Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-04-28

~ class of agrcuurists but there 4.
p.inaps In 1t an attempt to teach a
lesson of cheerfulness I'D.
NJ verse circumstances Is OF just a.
y he farma Il in
- . .ne 'ay IL was said by Washing.
"A ton official recently who heard this
|, II letter that there dscour.
aged cities three times
=-=----- over. than there are on farms.
From central Illinois a tier
S-=-- which touched on the subject o %
ownership OF farms In II is
follows
to add this to my answer
sy2SA@ to the question: What iudg
{fTLA ment Is the Important single
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ssa3sSs$S3IIA to preserve American farms
, wSo t lSr"e ,hs ,. e. that that the farmer
::
W santial improvement in al things per
\MZ @ .n TO farm life except two hnd that
MM ~ while the farmer has better live stock
tools better vehicles. better buildings better
RX%Z//LES convenences In he home better
VyI/<I/ clothes and better schools for his children
MNI/Z 49,. YET more than 90 per cent of the o
xH not own the farms which they i've and that the
L% than rh e average arm does not produce
H that these two things large measure interde
w pendent upon each other and effect the
loss Of fertility often being the cause OF the farm
mortgage which finally its original owner
anu Transfers to landlord who in
tenant In taking much from the farm putting little back
upon It. II the number of rented farms in
ceases In the ratio within rs years rs
of have passed out OF the ownersh, q,
the majority cases never to return to them
consider this change ownership to farm enantry the
greatest danger not only &c the farm
Another Illinois man, not farmer agricu
eHre; says: nave made something Of study
OF living on the farm have pictures the best and
poorest houses in the solving Of the prob
children Farmers owning hundreds Of acres
and having yearly incomes OF thousands hutH
neat the house This farmer always painted barns
and bred
mems tho o rnr ,.u-v
her water from the well and must sop
her $500 worth of machinery rust In the
field and her of have water
piped into the house Houses need be
be better arranged and have
the house would not require and would add the
Just as easily as they now located in
Teach agriculture in their high schools
normal schools and in all visited
water and do the heavy work Tbev have .S 10 PUMP
their home by landscape gardening house
and drains to carry away All this
household"
Another picture part of farm life in the section
Of the Alabama country where g lives
THE this be nv
o'clock M and his employees little earlier Drudgery
choe work s and then the field other regular farm
work until 114S then 30 and In As
ner and then back again until work sup
work such saving of threatening rain attending TO
injured harness repairing fences and
numerous other ncidentals OF the
This is repeated day throughout the crop
season which with all its different
taken with walking re-
pair jobs to fences removing drainage bitches
gathering In stock repairing
ming the work for the following
I'm opinion the thing any government has
this relief
workers is the establishment of
industrious keep fairly up OF
outside
from less neighbo heard before"
II is OF perfectly impossible adequate
Of the hundreds of thousands
questions put by the commission greatly
In their views of things report
best be gained with the
idea the opinion which
the answers formed result OF the shifting of the
In this connection II OF place
from the views
School Of Agricute and of the staff of the experiment.
~ the chief need Of the farmers indiana md
of meeting the official writing faculty
much Among other things he believe he
fundamental the is thoroughly
general scientific and technical education
rank aad file Of the through both individual
effort,
while fully maintaining fertility soil.
The writer faculty say should