Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-01-14
ROSY OUTLOOK
FOR THE FARMER
Unprecedented Demand For
Products of Soil Boosts
Prices to the Top Notch.

Bandy, Va. Jan. 10, 1910. MIR.
Editor: While the country In gem
eral is enjoying n degree of prosper
ity greater and wider distributed
than ever before experienced, IL Is
well TO consider future prospects, fu-
ture certainties and uncertainties,
and IL possible, summarize the fac
tors that will affect the business
affairs of the coming years.
lt Is agreed that the tendency of
civilization for centuries, and espec-
tally the last past and present CEN
tury, is toward increase i'm the urban
populations, and that the demand of
the cities upon the agricultural pro-
ductions has more than doubled In
quantity per capita during the past
one hundred years.
This increase in the population OF
the cities and towns, aud the in
crease I'm their per capita demand for
the products of the farms has pro-
duced an extraordinary rise In the
values of agricultural productions.
This rise has been accentuated dur
ing the last ten years.
Some statisticians place the ad-
vance i'm value at 90 per cent since
1886 on the average of all the pro-
ducts of the farms, and this i'm the
face of the largest average production
that the soil has ever yielded in the
United States.
1t Is not probable that the maxi
mum numbers Of our city population
have been reached, noI will their
demand for the products of the farms
cease to increase.
Even with the immense crops OF
all kinds this year the high cost OF
living is telling against the total OF
the hi gh standard OF earnings of the
wage worker or the fixed salary en-
ploye.
The argriculturists Of the United
States are the persons who have dur
ing the last ten years created the
creates. surpluses 10y their great earn
ings over and above their expenses.
L
that Will diminish their earning
power but much To- insure its perma-
nency.
The reflex wave OF population
from the Pacific Coast is filling up
the lessening areas of untitled lands
in the interior OF the country and
the good times which the world
knows are existing here will draw
TO our shores in 1910 the largest num-
ber OF immigrants that the republic
has ever received within its gates
in single year.
They will be domiciled I'm city
and country and add more than n
million TO the population that must
be sustained by the soil.
The United States has ceased TO
expand In territory, but not in de-
velopment of tine square miles IL pos
sesses.
The mileage of railway construc-
tion already projected for next year
breaks all records for railway con-
struction i'm our annals, and railvay
managers predict year after year Of
this increased work on transportation
lines.
This means greater number of
persons OH the actual work of con-
struc.ion.
1t means greater demands upon
the farmers for their products and a
cultivation more intensive, with a
geater number of products and a
higher value TO the lands of the
country.
The Independent life of farmer
was never so independent as now.
1t was never so certain OF profit as
now, and IL never rewarded with
such large surplus profits as it does
now.
While the commercial and indus
trial classes are evidently doing fine
~ the agricultural interests of the
country seem TO possess by far the
most assured and most permanent
hold upon prosperity.
The soil OF The United States Is
ready to make rich and independent
scores of millions OF men who will
cultivate it with per- istence and in.
telligence.
May God help the Farmer.
Yours truly,
w. Il. Payne