The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-06-07
WHAT INDUCEMENTS
FARMING OFFERS TO
THE YOUNGER men
HONORABLE AND INTERESTING
VOCATION FROM EVERY
PHASE AND VIEW.
1T IS an INDEPENDENT LIFE
With Educational Advancement
cores More Intelligent and Conse.
quentIy More Successful Farm.
ing and Satisfactory Results.

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And it deals with subject much
more vital to man. Agriculture has
to do with the cultivation of the soil
for the production of materials for
food and clothing. 1t also embraces
every other industry properly practic-
ed N Connection with soil cultivation,
such as tho breeding and feeding OF
| live stock, carrying, bee keeping, fruit
culture, vegetable growing, and poul-
| try Turning.
Farming is the business end Of ag-
riculture. Il is the growing of crops
| in fafden and field, the breeding and
care u live stock and the marketing
! of these products.
What vocation could be more inter-
esting and honorable than farming?
There is nothing that measures up
to IT., for it is no less an art to raise
products profitably than 1t is neces-
still that human wants be met. The
improvement of animal and plant life
through selection and breeding is not
only fascinating and interesting, but
requires all the skill and good judg-
ment that can be had from study and
practice.
In this great state of ours we can
produce any crop that can be grown
in al.y state in the union. We some.
times boas. that we could build q
Chirense wall around our borders
and live without aid from the outside
world. Tennessee is a state Of many
resoul ces Our products vary from
those Of southern cline to those of
"a northern cline. They are in great
demand from the pineries of Canada
on the north, to the flower fields Of
Florida on the south, and westward
beyond tho grand Rockies.
AS a successful business farmer,
youl chief tie to farm life is the al |
most irresistible attraction of large
cash returns on your investment.
There are other attractions and ben
efits Of scarcely less Importance that |
will draw you toward the farm II you |
consider them. The cry of back to |
The soil" conveys many pleasant |
ideas nowadays, for the social and |
intele ctual life of the farm is i'm
measurably more attractive than in
your fathers day. Few men live, or
have lived, that cannot find on a |
farm scope for all their intellect and
romance. The skill, the knowledge,
the experience necessary to make the /
soil yield abundantly, transmitting Ia
Dor and land into wealth, health and
happiness, will pre-occupy the lest
mental equipment you can afford.
Farming is the one occupation up.
on which all others depend. Peo-
pie have way of wanting their two
or three meals day and the farm
must furnish the wherewithal.
II you as farmer, are at all src.i
cessfui. you will be able to command !
your own time and lead an independ-
ent lite. Unlike the workers in 9th.
er businesses, you will have NO fear
OF being displaced to cut down ex.
perses or to make way for a young-
er person. Your standard in life may
be as high or higher than that of Leo
pie In the city and you will get good
fresh fool that Is neither wilted or
frozen.
There Is no calling in which sue.
cess is anything like so certain as in
farming. when a man 10 trained and
prepared to follow it. As a farmer.
you can carry out your own policies
and think and express your own
thoughts and shape your own life.
Comforts and practical conven.
fences In farmers homes are now
common. Simple, yet effective lab
or-saving devices for supplying hot
and cold water, heat and light, and
power are introduced into farm
homes everywhere at a very low
cost. And home in the country
with these conveniences is the best
possible home. The farm life of the
present has many advantages over
the ISOLATION of earlier days. The
multi cation of smaller farms is bring.
ing about good roads, more schools.
nearer neighbors, more farm teIe-
phones. more effective churches, &C.
cessibie libraries, improved mail faci.
lit'as and social environment that
Is impossible where farms are large.
WAT happens to the old time
-armer that tills his soil and plants
his seed, that says "if 1t grows, II
grows, and II 1t don't, 1t doEt?"
That thinks there Is nothing new
under the sun. and that only rhysi.