The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-13


renters are the most numerous.
But this must all be changed and
if we are not foresighted enough to
make the change voluntarily we will
be compelled by stern necessity to
improve our methods later.
The farmers Of America like to feel
that they are the most progressive in
the world and thousands Of them are
unquestionably entitled to this dis
tinction, but the yield from our farms
per acroeas compared with the re-
suits obtained in other countries
shows the American farmer in a most
sorry light.
A small English farm which has
been growing crops for upwards of
thousand years will produce twenty.
five to thirty bushels of wheat per
acre, whereas thousands of our farm
ers with much better soil are produc-
ing half that amount per acre.
A German farmer will easily raise
three times as much in dollar value
per acre as an American farmer.
The Japanese, with their little gar.
den-like patches, get results out OF
comparatively barren land which
would astound the average farmer of
our country Every foot of his soil
grows something and there is abso-
lutely no waste.
The French farmer enforces a rig
id economy on his farm, loses no
time, fertiliZes his land faithfully, and
many of the smaller countries sup
ply ten times more people to the
square mile than we care for under
our present methods.
Eighteen hundred years ago Hero
dotus saw the perils of careless, in
different agricultural methods quite
as plainly as we can see them today,
and he observed in his travels that
the countries which were giving in
telligent, careful treatment to the
soil were rich and prosperous, and
those which were farming for their
present needs without regard to the
future were in a process OF slow de-
cay"
The future of agriculture in the
United States depends very largely
upon the brains and energy OF its
farming population. This means that
the farmer of the future must be a
business man and he must conduct
his farm upon a business.like basis
therefore, first al all, that he must
know his business. He must know
how to care for his soil, how to re.
plenish it, how to protect it from
erosion or washes, and how to cult.
vate II, He must be intelligent enough
to know the tremendous importance
OF refOrestering He must be keenly
alive to the necessity of good seed
He must be mechanical enough Ia
utilize every possible labor.savinG
machine and implement in order ia
take the place OF the hired help which
appears to be growing scarcer all the
time.
He must be .broad.minded enough
to know that good roads will brine
} him ten-fold for all that he ever in
vests IN them in the saving of tim,
and in wear and tear on his stool
and vehicles.
He must be enlightened enough t
know that it is good sense and gooc
( economy to have comfortable home
t Thousands of farmers are paying an
nual doctors bills sufficient to estab
!. lish their families in comfort
. A woman carrying water one hun
t dred yards from a pump, and WOO,
d two hundred feet from the kitchen
g travels a good many miles in a yea,
a girl who spends eight or ten hour
l. per week pumping water, turning
chrrn or separator, etc, can occup,
her time not only TO better adyantag,
L - herself but to greater actual profit