Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09

profitable and the ideal life to dsyel- (
op the wholesome individual. No
millionaire can live as well as the
successful farmer on small areage, /
when we consider that it is not what
money one mas. but what he is de-
veloping to be in a contented.
healthy wholesome life, best afford
ed on the successful farm.
Rapid progress has been made
in the farmers behalf. when we con-
slider the short period in the past
epoch which evolutionied the prin-
ciples of agriculture. Beginning
with the period of new discoveries
of agricultural chemistry, improved
machinery and hybridization. it
ended with the Transformation of
the greater profit being produced on
the small farm Thus we begin
new epoch with thought as farm cap
ital, transforming the farms Of the
country from being bound by its
acreage to a capacity Of maximum
production by intelligent effort.
Every encouragement afforded
the farmer establishes the wisdom
of any expenditure to advance the
cause of agriculture, especially
when it extends the acreage of the
country by making it grow in ca
pacity to produce maximum crops,
thus solving the food problem of the
nation and supplying the demand for
rural homes.
The thought required and the in
SEPARATION which comes to one who
on 40 acres can raise a yield which
with ordinary farming would require
100 or32O acres. is the key that will
animate and dominate ambition for
life on the farm AS against extern
sive, the thought to-day is intensive
intelligent farming.
This word intensive has elevat-
ed the farmer from the poem of
"Markham's Man with the Hoe" to
the student seeking an opportunity
to exercise thought, and while yet
afforded relief in association with
natures reconstructive forces. away
from the congested city and machine
grind of commercial requirements,
to apply the science and business
methods of to-day on the farm.
The small farm with it's intensive
practice is appealing to the thought
of the country, because of it's attract
i've feature, not only as an invest
, ment, but because of the business
opportunity, affording one a perma-
nent Independent position, reward
ing ability with profit at the home
door yard.
The time Will soon pass for the
farmer to pioneer for home and
cause his family misery by privation
and hardships. The government
can best and should do the pioneer
ing, especially in developing a sec
ton fit for settlement The gov
eminent has already recognized this
feature by the reclamation and
drainage of lands, and in many in
stances has transformed private
holdings to lands of value.
Thus we enter a new era when the
government takes the initiative so
as not to retard the development Of
industries essential to the immedi-
ate needs of the nation 1t opens
new channels for investment for the
capitalist and small investor, and
an opportunity for the state to CO.
operate with capital to have the land
and agricultural value of a section
established, and especially essential
when the conveniences are included
for the comfort and prosperity Of
those who settle there for homes.
The farm land that has the great
est value is the small acreage near
the centers of population, or such as
is producing a permanent staple
commercial crop, establishing an in
terest revenue that regulates the val
ne.
Land values are greatest where
the commercial interests of com
munity are common and more SC
when the products are regulated and
protected by organization, and this