The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05

> FIVE, at a spot cash price, would take
Russia from the ear.
"Talk Of swollen fortunes! With
the setting of every sun the money
box of the American farmer bulges
with the weight of uwsnty-four new
millions. Only the most athletic
can conceive of such torrent OF
wealth.
"Place your finger on the pulse OF
your wrist, and count the heartbeats
one-two-three-four. With every
four of those quick throbs, day and
n:get, a thousand dollars ciatters in
to the gold.bin Of the American
farmer.
"Hew ineomprehensible it would
seem to Pericles. who saw Greece
in her Golden Age. If he could know
that the yearly revenue of his count
~ is now no more than one days
pay for the men who till the soil Of
this infant republic!
cor. how it would amaze resur-
rected Christopher Columbus if he
were told that the revenues Of Spain
and Portugal are not nearly as much
as the earnings of the American
farmers hen!
"Merely the crumbs that drop
from the farmers table otherwise
known as agricultural experts have
brought him In enough of foreign
money since 1892 to enable him, If
he wished, to settle the railway prob
lem once for all, by buying every
foot of railroad in the United States.
"Such Is our New Farmer-a man
for whom there is no name in any
language. He is as far above the
farmer of the story-books as a 1908
touring-car Is above a jinrikisha.
Instead Of being an ignorant hoeman
in barnyard world. he gets the
news by daily mail and telephone;
and incidentally publishes 100 trade
journals of his own. Instead of be.
ing a moneyless peasant, he pays
the interest ON the mortgage with
the earnings of a week. Even this
is less of an expense than it seems,
for he borrows the money from him
self. out Of his own banks. and
spends the bulk ofthe tax money
around his own properties.
Charming for a business, not for
living this is the motif of the new
farmer. He is commercialist
man Of the twentieth century. He
works as hard as the old farmer did
but in higher way. He uses the
four Ms-miAd, money, machinery
and muscle; but as little of the latter
as possible.
Neither is he johnson Crusos
of the soil, as the old farmer was.
His hermit days are over; he is .
man am ong men. The railway the
trolley, the automobile and the top
buggy have transformed him into
suburbanite, In fact. his business
has become so complex and many
sided that he touches civilization al
more points and lives larger life
than il he we're one of the atoms OF
a crowded city.
SCIENCE IN FARMING
"To day the new farmer 6nds him
self touched BY science ON all sides.
He knows that there are mere living
things In one pinch OF rich soil than
there are people on the whole globe.
He knows that he can take a half
dozen handsful Of earth from differ.
ent parts Of his farm, mix them to-
getherf send one tAimbleful to q
chemist, and end out exactly tie
kind Of crop that will give him the
best harvest. And more, now that
science has given him a peep into
natures factory, he can even feel a
sense of kinship between himself
and his acres, because he knows that
the same elements that redden his
blood are painting the green hues
on his fields and forests.
"There are now IS, 600 NV far.
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