The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-02-12
WEALTH IN NEBRASKA FARMS.
Automobiles Now Commonplace Lux
ury-Expensive Rugs in Demand;
Many Farmers Win City
Homes.

is shown by the fact that Eastern bond
houses have for some time been en-,
deaYoTing to place securities in his
hands. At several points entsrprising
men have made up from the peers onal
property tax record lists OF farmers
who have money ana sold the names
to bond houses. A number Of banks
have lists of farmers with surplus cash
who are in the market to buy good
mercantile and industrial paper.
year OF two ago the fact that the
farmer was entering the automobile
market was looked upon as astonishing,
This year there isn't town OF more
than u thousand persons in Nebraska
that does not have from one 10 three
garages where the machines are sold.
Down In Seward county, In town OF
200. one man has sold fourteen autos
since April !, and every one OF them;
went to some farmer In the neighbor-
hood. Practically every dealer in ag-
ricultural implements, and these are
numerous In the West, handles auto
mobiles.
This year, however, the farmer is
reaching out after more distinctive
hallmark OF fortune--he is buying Or
ielfal rugs. The rug man in one Of
Lincolns department stores has sold
twelve consignments OF Oriental rugs
to actual farmers-that is men out on
hn fuc ~ ftxtn h,it
to fit out the parlor and sitting room.
One order was for s2.4Oo. and the far.
mer's check was Forthcoming when
the delivery was made. The farmer,
his wife and daughter went into the
store one morning, and asked to look
at rugs. The old gentleman explained
that his daughter had been at the
State university for four years and
had got the idea that the old home
didn't look right with carpets, and as
they had the money they were inclined
to accept her advice They didn't just
know how the rugs would look ON the
floors. The obliging salesman dumped
them into several trunks. shipped them
to the nearest station, and when he
came back he had disposed of $4,000
worth.
The farmer excused his INDULGENCE
In an automobile by averring that 1t
came in handy about the place 70 ntu'
ny off wheat to the mill to be ground
into flour, to carry garden truck ana
eggs and poultry to town, but when
he comes to buying Oriental rugs he
frankly says that it is to please the
girls and boys who, back from col
lege, demand these things.
These changes, all within the past
few years. have been amazing even to
hose who have seen them at first hand,
In Il 1916 the deposits In the state banks
Of Nebraska were st0,000,000 In 1899
there were s2t 100000 This year they
are $73 900 900, and the latter sum does
not take into account the $l0O,00O.0OO
In the national banks. Nebraska Is
now harvesting her fifteenth good crop
In row OF years, There Is nodecrease
In the fertility, Of her lands. on the
contrary, the young aen whom the
state agricultural schools are turning
out arr making the lands yield larger
and better crops.
The dugout was abandoned as
prairie home twenty years ago, the
sodhouse disappeared ten years ago
save out in the sandhills, in the cattle
country. The small four or five room
frame shacks that followed these are
now giving way to the big. imposing
farmhouse, fitted with the comforts OF
life.
The big powerful windmill, supple
mented by the gasolene engine, make
It possible for every farmer to have
his own water and light plant. Sewers
10 nearby creeks carry away offensive
matter, and an inexpensive steam con-
denser or a hot water tank on the kit
chen range or gasolene stove furnishes
the hot water necessary TO make the
plumbing of farm home as complete
as that of city dwelling. The acety.
lent gas plant has nearly had its day
on the farm. Electricity is supplant-
ing it, The trolley line on the edge
Of the farm hasn't invaded the West
10 any great extent. but the farmer
need not depend on these. A motor
driven by gasolene or water power
will furnish enough current for ofdi-
nary uses. Power either from the mot.
or or the gasolene engine will run the
corn shelter and the other barn stored
machinery. Practically every farm
has a windmill, and while power from
this source is uncertain there Is Pos
sibility in it that is not being ove,F
looked by the more progressive faffh-
ers. e '7 q"
The lure OF the city Is still pulling
hundreds Of farmers into town every
year, leaving lle farms to be cutivat-
ed by tn. younger generation. A man
with section of Nebraska land is as
sured OF an income that will give him
everything ne wants in the city, One
Lincoln man who owns asa acres of
land In Saline county went out the
other day and sold his 5000 bushels
OF wheat In the field for $4,000 in cash
and II represented the yield of just
a third OF his acreage on that farm.
Lincoln has nearly 1900 families whose
heads no longer pretend to do active