The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-09-25

1t is only few days since knew that we were to
entertain the Club. l will just say a few words
about the farmer boys. do not think have
heard any thing said about the interests of the
boys since Joined the Club and think the boys
are somethingwe should be very much interested
in as they are very handy about farm. know
that find that out when they not around.
We should give them something for them to get
interested in. When boy has to work and get
nothing for it he loses his interest, but when he
gets paid for it he is interested in his work even
if it is not big pay. ] remember one time when
Mr.. Scarborough borrowed our oxen and wanted
to pay for the use of them and my brother would
take no pay he gave me quarter and 1 thought
it was as big as cart wheel. So you see it does
not take much to interest boy Some people
bring their boys up to think that farming is de-
grading and give them a college education and
some money to spend. The boys who went that
way to school from this neigh borhood did not
amount to much. but those who have earned
their own way came out all right. College
education is all right for we need smart people to
farm as well as in other branches of industry, but
u boy to get this education should earn part of
the money to get it. One way to keep boy
interested is when he gets big enough give him
patch OF ground and let him do as he pleases
with it. II he wants to plant it in corn let him
do so and feed it to hogs and when the hogs are
sold let him have the money to do as he pleases.
do not think he will throw it away, il does not
come that easy.
was in Wilmington few days ago and found
that houses there which rent for twelve dollars
per month have two rooms up and two down and
very small ones at that, no locks on the doors
and no water in the house. The boys who live
in some of these houses drive wagons and carts
anything they can get to do to pay the rent and
live and then not have half enough to eat. These
are the boys who have their own living to make.
think that boys like them would be better off
in the country; they surely could have enough to
eat if they worked like they do in the cities.
My wife thinks this Club is not run as well as
some farmers clubs. At one in Ohio that we read
about in the Agriculturist the farmers take all
their families, each family taking basket and
the women tell about their experiments, as we'll
as the men. The farmers family likes to have a
days pleasure the same as he does.
The members when called upon
to express their opinions in regard
to the views of the, essayist com.
mended it generally with extended
remarks from Messrs. Blake and
Carey, for which vote of thanks
was rendered them.
The following very interesting
and valuable paper was read by
one of the visitors, s. D. Wilson, in
response to a call for remarks
which also called forth vote of
thanks from the Club.
We feel highly honored today as guest of the
Cecil Farmers Club, an organization that has
accomplished much good for the community. 1t
has given us the Farmers Telephone and the
GOOD Road Law" So we say, all honor to the
big hearted, public spirited members of the Cecil
Farmers Club.
| At this busy season when seed time and harvest
are both upon us, it would seem that all are need
ed in the fields, yetin the development of progress
in agriculture there must be systematic, organized
effort to direct the work. Public spirited men
must keep up thee organizations by sometimes
] looking beyond their own individual gain or
convenience. And it is likely they will more
than share in the greater good to the greater
number.
Lack of organization among farmers may be
partly attributed to the more influential going
out OF the business, a competence is secured,
the sons are educated for something else and the
farm is abandoned to uneducated people.
But the farming business is being raised to more
than mere routine of muscular application.
We now have the Agricultural High School to
teach the younger generation the advantage of
farm life and an appreciation of living close to
Nature
! There is room for much more application OF
intelligence TO The business and the study of the
scidnce Of Agriculture is becoming attractive.