The Columbus journal., 1910-01-19

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the superintendent room. county at
| court room. The basement is ar
| ranged for assembly room. G. A. z,
read the paper by Prof. Mckay made
reference to the fact that there are
very few s;los in this state. When
travel through the northeastern por-
ton of the United States and up into
Canada l see so silos to where you
see one or where you see none in
Iowa. 1t must mean something. It
| means that these must know there is
some benefit and some advantage in
having silage over the way we are
feeding now. 1t is one of the things
l think you ought to study.
Il am trying to work up little SEN
timent on another line and l know of
no people more interested in it than
you dairymen-the question of good
roads. 1t means you can get your
cream to your factories cheaper and
better if we have better roads. This
means that your profits will be larger
and therefore you can pay more
profits to the farmer. don't know
just how we are going to bring good
roads to Iowa. but | believe it should
be done by using the supplies We
have at hand l was talking with the
governor of New Hampshire recently
and he told me that they were build
ing miles of macadam roads there.
and that they were getting their stone
from Massachusetts and shipping it
into the state for the purpose of max
ing roads. He said they had stone in
New Hampshire. but they could get it
cheaper and better from Massachus-
etts. If this can be done in Iowa l
think it would be good plan. but l
believe there is plenty of good stone
in Iowa. and l believe at least some
OF it should be on the roads in the
shape of macadam.
Il had a talk with a road enthusiast
a short time ago who suggested this
idea to me. We have an appropria-
ton to levy a four-mill road tax. He
advised taking certain percentage of
that and setting it aside to be used for
dragging the roads everywhere after
every rain. He said it could be done
for six or seven dollars year per
mile. | was talking with exGov..
Larrabee few days ago and he said
he thought that was too high. He in
veStlSated PIECE of road that is be-
ing kept in shape near his home at
Cicrmont and wrote me that II hours
WORK per year served to keep that
road in condition. If we can put our
roads in shape on three mills on the
dollar and keep them III shape on one
mill on the dollar it would certainly
be an Improvement worth while. The
soil is such that it is more difficult to
keep roads good than in most other
places. yet believe that we can get
a good deal better results out of the
appropriation and taxes than we are
getting now.
1T seems to me that those things
which are most attractive to a boy
or girl by way of rural entertainment
have passed out of existence and our
country people are catching on to city
ways. l think that is a mistake. We
are talking about keeping the boy on
the farm. If we are keeping the right
bog on the farm that is the thing to
do Not every boy. however. born on
the farm will make a good farmer;
some OF them are not good for any
thing. If you have boy who will
stay on the farm that is the best place
in the world to Keep MIN.
Don't try tc cwn all the land that
borders on your land. 1t is against
the laws of nature. and you have no
business with It. You don't need 800
acres of land In Iowa. Give part of
it to the boy and keep him at home.
Don't set him up as poor excuse for
a lawyer or doctor. but keep him at
home to raise family.
How are you going to keep the
girl at home? How much money did
you make of your COWS last year?
Don't try to put all that money into
big barns. Good buildings and i'm
provements for the stock are. of
forts into the home to induce the girl
to stay there. Henry Wallace said at
Des Moines last week that if he were
a housewife and the husband would
not put hot and cold water in the
house he would put tent in the yard
and stay there until he did put it in.
There is not a class of people in the
state of Iowa better able to have good
homes than the farmers. He has an
income big enough to take care of
him. The farmer may rob himself by
failing to farm properly. but you can't
rob him of his farm if he has it paid
for. There is no man in the state
that ought to have a more comfort
able home than the farmer. and the
best way l know to keep the boy and
girl on the farm is to furnish them
home that they will want to stay in.