The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-30

Congressman j. E. Randall of Louisiana showed
that in almost every instance where water trans
portation is possible it tends to keep down the
rates of railroad transportation Therefore If. by
government aid there could be q full utilization
Of the great water WAYS OF the nation there would
be a national benefit in facilitating freer COM
munication between producer and consumer.
Henry Wallace. of wallace's Farmer, Iowa, said
that ideal farm life is in the country Of small
farms, but the ideal cannot become the actual
until it becomes the profitable 1.-THE ideal dairy
farm is an s0-acre. 20-cow. 125ton silo proposition
L. Whitney Watkins, $500 acre farmer of
Michigan. said that agricultural education has
been one-sided till the farmer is a helpless hap.
hazard salesman forced to sell to spectators and
middlemen at the price they fix. Some of the
greatest accumulations Of capital have come thro
handling the products of the farmers endless toll
The value of farm property has not kept pace with
it's earning power. The agricultural colleges
should have courses in farm economics. largely by
lectures by active men alive to present conditions
Organizing to fix prices is not right or feasible but
there can be combinations-co-op erstion-to apply
the principles of business concentration and econ
omy which apply in other enterprises. Co-opera-
tive creameries packing and canning associations,
shipping organizations and grain elevators are il
Illustrations in this direction. Without some such
form of cooperation the small farms must event
ually be absorbed into larger establishments. The
oversight that will manage 100 acres will as well
manage 200. The machinery needed for 100 acres
will do the work on 200. Labor, teams aud other
expenses for 900 not double what they are
for 100. 1t is easier to hire good men to work on
larger farm, and there is less necessity of having
strangers in the family circle. The products of
the larger farm can be sold to better advantage.
Elk. Governor s. R. Van SAINT, OF Minnesota
said that the development of agriculture has
Jagged behind that of every other industry or
business Our country will eventually decline if
we encourage the young men to desert the farm
for the factory. We can raise four times as much
produce on the same land as we do now. We
must intensity our farming.
Ralph q. Searle, of Edgar, Nebraska, said the
scientific farmer is no longer ridiculed. The
agricultural colleges are responsible for the recent
wonderful progress In American farming methods.
They are revolutionizing the worlds great in
dustry. They have raised farming from life OF
drudgery to the dignity of a profession. But the
agricultural college has hardly begun to fulfil Its
mission of usefulness. Never before in the his
tory of the world has the need for educated
farmers been so great.
Gov. Cummings of Iowa, said that what farm |
ers have to sell must be sold under the force of
full competition. They have right to ask that |
competition shall be enforced in what they bay. |
The railroads are as essential to our life as rain
and sunshine, but the government must prescribe |
a reasonable rate, so adjusted that each COM
munity and individual shall have fair and even
chance Again: it Is as much the duty of the
government to open and defend the foreign mar
kets for farmers as tor manufacturers. A steer
that would sell in Chicago for four cents Id.
sells in Germany at fifteen cents-owing to the
folly of two nations.
The resolutions adopted favored liberal
policy by the national government in improving
rivers and harbors; an appropriation by Congress
for farmers institute Investigations making
bureau of the national dairy division; an extern
sion of the parcels post system and CONSOLE
dation of Sd and 4th classes of mail matter; ex
perimenting with a local parcels post on some
rural free delivery routes reciprocity treaties to
secure enlarged foreign markets for farm pro-
ducts; an extension of teaching agriculture and
domestic science in the public schools; govern.
ment aid to good roads: removal of some of the 4
restrictions on manufacturing denatural alcohol;
legislation against stock gambling making rail-
road rates so low that roads can pay dividends
only on reasonable capitalization. Another reso-
luton condemned the present system of free seed
'dAsulbueAOh'
The paper was listened to With
interest and much favorable com.
ment was made.
Messrs. Balderston, Cherry and
McVey were appointed committed
of inspection of premises and an
adjournment was then taken for
dinner.
The dinner, as the committee re.
ported, was even above the high av.
erage and like the hosts milk tested
top notch; although different testers
than the Babcock were used thelI
results showed the same from the
opinions expressed.
After viewing the premises the
club reassembled and the committee
reported had noted a beautiful
grandfather clock which the host
told them was of modern construc-
ton although of antique design, it
having supplanted one of ancient
manufacture with much more salts
faction when one wished to ascer.
tain the time. A fine herd of
Holsteins in an adjoining field were
supposed to belong to the premises,
but Mr.. Reynolds said he had rec
emily disposed of his dairy herd at
a good price and had not yet again
stocked up, having at present only
three cows, which were fine Jerseys
with calves. A cozy workshop,
nicely arranged wagon house and
corn elevator received favorable
comment. Two full cribs of corn,
of the yellow and white varieties,
attested to the yield of 100 bushels
to the acre. The stables were con.
veniently arranged, with double
row of cow stalls. Plenty of fodder,
hay and other provender in barn
and two stacks of straw, four fine
hogs, gray colt, "the finest pair