The Washington herald., 1911-07-09

sIbllities for men who sincerely desire to
serve their States or the nation.
MIR. MncVenEh and other Farmers.
Il wish there were a rural directory of
the whole country showing the statesmen,
manufacturers, lawyers, financiers, writ
ers, artists, college presidents, and physi-
clans who have bought land and are now
husbandmen personally or by proxy. Such
men as Grover Cleveland, John Hay,
Mark Twain, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Au-
gustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor; Ed
ward Everett Hale. Count Won Stern
berg. the German Ambassador: William
James, the philosopher, and Edmund c.
Steadman, the poet and banker, were
New Hampshire farmers.
The Secretary of the Treasury. Frank
lin MacVeagh, has lived for twelve
years among our mountains. John c.
Spooner has several hundred acres OF
land, some OF which he is cutivating,
Just as he practices law, which means
most successfully. The new Secretary
of War. Mr.. Stimson. has a farm on
Long Island and sells hay. Mr.. Knox.
Secretary OF State, has a fine place in
Pennsylvania and sells milk to his
neighbors. The grangers, applying the
name loosely, now include among their
number hundreds of the most conspicu-
Gus men in the country. j. Pierpont
Morgan, l believe, specializes with dogs
as does Samuel Untermeyer, the famous
corporation lawyer. Four hundred farms
were purchased last year in the little
State OF New Hampshire by outside
buyers, mostly by men who live and
work in cities. Strangers coming among
us spend 100000 a year for mansions,
cottages. bungalows. and farm buildings
Summer folks, as we call the army of
vacationists, spend $4,000, coo annually at
our hotels. boarding g-houses, and farms.
So our sterile mountains, with the
climate incident thereto. compensate us
for losses in other directions"
How much capital should a city man
have who has determined to make ag-
riculture his businessT'
IF farmer moved to town and tried
to run a store without money or ex-
perience he would be bankrupt in six
months. butcher must know how to
cut UP pigs, sheep, and steers; a mer-
chant must understand the mechanics
of buying and selling. A city-bred man
cannot move, onto a farm and i'm
mediately make both ends meet He
must have money. apart from what he
invests in land, tools, and live stock.
Moreover, he must like to plow and reap,
to milk cows and feed poultry. Thus
cash he can learn farming in two or
three years.
BIoIIycoddles shouId stay I'm Town.
Working In the fields. however, VIII
always be hard. hot work. Corn will not
grow unless 1t is planted and cultivated.
I never heard of crop of wheat or
timothy that,cut itself. Potatoes must be
dug. But in such toll there is pleasure
II one likes life out-of-doors. 1t is hard
work to do anything right / prefer the
sun to q burning gas jet at a desk Some
men do not
What causes have made meat, eggs,
butter, and other kinds OF food dearT
''Underproduction is one cause A
multiplicity of profits Is another. Many
factors stand between the producer and
the eater and the profits Of each are
larger than they used to be. "A grocer
with 5000 invested In his business often
lives in large house and maintains
either horse and buggy or an automo-
bile. A farmer with 5000 In land,
machinery. and live stock cannot indulge
himself Ia any extravagances-he counts