Barbour County index., 1909-04-14

class of agriculturists but there f.
perhaps in it attempt to
lesson of cheerfuness a
II \ ! verse circumstances is of as
/ much service on the farm it is in
So the city 1t was said by a Washing
ton official recently who heard this
II letter. that there discour-
K aged ones in the cities. three times
.=-- over than there
From central Ilinos-came a letter
==- which touched on the subject of the
ownership of farms In part 1t is
follows:
a2.sS@=- st wish to add this to nv answer
g9SA@- to the question: What your judg-
4NNEA9SA ment is the single
ES..aN= thing to be done for the general bet
EsssaaSSssAS=- erment of country life? institute
fIENsM propaganda whose purpose shall be
gSa7SNgaa5ZN> 10 preserve American farms for Amer
Sa@GNMn lean farmers, t. e, that the farmer
- W.. who tins the farm should it, 1
:: !: :;
W. the farmers whom 1 a
K<' boy find there has marked and SUBJ
W Slantal Improvement in almost things per
<W%~ lainlng TO farm lfe except 1 find that
while the farmer has better stock better
NNZII1I uools Detter vehicles better bette
X%NN//@ eonVehlences in and around the home better
#NzZII/ clothes and better schools for his children
yet more than so per cent of the farmers do
T not own the farms which they live and that the
TI/ lahd OF the average farm does produce more
f|ZL~ than onehalf much did 1 believe
~ tnat these two things in large nterde-
~ penoent upon each other and effect the
loss OF fertility often being cause of the farm
mortgage winch finally takes the farm original owner
and transfers it who in manv cases ves with b
tenant in taking and putting little hack
upon It, If the number of in the future in
the in the past within 25 TX
of every 100 farms passed out of the
the farmers in the majority return to them
consider this change from ownership to farm the
greatest danger and the farmer but the
greatest danger to the nation as we'll"
Another Illinois man, farmer but teacher of agr;cr,
ture says have made something study of the
of living on the farm have pictures of the best and
poorest houses In the county think solving of the prob
lem will depend given the farmers wife and
children than the farmer Farmers owning of acres
and having yearly incomes of thousands huts
bath hot cold house and no furnace to
heat the house This farmer big painted barns
pure stock. ~ ~
This lack of conveniences the wife must carry
ner water from the Wen and must carry her
her husband would machinery rust in the
hed and accuse her of
pe ho the mousse Houses need not be large but
be arranged and have shrubs
around the house would not require
beauty of the located behind the house
just as easily as they located in front
Educate the farmer boys take advantage modern
provements Teach them agriculture high schools
normal schools and in all visited the
cultural college find that gas engines to pump
water and do the heavy work improved looks of
their home by landscape gardening Have
and drains to carry it All this the
household" - -
Another picture part of farm life in the section
of the Alabama country where lives
THE farmer in this territory has going by four
o'clock m and his employees little earlier Drudgery or
chore work first then the regular farm
work until IL 45 then 80 minutes for din
about then provided no urgent
work such saving of ra attending to
injured harness CALLED repairing and
numerous other ncidsntals of the
This repeated day in throughout the crop
which with all its different
the first OF March to the latter October SUNDAYS
taken with walking doing small re-
pair jobs to fences removing distractions dche
gathering In stray Stock repairing
ming the work for the following
In my opinion the greatest thing that
done for the relief of farmer that
workers is the establishment of very
industrious keep fairly up news of the
outside world whereas neghboood
from some less busy neighbor is all
is of perfectly impossible
the hundreds of thousands
questions the farmers differ greatly
their views of things report
best be gained with the added President
idea of the opinion which
the formed a result of the shifting the
In this connection be out of place give
from the views expressed by the faculty of the Purdue
School Agriculture of experiment
AS to the chief need Of the farmers OF Indiana
meeting writing faculty has
much to Among other things I'VE the
fundamental the farmers Indiana thoroughly
scientific and technical education which
rank and file OF the farmers through both individual
operative effort financial
VIII he of he