The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-06
Some Pointed as Well
as Eloquent Comment
on Current Events ::

1.-The country today is ignorant farm
ing; that such farming is wasting the
feItiIit; and other natural resources
nf the country at a terrible rate. Sure
y the country is starving Cor men VINO
broadly and truly know what they
are doing on the farm, as well as else
where
! wish some of our sprightly young
men might read this and then think
LF tout il until they dream dreams AMI
see visions.
Every agricultural school in the
United States Is clamOring for men,
or rather the people are knocking at
their doors for trained men Prof
Rolls of OFT agricultural college told
n y the other day that they could not
begin &c supply the demand. Alabama
Cn!.eges are the same. Georgia ditto,
ameS college in Iowa. the pioneer az
TICUlturaI college in practical as we'll
as theCI etiCal agriculture. has doZ-
I'll applications for every man. TIE
Jerartm at Wisconsin university
report. the same condition. as also
Cornell! of New York the agricultu-
lal department of the United States
government is employing thousands OF
y:suHG men at lucrative salaries and
on the alert for thousands more, who
are equipped Cor leadership in this
ever growing field The demonstra-
ton work of the south, sustained by
the Rockefeller Fund, is shy of men
SIMPLY because the right ones cannot
be found.
The man is wanted.
I;ut he must be equipped for high
est service. ANY old stick for the
farm is a sentiment long dead and
IrieG The farmer today must be
Mil of brains. of energy, and of great
executive ability. He must know
soils and their treatment of plant
lie and its elements, animal nature
ind its needs, machinery and its man
a"ement. 1t is day of great things,
Grt at waterways, great railroads,
great engineering. steam, electricity,
wireless telegraphy, aeroplaninS
Eot;ing too great for man to aspire
Unto--in short, it is the age of mind
over matter.
And in no place with this mastery
OF the material make for the good of
MAJ more than in the tilling of the
sol At the bottom of all is agricul-
tuJe Little wonder then that it has
awakened with the cry of the new,
and demands a hearing.
But while this is so, does the reader
know just what it means to change
from the old to the new, to introduce
letter equipments: to utilize up-to-
datc machinery, to secure any but the
old type of one-rule scooter work
Crs: To equip a farm in an up-to-
date manner right here now requires
about as mucn thought and cores
pondence as to build a Dreddnaught
ON the edge of our beautiful lake. Ev-
cry thing imported, from stump puller
TO Weeder, from tbresher to drill, and
all as rev and strange to the man be-
hind as the Garden of the Gods Yet
these things will come, are coming,
and soon will come fast. and workers
will come too No wonder the man
uirh noe" was sad and discouraged,
Y ith the great earth before him and
only mis- two hands to subdue it, No
-vonder the ambitious took another
read; no wonder fortune smiled in
o. heT directions. no wonder the re-
tmns we're pitiably small and penury
sai or the door step.
Hut some day the other fellow VIII
smile. Western Florida is bound to
he Fich agricultural country and let
MIN who wishes TO laugh in his sleeve.
! | car hear him now Nevertheless
| il Will come.
The good roads bill | believe has
passed.. e., the one affecting the
/ counties in our senatorial district.
Uckv dogs we are 10 live in this dis
;1;ct How we will lift our eyebrows
a 'NOu'Uns" when we get sailing over
our fine roads and you still blowing in