The Newark journal., 1904-10-07
THE FARMER IS
 PROGRESSING
Often flakes One Acre Yield What
 Two Formerly Did.
He Also Enjoys More Comforts, More of Education and Refinement
 Than Ever.

l U IElt IdIi iIICL iBOA1 abJ other is due the grand work of the great tide of prosperity which has carried the country to the first po- sition amongst the nations of the world. Neither the farmer, nor his wife, nor his son, nor his em- ployee, know the meaning of an eight hour day. The farmer s time to work is just as long as there is work to be done. The work may be drugery, the man may be awkward, but his sturdy back, his healthy body, his simple l life, have given the strength of mind and body to the sons he has sent out into the world to make their way in other paths of life. It is the strenuous metropolitan 1 life which saps the strength and undermines the nerves. The ev- erlasting push, of active trade, eeaseless competition, struggle for business, greed for dollar, would soon blight and destroy, were it not for the constant infusion of i the rich, pure blood and sound mind and nerve of the country boy who seeks the business or profess ional life of our business centers.
 There is a phase of rural life, , however, which is seldom consid cred in business. In d measure, the farmers life IS more rural than ever before; his home is changed for the better. There Is more com fort, more of education and refine ment than ever, due to the ease of intercourse with the outside world, thanks for 1t belonging to the rail- roads, the vast trolley systems, good roads, quick mails and better schools. But the rural districts are devoted to farming The old country store has disappeared or IS fast disappearing. Many read CT who in boyhood clerked in his village store might find, did he re- turn, the old store still there, un- changed in years; many an article of old stock in the same old place,
 waiting, waiting for the purchaser who never comes.. Country stores, says an exchange, are doomed, their day is past. The farmer passes them on his way to the cen ters of trade farther away, or buys at distance, using the mail for his messenger and the railroad for his horse. He has learned that he, too, may have almost equal shop ping facilities with the city dwell- CT. He can buy without fear, for, whether he sees or not, all sound business o-day requires the un- questioned permission to return any article which the buyer finds unsatisfactory.
 The old methods of barter are gone. The farmer sells his pro- ducts for cash and buys where 1t suits him best. He has learned to
 farm better, to buy better and to sell better. He has learned that
 his hay and corn go to market
 cheaper and more profitably as fat l beef and pork than as hay and
 corn, and thus, they leave the val
 uable manures behind. He has
 learned to grow 50 bushels of
 wheat on ground that formerly
 grew but 25. He has learned that ' berries grown in Florida may be sold at profit in New York, that : California fruits may be sent at 8 . profit to Europe. He is learning that God never intended the water of his springs to run to the ocean : unchecked, or to send the rain on ly when 1t was needed. He is also learning that the wind IS tempered