The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
Jurisprudence
HARRY FARMER,s TALKS.


Correspondents VI AC 4
Harry Farmer will give some OF
his thought on the future of agricul-
ture. Of course, he has some ideas
that may seem funny ; some Of them
will be realized while others will
come to naught.
1t is his belief that nearly all the
farms will become smaller, as
it will be out of the power
of one person to do what is
necessary even on a few acres.
But the great crops realized by a few
now will be greatly increased by the
farmer of the future. A great deal
of the work will be done by maohln-
cry. The public roads will have
street cars on them run by electricity
Just as we find to-day in cities. We
think now that liquid air will be
used to run plows and other farm
machinery in the place of the horse
or mule. A large factory will be
erected in convenient places and the
electric cars loaded and carried all
over the country. Just think OF
the farmer getting out of bed and
mounting his bike and running down
to the car with a tin bucket to get
some liquid air to run his pillow with
instead of going to the barn and
feeding his horse!
His barn will be so arranged that
the cattle and other stock viii be
given their feed at regular hours
without having to go about it. This
can be done by a clock that will
dump in hay one hour and bran, etc,
the next hour. The water will be
running through all the time, so
that a good draught can be taken by
the animals any hour that they
want it.
Oil stoves will take the place of
wood and coal in the kitchen. The
cook can prepare everything shat
she (some times he) wants for break
fast and place it in the stove then
next morning she can touch a but
ton and turn on a current and light
the fire in the stove and take an
other nap while breakfast is cook
ing. Ladies, won't this be nice?
One of the greatest discoveries
will be in a plan to destroy insects.
When the grasshoppers T eating
up the crops in the field n or two
will be caught and the germs of ma
laria or diphtheria injected into their
bodies, after which they will be
turned loose to go and spread it over
the whole field, and have the whole
army down at ut time, the most Of
them to rise no more. Then when
spring comes and Mr.. Bedbug makes
his appearance, he will be caught
and given a germ of smallpox which
will be easily communicated to his
neighbor who soon succumbs to this
terrible disease and will be in a con
dition to modest the tired farmer no
more.
The gardener will only have to
give the "greasy cut worm" a little
consumption bacillus, and, instead
of this nice fat worm changing
into a fitting butterfly, he will waste
away and cough himself to death
while the cabbage and tomatoes will
go ON their way rejoicing in the
hopes Of being white and red in the
future.
The corn raiser will have to be
supplied every spring with cholera
germs, with which he will inoculate
his corn to make the bill bug and
bud worm so sick that they will die.
Now as to the farmer himself he will
be vaccinated and made disease proof
so far as common diseases are con
cerned, and be surrounded by SAM
tary conditions so that he will live
to wear out. But new diseases will
come which will keep the doctors
from perishing and the population
from becoming too dense.
We could describe some of these
things which will surely come to
pass, but we will wait until another
time. But while you wait, plant
just as many COW peas this summer
as you possibly can.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. G.
The Tllman-McLauri squabble
seems to have blown over at last,
which g disappointment for
those individuals who find nothing
so much to their taste as a fierce,