Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-11
FUTURE 0F IH[ FARAER
The Most Promising and Most
Interesting Man In America
Today
ONE LIVE STOCK MANS VIEWS
Address of Hon. |. H. Kerrick. of
Bloomington, H., an Important Fea-
ture of Closing Session of the Iowa
Stock Breeders Association at Ames
The Small Farm.
ONE LIVE STOCK MANS VIEWS
to Times Republican.

| Specia! to Times Republican.
| Ames. Jan. 1.-THE closing session
| of the iowa Stock Breeders Association
was held in the chapel of the Iowa State
College Saturday evening. The address
of the evening was by Col. w. A. Harris
| who Is said to be the founder of the
| Shorthorn breed of cattle. His trend
OF thought was almost altogether
along the line of the breeding of Short
| horns.
AT the close of the session officers
| We're elected as follows for the ensuing
year: President-E. NJ. Wentworth.
State Center; vice-presdent, George III.
Burge, Mt. Vernon; secretary of the
treasury. Professor Kennedy. Ames:
district presidents. b. r. Vale.
Bonaparte; g. /. Nichols, West Liberty:
II. j. Hess, Waterloo; A. NJ. Avery.
Mason City: F.. ID. Tomson, Cedar Rap
ids; II. c. Wallace. Des Moines: j. b.
Harsh, Creston; Charles Fischer. Jr..
Botana E. II. White. Estherviile: S.
r. Haines. Storm Lake; II. d. Nichols.
Newton.
The association also voted an APP
preparation of $1,000 to be used in
furthering the interests of the organi-
cation.
The principal address on Friday ev-
ening was made by the Honorable L. II.
! kerrick. OF Bloomington. H., who is
perhaps one OF the best known live
stock men and Aberdeen Angus breed
ers in the United States. Mr.. Kerrick
| is not only breeder and a feeder. but
successful lawyer as well. and his re-
marks are of unusual interest because
of the success and high standing OF the
| speaker.
The Farmer.
MIR. kerrick said, in part: The
young farmer is the most promising
and most interesting man in America
| today. He is the man OF the future,
and when we compare agricultural
conditions prevailing eight or ten years
ago with the conditions existing now.
as exemplitied in this marvellous gath
ering OF men. both young and old. at
the greatest agricultural college in the
world, we feel that it is beyond human
effort to forecast the possibilities of
| the future to imperial agriculture.
I'm most other callings OF life there
are enough and to spare of young men
and women who have been trained for
their particular callings: but the field
! Of agriculture is yet practically I'M
touched. One of the most important
| facts of the last two decades is that
an astounding number of young men
| and women have left the calling Of ag-
| riculture to which they were born ami
| bred. and have gone into other lines
of work where they were needed. The
tide is turning, we are now at the
beginning of new epoch. This Ia
| manifested in part by the great aud
fence see before me tonight. The new
era Is one In which men and women
are to have more OF the real comforts
and blessings OF life by returning to
| farming. the noblest occupation known
| to man.
The Small Farm.
ANY country Is growing weather.,
more productive and better as Its lands
are subdivided into smaller farms. The
|
free man: and no matter how small
his farm. he is great mana great
farmer-if he believes in his calling
and is proud Of the fact that he is a
| farmer.
II believe the best results in agri-
culture will eventually be worked out
on the small farm. On large farm
| we must work at arms length. and
| cannot do as well as we know how to
| do. for we must work thru other men,
| and the men who work on large farms
are not the men who are brainy.
shrewd and mproving-they are no.
of this type have had an idea lately
the first for four or five y5ars-if a
man has an idea that Is really worth
| while. even once In tour or five years.
he will be doing well; and In outlining
| this idea would start with this pre-
mise:
..,rhe farmer Is the man who ought
TO be surest of all the necessities and
comforts of life and safest from all
changes. panics, hard times, and other
yicissitudes In the farm home child
rem can be better bred. better fed. and
better prepared for the struggle of
life.
1T seems to me that the first thing
YOU should do is to surround your
selves in farm homes. with everything
that will be conducive to your COM
fort and welfare. Spend less energy
in producing something to sell and
more in producing something that will
add to the comforts of farm life. Spend
more energy In your orchards and gar
dens produce first the things you
need, be it fruits, vegetables or meats;
then after you have fortified yourself
In your farm fort, let the other fellow
| have any surplus. If he will pay your
....t., f,r n Won can solve this prOb-