other
farmer never raised; his sons aud
daughters will be set free from the
"drudsery" Of farm life, but will find
in the air and sun Of the farm the place
Of all others where their souls can ex-
pand and glow. The new farmer
reaches out to others Of his kind and
allies himself with others to gain
mutual ends. The farmer that knows
no method but that Of brute force is
incapable Of combining effectively with
any one or for any purpose. A new
era has dawned for agriculture, and
every man that refuses to recognize the
changing conditions. and the new re-
quirements will find himself out Ct
harmony with progress as it touches
him. He will be entirely incapable Of
adapting himself to new situations as
they arise. 1t is full time for all farm
ers to abandon the kind Of farming
that succeeds only by blind exertion
and take up the new way, which
promises to accomplish more with less
expense of muscle.