The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-31
SOME INDUCEMENTS AGRiCUL
TURE OFFERS THE YOUNG
MAN.
Bv Howl N. Hardeman.


The term agriculture is as broad
in its meaning as the term engineer
ing. And it deals with a subject
much more vital to man. Agricul-
ture has to do with the cultivation of
the soil for the production of mate
ria's for food and clothing. 1t also,
embraces every other industry prop
erly practiced in connection with soil
cultivation, such as the breeding and
feeding of live stock, dairying, bee
keeping, fruit culture, vegetable grow
ing, and poultry farming.
Farming is the business end Of
agriculture. 1t is the growing of
crops in garden and field, the breed
ing and care of 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 it is a neces-
sity 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 iudg-
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 any state in the union. We some
times boast that we could build a
Chinese wall around our borders and
live without aid from the outside
world Tennessee is a state of many
resources. Our products vary from
those of southern cline to those of
northern cline. They are in great
demand from the pineries of Canada
on the north, to the flowery fields of
Florida on the south, and westward
beyond the grand Rockies.
Attractions of Farm Life.
AS successful business farmer
your 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 If
you consider them. The cry of
back to the soil' conveys many
pleasant ideas nowadays, for the so
cial and intellectual life of the farm
is UNNECESSARILY 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
wealth, health and happiness, will pre-
occupy the best mental equipment
you can afford.
Farming is the one occupation upon
which all others depend. People have
way of wanting their two or three
meals day and the farm must fur.
nish the wherewithal
If you as a farmer are at all sue
cessful, you will be able to command
your own time and lead an independ.
ent life. Unlike the workers in 9th.
er businesses you will have no fear OF
being displaced to cut down expenses
or to make way for a younger per
son. Your standard in life may be as
high or higher than that Of people in
the city, and you will get good fresh
food that is neither wilted nor frozen
There is no calling in which success
is anything like so certain as in farm
ing, when a man is trained and pre-
pared to follow it. AS farmer, yor
can carry out your own policies ant
think and express your own thoughts
and shape your own life.
Comforts and practical conven
fences in farmers homes are nov
common. Simple, yet effective labor
saving devices for supplying hot ant
cold water, heat and light, and powel
are introduced into the homes every
where at very low cost. And
home in the country with these con
veniences is the best possible home
The farm life of the present has
many advantages over the isolation o
earlier days. The multiplication o
smaller farms is bringing about goot
roads, more schools, nearer neigh