Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-02-01
Possibilities and Prob
abilities Of Farm Life
in Cherry County.
Farm ers Who Make the Mast
of. Their Opportunities
Will he Successful.


WTlGUcH ny IT,. M. IeLGyCroW, son
Of j. f. Pettycrew of North Table,
regarding the possibilities and prob
abilities of farm life in Cherry
county if farmers and their sons
became students of their profess
sion and seek to make the most of
their opportunities in farming.
Read the article and imbibe new
thoughts of the value of Cherry
county soil when handled in an
advantageous manner.
Out on the rolling prairies of
Cherry county, built on gentle
slope, is home whose
size makes apparent the economy
with which it had to be built, but
whose attractive appearance that
holds the attention of the passerby
tells of the trained aesthetic loving
eye that planned it. In front is a
wide, spacious lawn, bordered on
each side in circular manner by
ornamental shrubs, at whose feet
are many kinds of beautiful flow
ers and foliage plants. To the
north is an orchard covering two
acres of ground, whose tidy and
thrifty appearance speak for the
intelligence with which it is looked
after. To the south is a small
garden patch. In the background,
partially shaded from view by a
group of box-elder trees, are the
out-buildings. In these barnes and
pens are to be found the hogs, the
sheep, the cattle and the horses
which the farm supports. Each
in their own way appearing to be
conscious that their names and
pedigree are to be found in the
great herd books. Fartherest back
are the poultry houses and yards,
a few of them taking in the orch
ard, whose tidy we'll kept condit-
ion shows how well the owner
realizes the value of his feathered
friends.
The ear catches the sound of
quick, sharp explosions that signi-
fly the presence of a gasoline en-
CINE which is placed in shed ad-
joining the corncrib and granary
where its power is so curbed and
utilized that it runs the tools of
small blacksmith shop, a bone
smasher which breaks up the bones
which the farmer feeds his chick
ems, the corn shelter, the grinder,
the grain elevator, the tanning
mill, the dynamo which furnishes
electric lights for the house, and
lastly, it runs the pump that fills
the big tank north of the orchard
with water, from which it is car
ried by system of water works
to the house, barns and poultry
yards; also from which it is let in
to system of underground thing,
which irrIgates the orchard, the
lawn and the small garden patch.
Is this a dream impossible to
the soil and climte of Cherry coun-
ty! A scene so frequently met
with in other parts of the country.
Is it an air castle, which it would
be shame to instill into the minds
of our young farmers and ranch
men! For after years of hard strug-
gle it would have to be given up,
a failure! | think not.
To create in the minds of our
youths a high ideal of what the
home on the farm should be, and
instruct them in the knowledge of
how it can be accomplished, is one
OF the objects of our State Agri-
cultural school.
Plainly are they shown that such
4 home is not the growth of
moment, but a thing to be enjoyed
after years of hard toll. But not,
the humdrum, monotonous labor
that is allotted to the man whose
only hopeful sign of reward are
results of his past attempts, which
he repeats with careful exactness,
never daring to deviate from the