Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-16


prosperity. stop being pesamistfc. and do
something to help materially increase The
average yield from Mother Earth. BY 30
doing you are rot robbing anyone, but
you add dollars 10 your own wealth as
well as 20 the wealth Of your state and
nation. As you Increase the yield Of your
acres you increase the commercial value
OF your lands. What was your land worth
in 1898 why has Il increased so manifoldg
Because OF the increased yield Of grain per
acre, due largely to better seasons and
more timely rains but much Of IL to bet
ter or more scientific So. culture and bet
ter seed.
All Science Advances.
why do we ride in automobiles today in
stead Of the OK cart Of fifty years ago
Because some one has been doing some
thinking Why don't our mothers and sis
tiers knit all out stockings, gloves and nit
tens just as they did fifty years ago? Be
cause some one by a little thinking in
vented a knitting machine that could knit.
Then some one else began TO think and inn
provements came on these first crude ma
chimes one after the other, until today one
woman can run twelve Of the modern ma
chimes. each capable Of knitting twelve
pairs in one hour Then by some one using
ing. IL is possible for one woman by using
the machines devised by these many
thoughts, to knit 1000 pairs Of stockings in
the same time IL once required to knit one
pair
Because some had done some thinking
we have the rural mail service at the
farmers door, II was once ridiculed like
all new ideas. but Il is useful and practical
Just the same. We can have the telephone
In our farm homes, yes, we can have as
modern appliances in our homes five, ten
or twenty-five miles from the railroad
town as the average city home can have,
including gas or electricity for lights and
cooking. Some one has thought out other
cheap and practical home appliances, and
more will come.
Now. Mr.. Farmer, it's up to you to get
them, not by traffickng and scheming to
get some one to pay you for some COM
modify more than you had paid or agreed
to pay for it, that you may use the sur
plus or profits for necessities, comforts
and pleasures IN life. Oh, no. there is an
easier, honest, surer way. Study your land
and its cultivation, the relation Of air and
water to the growth Of the plant. and how
you can by thought and great care so
regulate the combination Of air and water
In the soil as to promote such a rapid,
healthful growth Of all plants as to bring
you harvest two, three and four times
as great. BY this plan you not only add
proportionately to your available funds for
more improvements and comforts, but YOU
have added to. the wealth of your country
and harmed no one Your land is still
there and by the same care and observation
OF scientific soil culture and nature brings
around other growing seasons with their
increased sunshine and heat, another and
another big crop can be grown IL you con-
tinue to- do the right kind sof work at the
right time as well as think. Think, but
never think you have done your best, for
you can do better next time
Keep thinking, keep trying, and thereby
| help to bring all crops nearer to the pos.
| sible high average, and then bsslx in the
sunshine OF Nebraska's prosperity. for tn,
wintry winds of adversely will no Longer
hover around your modest home, drivinr
| the dear boys and girls to apparent field
Of greater attractions. Begin now anc
help make Nebraska stand out as tn,
greatest and most prosperous agriculture
state in the west. 1t can be done. will
you help?
As the farmers of Nebraska cultivat,
their soil so shall their harvest be-" Yes
be Nebraska booster, not by what yor
say, but by what you do. Few peopl,
realize what they can do to make theii
state better. their home brighter and theu
friends happier until they try.
H. w. CAMPBELL.