Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-16

put up DuliOlHSS. IL IldhtS n ilitt dudi-
ton to smart town. All the states are
giving more or less attention to agricul-
tural education, and our people are de-
termined that the young farmer shall be
educated toward the farm instead of away
from ii, as heretofore
There is no great call for lawyers and
doctors noW?'
Intelligent Farming Pays.
THE average brakeman on railway
train gets better wages than the aver
age doctor or lawyer, but every farmer
does not succeed and everybody who lives
on land is not a farmer. There are differ
ent grades of farmers. The man who
owns his land and has it well stocked
with domestic animals is making money
right along. The renter, who rents land
and owns no animals at all, but grows
grain and sells it, has also been doing
well, but grain has been bringing high
prices, but he does not make as much as
the man who owns his farm and raises
domestic animals. The farmers in the
eastern states, where people have farmed
poorly and let the lands run down. have
had struggle for life. For that reason
a good deal Of land in the New England
states has been abandoned. The cheapest
lands in the United States now are in the
eastern states. They can be revived, and
when people ask my opinion as to where
they shall go I say: Go back east Do
not go west Some of the prairie lands
of the west are selling for $50 per acre.
Have the farmers money!"
Farmers Money Caused Panic.
Eyes. That is most interesting ques-
ton. They have SO much money that
they do not know what to do with it.
They don't like to keep it in their houses.
so they put it in the local banks and
the banks send it on east. Eastern cities
New York. for example-gave them !
or per cent interest and that drew all
the money in the country to New York
last year and the people went to speculat-
ing with it. That is what brought on the
panic. The banks lost the confidence of
their own depositors. who took the money
out, and the trouble began
THE farmhOuses in most of the prairie
states now have all the conVeniences
that people need, and they are getting
toward the luXuries. The farmers ar
even buying automobiles. The men who
make money on the farm are those who
stock their farms with domestic animals,
They know how to do it. II is not the
fellow who rents and grows grain and
sells grain: it is the man who has d com
pletely equipped farm that makes money.
1t requires just as much ability to run
farm successfully as a factory, because
prehensive. If you give a man a lot of
land that does not necessarily make a
farmer of him.
Helping Poor Farmers.
This department is trying to help the
poor people For example, our attention
was called to the southern farmers, both
black and white, about the time the boil
weevil came in. We have been down
there ever since trying to help them i'm
prove their crops. We are showing them
how to farm better And the SOllfb
making more progress just now than any
other part of the United States. Thu
agriculture of the south is making great
strides We are in touch with 100000
southern farmers, and are showing them
how to grow more cotton, how to grow
more grain. and how to make a better 1iv-
ing on the farm. When they become
satisfied that we are not revenue officers,
that we don't want anything from them,
and that they get the results of the ex-
periments, they make us welcome.
What do the farmers of the west want
in the way of tariff revision?"
Farmer Needs Retaliatory Tariff.
81 don't think the farmers of the west
feel the tariff. I don't believe they would
notice any changes that might be made
in the rates of duty on the articles they
consume. / have not heard that they
want any particular changes made, but l
want something done on their account. l
want maximum and minimum tariff
All the countries of continental Europe
apply their maximum tariffs against our
farm products. They want more of their
factory goods to come in here and they
say, If you don't allow them to come, we
will apply our maximum tariff against
your grain and meats; and by doing
they have substantially cut US out of the
markets of continental Europe. Retalia-
ton is an ugly word, but ] fear We will
have to use it. If they continue to shut
out our farm products by their tariffs
and custom house regulations, we shall
have to shut out their factory goods.
Practically all of the continental coun-
tries of Europe have embargoes on our
meats, while we take everything they
send us unless it is adulterated or mis-
branded"
ing?"
"Admirably.'