The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

have their own fruits, vegetables, butter, pork and eggs.
 | The improved facilities of transporta- | ton, the suburban trains, together with
 the nterurban lines, make it possible
 in many cases for the business man to 1 live in the country and do business in the
 city.
 Five years ago l foresaw that this | condition of things was inevitable. l saw
 what was coming. so l hurried from the
 city and bought a beautiful country | home where we can have all the com ! forts of life without having to be at
 the mercy of high prices for farm prod : ucts.
 Buying Home.
 | This brings up another thought. Often
 hear men who are working on good sal aries say that no man in this age of the world working on salary will ever be able to pay for a home. l do not hesitate in tiatly denying this statement. Eight | years ago 1 commenced working for my i present employers, the Rock Island Frisco railroad company on very mod crate salary. Out of my salary I man. aged to live and to pay for nice coun- try home. But if I had spent my time and money running to all the ball games, 1 theatres and other foolish things that came along, if l had been trying to smoke up all the vile cigars and to drink up all the beer in every town where l have gone, I could not have bought a home either. Nor is this all. l sold my time, services and good will to my em- ployers and I labor hard to goive full value for everything that they do for me.
 Now, l do not make mention of all this to boast of myself or what I have done but only give my experience as an object lesson as to what the possi- bilities are in this country for laboring man.
 | believe that the time has come in our country when faithful service is ap- preciated and when the laborer may be paid in full for services rendered. This is especially true of the man who works on the farm.
 Here is a case thhat came under my observation last week, which serves IS an index of what is going on every day in all parts of our country. farmer needed a man: he found a young man who said he was anxious for work and wanted s30 per month. The farmer said this was rather a high price for farm labor, but that he would hire him at | that price if he would look after the farmers interest. He would not have to work at night and his board was the same as that of the farmers family. The trade was made and the first thing the young man wanted the farmer to ad- vance him some money with which to buy clothes Now here was young man who has been working for himself ten years and not enough money to buy a pair of shoes. nat is such man worth on farm or anywhere else? The -el- low worked a week, went away on Sat urday night and has never shown up since and the farmer is five dollars to the bad. Such expereces are numerous all over the country and while many such might me mentioned. vet I must get back more closely to my subject
 Improved Machinery. Improved machinery Is doing much to relieve the farmers on the labor question: Visiting the Iowa state fair last week. where there is always a great display of farm implements and looking these over, l found that the farm implement manufacturers are carrying out the very same ideas in the Improvements on farm
 implements that have been urged in this paper from time to time. Our readers know that the writer of these articles predicted long go that the one horse farmer of this country must soon become relic of the past. This paper has shown that more horse power was ! needed on the farms. This is one of the things that is going to help solve the labor problem. The display of farm im- plements as shown at the Iowa state ldl all punt III lllS uiittlloD anu SnOW that the manufacturers are preparing for the change.
 Object Lessons.
 Now just q few object lessons to show our readers what is going on. Improved farm implements now used enable the corn growers of Kansas and Nebraska to cultivate 16o acres of corn with four horses. l know a Ncbra ska farmer who did this very thing last year and his crop of corn averaged nearly sixty bush els per acre But put the crop at an average of fifty bushels per acre and
 we have 5000 bushels of corn to he gathered. Now leo bushels per day is d good days husking for a man so that il would take this man eighty days to shuck his crop of corn and this he could not nffard to do. he was at the mercy of hired men and these he could not get, although ho offered five cents
 per busheel for huskers. ,he result was that much of his corn went to waste Manufacturers of farm implements begin to see the folly of making farm imple- , ments by which the farmer may produce such large crops and at the same time leave the farmer at the mercy of unrelia- he help in getting his crops gathered, At the Iowa state fair find a man with corn husker so that the Nebra ska | farmer may take his four horses that cultivated his corn. hitch them to this corn husker and in a few days have his corn all in shelter. While he is doing this. the worthless. shiftless la horers can continue to loaf away their time. The Texas cotton farmer can now | take four horses and the improved cot ton implements and cultivate 12o acres of cotton. But where Is the help to come from to pick this seventy-ive to one | hundred bales of cotton? For several years thousands of pounds of good cotton have gone to waste for want of help to
 
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