Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-22
STICK TO THE FARM.
A Wise Old Man Gives Some Sensible
Advice.

Hezekiah Butterworth, editor Of The
Youths Companion, believes that the
great majority of boys who leave the
farm to go to town make great mis-
take. In the Chicago Tribune he has
this to say on the subject:
The electric road, the industrial
school and agricultural college and the
trend Of successful business minds
which seeks the country in middle life,
say to the young man on the farm,
"Stay where you are. Success today
lies in your own acres" Cowper wrote,
"God made the country; man made the
town." It was an old Greek and Ro-
man opinion that "cities are the crowns
of earth and hold the best Of life."
Which shall 1t be, country or town?
The answer comes from the city. The
business man as rule says, "When
become rich I will go back to the coun-
try again." He is doing so, and aban-
doned farms are disappearing. To live
in the country after the manner OF
Farmer Jefferson" the early presi-
dents, Daniel Webster and nearly all
of the late presidents, Of English states
men and English and French scholars
of ample means, Is becoming one Of the
new and healthy examples Of scholarly
and successful business men. Nearly
all authors live in the country near cit
les, or have country homes.
The time was when intellectual peo-
pie lived in the country. Then came a
rush to the cities, and young men on
the farms left the heritage Of their
fathers for the city or for the West.
This current Of life Is arrested.
It is not only the electric car, which
which gives to most places in the coun-
try the advantages Of the city that Is
doing this. It is the fact that protect
ed crops make small farms profitable.
Go out Of Boston to a place like Arling-
ton and see the glass gardens, or cross
the river at Fall River and note the
great greenhouses, a part Of whose
markets under these new methods OF
farming will secure a greater profit
from two acres than his grandfather
did from So The great growth Of fac
tory towns makes for him ready mar
ket and the electric car a new carriage.
There is in Connecticut a farm Of ten
acres under glass.
Protected crops is the new trend OF
country life, and under this system ten
acres Of land are enough. Holland or
dered back the sea and became rich In
her protected gardens. Florida Is re-
covering through her protected orange
groves, and she promises to become
more prosperous than ever before. Her
trees are worth protection. have seen
a grapefruit tree near Belleview, Fla,
that bore 1,500 grape fruit yearly, worth
$3.50. One hundred choice orange trees
would give one a good income. Why
did the orange groves fail? For want
of protection.
The Dakotas are protecting their
short season crops from drought by lit
tie irrigating windmills. Costa Rica
protects her coffee from the sun by ba-
mana leaves. So everywhere. The ag-
ricultural college, electricity and pro-
lection are making small farms good
investments everywhere, even for wo-
men. Small fruit farms pay; poultry
farms, vegetable farms, flower farms,
farms given to the highest development
Of special things.
Women's clubs everywhere help the
tendency to country life. The farmers
wife Is no longer Lonesome In her
healthful retreat amid the trees birds
and flowers. The club gives her men
tai food.
The grange in the West offers the
young farmers the widest intelligence.
No; do not leave the farm, unless
you have the gift Of some professional
calling. The farm, and the small farm,
is becoming the best and most desira-
BILE possession on earth, and how to
make the small farm yield the most
profit is one Of the most interesting
studies. Abandoned farms in New
England are wholly to disappear, and
on them Is destined to live the best OF
all life, the true, honest and intellec-
tual life. Stay"