The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-23

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20 give him eNpert advice and aid OF
come one point indispensable TO III:
business. He finds this man usually
IN some gradua.e OF technical
school or college in which he has
been trained for his life work.
In just the same way the farmers
should benefit by the advice Of The
technical men who have been trained
in phases OF the very work the farmer
does. am not nov speaking OF the
man who has had AL ordinary general
training. whether in school or college.
While there should undoubtedly be
such q training as a foundation (the
extent differing according 10 the kind
oi work each boy intends 10 DO as a
mani; il !s nevertheless rue that our
educational system should more and
more be turned in the direction OF
educating men towards. and not away
tom, the farm and the shop. During
The las. Aall-cen.ury We have begun
TO deFe- -Op system OF agricultural
education a. once practical and sci
en,lfic, and We must 20 on developing
II. But, after developing il. il mus,
be used. The rich man who spends a
fortune upon fancy iarm, with ell
the difference 70 cost, does not do
much good 10 farming; but, ON the
other hand, JUS. as little is done by
the working farmer who stolidly re-
fuses TO profit by the knowledge OF
tle day; who treats any effort AT i'm
pIOyement as absurd on It's face, re-
fuses to cOun,enance what he regards
as newiangied ideas and contriyances,
and Jeers al all book farming /
@lsn ] could take representatives Of
this type OF farmer down to Long
Island, where / live, 10 have them
see wnat has been done, not as phil
anthropy but as PLAIN business prop
Osluon, by men connected with the
A@oil0 A9idIu iNdiIOdut NuO DclleHe IL
pays TO encourage the development
OF farms along the line OF that rail
way They have put practical men
in charge OF eXperilnen al farms, cul-
tiyatlng them intensiyely, and using
the best modern methods, not only
/ in raising crops, but in securing the
best market Tor the crops when rails
ed. The growth has been astounding,
and land only fifty miles from New
/ York, which during our entire nation
al life time has been treated as worth
( less has within the last three or four
years been proved to possess really
/ high value
/ \rhe farmer, however, must no
only make his land pay, but he must
make country lite interesting for him.
/ self and Tor his wife and his sons and
daughters. Our people as a whole
should realize the infinite possibilities
OF lie in the country. and every Ell
| fort should be made to make ,hese
/ possibilities more possible From the
. beginning of time it has been the
man raised in the country-and usu-
ally the man born in the country
who has been most apt 20 render the
services which every nation most
needs. Turning to the list of Ameri-
can statesmen. it is extraordinary to
see how large proportion star ed
as farm boys. But it is rather sad to
see that in recent years most of these
same boys have ended their lives as
men living in cities.
1T OF en- happens that the good
conditions OF the past can be regained,
not by going back but by going for
ward. We cannot recreate what is
dead; We cannot stop the march Of
events, but We can direct this march
and out of the new conditions de-
yelop something better than the past
knew. Henry Clay was a farmer VINO
lived all his life in the country;
Washington was farmer who lived
and died in The country; and We OF
this nation ought TO make it our bust
ness TO see that the conditions are
made such that farm life in the fuure
shai not ony deyeop men of the stamp
OF Washington and Henry Clay but
snail be 50 attractive that these men
may continue as farmers, for remem.
ber that Washington and Henry
Clay We're successful farmers. l hope
that things will so shape themselves
hat the farmer can have a great
career and yet end MS life as a farm
er. so that the city man will look
forward to living in the country rather
than the country man living in the
ci.y.
, Farmers should learn how TO com
bine effectively as has been done in
industry am M rticularly Glad IN