The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-22
Boys Should Stick to the Farm.


the farm to 60 to town make great
mistake. 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
to-day lies in your own acres" Cow.
per wrote, "God made the country:
man made the town" It was an old
Greek and Roman opinion that "citics
are the crowns of earth and hold the
best of life. Which shall it be,
country or town? The answer comes
from the city. The business man as
rule says, "Whcn become rich
will go back to the country again"
lie Is doing So and abandoned farms
are disappearing To live in the
country after the manner Of Farmer
Jefferson, the early presidents,
Daniel Webster and nearly all of the
late Presidents, Vi English statesmen
and English and French scholars of
ample mcans, is becoming one Of the
new and healthy examples of scholar
~ and successful business men. Near
ly all authors live in the country near
cities or have country homes.
The time was when intellectual
people lived in the country. Then
came rush to the cities, and young
men on the farm3 left the heritage of
their fathers for the city or for the
West. This current of life is arrest
cd.
1t is not only the electric car, which
gives to most places in the country
the advantages Of the city that is do
ing this. 1t is the fact that pr tected
crops make small farms profitable.
Go out of Boston to place like Ar
lington and see the glass gardens or
cross the river as Fall River and note
the great greenhouses, part of whose
markets is Now York. The young
man under these new methods Of
farming will secure o greater profit
from two acres than his grandfather
did from fifty. The great growth of
factory towns makes for him ready
market and the electric car a new car
riage. There is in Connecticut farm,
OF ten acres under glass.
Protected crops is the new trend of
country life, and uuder this system
ten acres of land are enough. Holland
ordered back tho sea and became rich
in her protected gardens. Florida is
recovering through her protected
orange groves, and she promises to be-
come more prosperous than ever be-
fare. Her trees are we'll worth pro-
teotion. I have seen grape fruit
tree near Belleview, Fla, thai bore
$500 grape fruit yearly, worth $3.50. /
One hundred choice orange trees
would give ono a good income. Why
did the orange groves fail? For want
Of protection.
The Dakotas are protecting their
short season crops from drought by
little iryigating windmills. Costa
Rica protects her coffee from the sun
by banana leaves. So everywhere. |
The agricultural college, electricity
and protection are making small farms
good investments everywhere, even
for women. Small fruit farms pay;
poultry farms, vegetable farms, flower
farms, farms given to the highest de-
velopment Of special things.
Women clubs everywhere help the
tendency to country life. The farmers
wife is no longer lonesome in her
healthful retreat amid tho trees, birds
AID flowers. The club gives her men.
tai food.
The grange in the West offers the
young farmers the widest intelli.
genoe.
No; do not leave the farm, unless
you have the gift Of some professional
calling. The farm, aud the small
farm, is becoming the best and most
desirable possession on Garth, and
how to make the small farm yield the
most profit is one of the most inter
csting 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
intellectual life. Stay"