The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-11

ton Is actively engaged in farming
New YorlSs farms and farmers are
In q highly prosperous condition and
the annual value Of the farm products
of the state has increased so per cent.
or more In the past ten years, accord
Ing to figures collected by the state
department Of agriculture. Dairy
products, hay, fruits, and poultry
products in which New York occupies
q position among the leading states
Of the country, have all advanced
greatly in value in recent years so
that the value of the yearly output Of
the states farms is now 100000, 600,
or practically $1,000 for every person
engaged in agricultural occupations.
AS result there is q well-defined
movement toward the farm lands of
New York, not only on the part of
immigrants and residents in the large
cities, but also among farmers located
in other sections, who find that with
the prices prevailing for those pro-
ducts to which the lands Of New York
are well adapted they can make hand
some profits. 1t is predicted that this
movement will grow in strength and
that during the next ten years there
will be great increase in the rural
population of the state.
Statistics collected by DR.. Samuel
G. Tracy, founder of the Health and
Longevity club of New York, indicate
that the average American has one
chance in $4,000 of living to reach the
century mark. While the prospects
of becoming a hundred years old,
therefore, are too slender to offer much
encouragement for their realization, by
the ordinary man or woman, they are
far better in the United States than in
the principal European countries, the
centenarians being one in 100000 in
Germany, one in $4,000 in England
and one in 1s2,000 in France. Bulgaria.
however, has all other nations OUT
distanced in this respect, almost one
in every thousand of its population at
tanning the ripe age of FIVE score years
or more. According to DR. Tracy,
however, the number of years man
lives is less important than the per-
iod at which old age begins. This
should not be until eighty or over and
while 1t is impossible to prevent old
age it's progress can be retarded by
modern science so that 1t will not SER
iously impair the vitality before this
age has been reached.
If complaints lodged with the public
service commission receive favorable
action, one item in the cost of living
will be reduced. This Is the charge
imposed for checking hand baggage
in the parcel rooms of railroad sta
tions. AT present the traveller who de-
sires to be relieved of his bag or uIfl-
brella for few minutes without hav-
ing it stolen is compelled to pay ten
cents for the privilege on most rail-
way lines, although on certain roads
the same service is rendered for five
cents. 1t is contended that the latter
sum is ample payment for the service
rendered and it Is proposed to require
railway companies to maintain parcel
rooms in the stations in all towns
above a certain size, with a uniform
charge of five cents for twenty four
hours or less. This development calls
attention to the fact that the man
who controls the facilities for checking
parcels in the Grand Central station in
this city has made a fortune out of the
privilege He now owns several large
business establishments and is an ex
tensive operator in city and suburban
real estate. but he still runs the parcel
stand through which the dimes OF
travellers from every part of the world
have flowed to build up his present
prosperity.