Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-12
Agricultural Meetings Discuss
Problem Of Keeping Boys
on the Farm
THE CITY LIFE coNrAMINATEs
Editor coIlinswood, Of New York, and
President A. 3. stickney, Of the
Great Western, Among tho Princi
pal speakers-compares Rural and
City Life.
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Des Moines, Dec. Eff New York
City was suddenly transferred and
placed in the middle of Iowa 1t would
make a magnificent market for your
farm products, but would be the great
est calamity to the state that could
happen. The farmer boy of the east
in attempting to ape the wealthy of the
city Is corrupted This was the state
ment of H. w Collingwood. editor of
the Rural New Yorker at the state
farmers institute.
"Your greatest asset is your agricul-
tural interests and in developing them
you should strive to keep the farmer
boy on the farm. Try to induce the
farmers of Iowa to divide their farms
into small farms and place a son on
each farm. Cultivate intensive farm
ing" This was the statement Of Pres
ident A. B. Stickney of the Great
Western before the boosters commit
Tee OF DeS MONIES.
The speeches were delivered stimuli
taneously and neither speaker knew
what the other was saying. And at the
same hour over in the meeting OF the
State Horticultural Society meeting,
two or three speakers mentioned the
problem of keeping the farmer boy on
the farm as being one of the big
problems of farm life.
Editor Callingwood came all the way
Iowa that their greatest and most i'm
portant crop is children. His topic
was Development of Eastern Agri-
culture" but he talked more on raising
children than anything else He said
that the eastern farmer boy becomes
'enainored of city life and in an attempt
to ape the rich of the city gets a S6 a
week job in the city and boards at
home, being known as commuter. He
carries a dress suit case to the city
each day with him and has the case
plastered with the marks of foreign
customs houses to make it look tray
eled" Inside the suit case is two sand
wiches and piece of pie and after eat
tng them for his lunch he goes out and
stands on the Aster House steps and
picks his teeth. The farmer girl car
ries her lunch to town in a music roll
when she isn't able to play the Tune
the Old Cow Died On
He said that shadow hung over the
development of the local markets. That
if disease should kill off all the cattla
and stock of every kind in the state OF
Iowa the state would soon recover bur
"let moral blight fall on the child
crop and God pity the state He de-
clared that he would rather live on COW
peas and baked beans all his life and
raise his children in the fear of God
than to have all the Rockefeller's mil
lions, and the farmers at the institute
cheered him long and loud.
Mr.. Collingwood talked about few
other things than raising children. He
told the western farmers that the east
ern farmer is putting high priced fer
talizer on cheap land and making mon
ey. He told the western farmers that
they are too prosperous and that more
adversity would teach them greater
lessons on the cultivation of the soil.
He told them that in one small locality
in New York 100000 worth of western
grain was purchased and consumed. He
told them it was not bought except it
was to turn it into profit and that
these farmers fed the grain to Wyan-
dotte hens and sold the eggs for so
cents dozen and that one man from
600 hens had sold $500 worth of eggs
and that this 100000 worth of western
grain was turned into $4,000 worth of
eggs alone and large amount of poul-
try was sold besides. He emphasized
the statement that the western farmer
is making more profit from Wyandotte
hens than the western farmer raising
cattle He also told them how the
Maryland farmer on light sandy soil
is sowing winter wheat in October
harvesting the crop in June and sowing
COW peas which are cut up on the
ground with disc cultivators just be-
fore another wheat crop is sown.