The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-11-11
0GLEBAY
tConlnnsd s--= First P~rsJ

cattle. the best horses. and. going
down the animal line. the best dogs
are bred In EnglaDI That set me
To thinking. Presently / discovered
the reason. ! saw that the ablest and
most famous men of tho kingdom are
landowners. Business principles. con
sequontly. have been applied to Brit
ish agriculture. No matter II the land
is let out to tenants. IL is managed by
the owners. Then ] remembered that
Washington and jefferson were care
full and success, Ill farmers. Jefferson
Inherited ! 900 acres Of land from his
father. and at his marriage had in
creased his estate 20 5000 acres. from
/ which he derived n yearly income %
$1,000. a very large sum in the lean
days following the Revolution.
Goes 20 England for Live stock.
1t seemed to me. as ! studied Eng
lish methods. that intelligence. along
with patient attention to details, &C
counted for the pre-emincnt position
held 10y Great britain as an exporter
Cf fine live stock. The management
OF an estate there IL not left 70 the
tenant or the hired man. The master
, Of the land lives by the land and he
gives the land the same attention
that Americans give To banks. stores.
mines. aud factories.
1t is an honor IN England to be a
farmer. Here. IN the past. with some
persons, II has been a joke Gladstone
was a farmer and so was Edward
VII A flash OF truth. but not all 81
the truth. came into my head. We'll.
! bought such horses as wanted.
| Peer counseling me as TO my pur-
chases. had acquired more land in
the meanwhile. understand. aud then
owned 500 acres. cleaned II up.
n cd ftufI
harms and chicken coops. These
things ! could do Local help came
along and ] gave II place on the
pay roll. man would say: My
! grandfather and my father were farm
| ers and farming IL also my business
a biographical statement Of that kind
was sufficient for me. Here Ia a ma
| tive of the soil. I thought. and a per
son OF inbred and personal expert
| ence. did not realize that his
worthy grandfather had mined half
\ OF the virgin richness out Of the soil,
that his venerated father had mined
out the other half and that the man
applied 10 me for work because his
! farm couldn't support him.
Live stock is not a complicated
problem. and ] made satisfactory
headwny with horses and cattle. Tho
| Guernseys gave plenty OF milk, the
| Hackneys we're high steppPrs. and
the English sheep made rather a pref
! ~ picture on the hill side. Books
\ about agriculture were studied faith
/ long that ! was not making two blades
OF grass grow where there had been
only one.
Made His Hired Men Smile.
| Something was wrong. that was
| plain, Nor could ! stir the men in
my employ 20 show any enthusiasm
/ In their work. Here is q person from
/ % fwL kssI
is trying outlandish things. No harm
Ia done so long az he r. spending his
| own cash II WAS Ike making q stump
| speech TO an audience OF deaf men.
] "One day ! sat down ana wrote 20
Isaac = Roberts. lecturer on agricul-
I ture at Cornell University ! foid him
/ what ! had done. what I wanted 70
| do, and how ! had failed to got re-
I suits when tried TO make "a practical
I application 81 the Information I had
gained IN teyt-bOOke lie wrote me- a
| cheerful and helpful letter and
I worked on G'p 20 this particular
| period in my experiences. ] had only
| the making 81 country home In
3 view still wanted the home but ]
I had been a practical man and ! per
ceived that ] had not been practical
I In providing Amusement Tor myself
The next year I wrote 10 tho head
men ia zen Of our foremost schools Of
I agriculture. inviting them 70 visit mo
I az WaddingtOn Farm. The letters hap
I pened 20 overtake them while thcv
/ here Ia the East While they we're
I talking ono evening Liberty ~
4 Bailey. director o. Tho cornell COLLEGE,
| Of Agriculture. spoke % nc. saving
! was seemingly Hu earnest man ll.
l inR among tho hungry knobs OF tho
/ Appalachian region and asking some
I of the others % stop and see mo on
I their way home Prof lfili. OF the
/ University % Illinois. and Prof Otis
! Of tho University 81 Wisconsin.
! promised 81 DO 70 7 kept fhem for n
day and n half. though thev wanted
! 10 get away on fho next train.
You have az fine an experiment
station ne there ia IN tho country
| they said in fho evening. az We eat
| on fhe porch
THAT may he so answered but
i' ia not farm and that's what am
/ trying % create I need n general
| manager. n herd man. chicken ex
I pert. an orchardiHf and nm agricultur.
/ So Where can 7 find fhomT I asked
Competent Farm Managers Scarce.
y was told there were such men.
I bur that they we're teaching ~ col.
I educated they became professors and
I NOT WORKING ngrlcuI furIefa Such 7
may add. is The situation today
/ PLENTY ~ rich men would ilko 10 own
| farms but n ls impossible Tor Thorn
| fu nui competent MANAGERS and -0
/ they huv n few acres Of land and
/ plant fruit frrrH end vcgcfahlra ln
| stead ~ crops n They could buy
/ forms md raf and show mo roaf and
| visible resulfs ~ scientific agrI.ul.
1 fure. other farmers would 500 what
/ could hn done and would COPY fhnIr
| methods Little hy U-fie. cHmmuu.f.
/ b. community. fhr irfr frr would
/ CrHfualiy ha lifted uU lf seemed fr
/ mn fnrn n. NJ enrua fn mo- now ff.If