New-York tribune., 1907-01-27
OF THE FARMER
By ]. H. S N YD E r

call physician; or in case of fire. he can sum
mon help His family too IS much safer the
assistance of ncighborS being promptly procurable
II danger of any kind threatens and it said that
already the average tramp has become wary of
entering farm house where he knows there Is a
telephone. The bcnchCcnt httG instrument makes
end forever OF the loneliness which hitherto has
luxury so inestimabe is actually furnished for
nothing IN many places, the butcher the grocer
IN the nearby town paying the rental of the inStru-
ment tor any customer whose patronage amounts
to twenty-five dollars monthly.
As means of keeping the agriCulturiSt IN
touch with the world large, the system oi rural
free delivery surpaSSes even the telephone and IS
justly to be regarded the greatest boon ever
bestowed upon the farming population of this
country 1t IS conducted at almost no cost 10 the
Government, practically paving for itself
The system does not merely bring to the farmer
his letters every day. but provides him also with
daily newspaper containing the latest market and
crop reports and all sorts of fresh information that
IS of value to him. Vt provides his entire family
with unlimited quantities of excellent reading mat
ter OF all kinds, such as may be obtained in these
days at a cost OF next to nothing. In the widest
sense, 1T affords whereby intelligence is
dittused; and, thanks to the education thus OBJ
tanned the agricuturist is enabled to improve his
methods to produce larger and better crops and To
sell his products for more money
Farm Women Study Styles
HlS wife subscribes to fashion journal, which
furnishes her with the latest STYLES and patterns
that she and her children also are better dressed
than they used to be But these of course are only
a few of the benefits conferred by the opportunity
of communication with the outside world which IS
represented by the neat little painted box attached
TO a post IN company with dozen others like II at
the junction of the nearby cross roads
The farmer in these latter DAYS has come to he \
user OF electricity extensive scale Along
the trolley lines which fairly grdiron some parts Of
the country-as for example in Indiana and Ohio
and in sections of Pennsylvana-the rural residents
are supplied by side wires with a current which
they utilize for n great variety of PURPOSES Thus
In such regions finds the ingenious agrcult11rist
no longer a "haySeed" but an uD to date citizen
OF the Notwithstanding his dwelling and barns
with incandescent lights, and in MANY instances
employing electricity power for running Churns
fans and sewing machines
In speaking of the trolley however, one refers 10
mechanical contrvanCe which in itself has been
an enormous blessing to the farmers For one thing
1T has enabled them to travel frequently whereas
IN former days they seldom went far away from
home 1t the rural resident happens To be not far
from an electric road he and his wife and dauqbters
instead of being obliged TO go a long distance in
order to reach railway station can steD aboard
the cars at any time almost at their door and be
whisked TO the village few miles of or even TO
the distant city
Much freight and express business is now done,
by the trolley companies which transport back and
1orth between town and country much of the mer-
chandlse which formerly was conveyed bv wagon
service OF tins kind has proved an immense con-
Venlence To the farmers, who are thus enabled not
only TO get their dry goods and groceries from the
city easily and quickly, but also TO send their pro-