The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-06-05
MODERN FARM METHODS.
Louisville Man Tells Richmond Paper
Why Farms Are Conducted
on Modern Lines.

| In a recent issue of the Richmond
Register, Mr.. E. G. Parrish, of Louis
vile, has an interesting communica-
ton contrasting the old ways on the
farm with the new. Mr.. Parrish
writes:
I'm recent issue of your paper you
asked why the farmer of to-day had
lceased to follow the practices of his
| predecessors of the soil of a few short
years ago, instancing that the olden
farmer prepared his raw products for
the market while the modern farmer
purchases at the stores those things.
which his progenitors manufactured.
THE inquiry raises question that
! cannot, with any degree of Satisfac-
ton be answered in a phrase, nor yet
| be elucidated in paragraph. The
answer, to be correct, must necessari-
! ally seek the tap-roOt cause of the ire
mendous and revolutionary changes
which our industrial development has
undergone in recent years.
Society as at present constituted
has not always been such. There has
been several systems, the first of
which we have any historical knOwl-
edge, can for want of a better deScrip-
tive name, be called barbariSm, which
perhaps sustained an existence of sew
eral thousand years. This social sys-
tenn was followed in order by slavery,
feudalism and capitalism or the pres
ent system carried within itself germs
of the succeeding system, elements
of it's own destruction. So we find
evidences in our present system tend
ing to the transportation to some 9TH
er and more satisfactory method of
meeting the requirements of the peo-
pie.
1.-The farmer of to-day does not kill
his meat and grind his wheat and
corn for practically the same reason
that his wife no longer spins the yarn
and weaveS the jeans from which the
farmers clothes are made. The pack
| ing house has taken the place of the
/ farm slaughter pen, and the modern
roller mill that makes a thousand
| barrels of -four day, has taken the
place of the hand mill or morton and
pestle, Just as the modern cotton mill
| has eliminated the spinning wheel and
driven the Old-fashioned loom to the
attic.
"The packing houses and cold stOr-
age plants are the natural growth of
our industrial system, and afford a
better and more constant market for
every thing which the farmer may
produce and care to sell. With cold
storage and refrigerator cars, backed
by untold millions of capital, perish
able as we'll as cured products of the
farm, can be put down at any local
market in the country in more regular
and satisfactory manner than under
the old haphazard indiVidualistic for
mer system.
with the cold storage there is a
fairly regular price for the products
of the farm, in the raw, and as the
market requirements demand, the
cold storage companies, which are
practically syndicated, can and do re-
lease Just as they feel justified under
those market requirements.
During those good olden times to
ken, the woman functioned more
largely in farm activities. She assist
ed in making lard, sausage, and the
various puddings, etc., about hog kill
ling time She it was who made those
delightful preserves and jellies and
CONNECTIONS of the fruits for the lone
winters evenings, But where are
these things now? The packing
houses of Chicago, with as may EN-
ployes as there are men, women and
children in the whole county OF Mad
: ison, attend to all the slaughterlns
/ for her, and the modern canning fac
: tory does the same thing for hel
, fruits and vegetables. The old lye
! soap is almost a thing of the past
. and as a by-product the packing
: plants are shipping in most attractive
form under various names, all the
,, soaps used in the land.
"Woman's activities have been with
drawn from the home, and she is now
forced into the factories, shops, mills
stores, offices and other places by
condition over which she has had
and has no control. With this disap
pearance of home activities on the
part of women and the massing, un
der force of conditions, in places out
side the home, is involved one of the
most serious side problems of farm
life.
"The large plants have eliminated
home manufactures, and the growth
of the large plants, under the urge of
the trust tendency, has not yet been
reached. Not a day passes but some
useless home process is given over to
the limbo of the discarded. The trust
has come to stay. Society will not
evolve backward. 1t must constantly
go forward. The days of Jefferson and
Jackson are gone and gone forever.
We have railroads and telephones and
wireless, and now fly drought the air
like birds, with thousand and one
things which multiply the force and
efficiency of men a thousand-fold more
than when Jefferson lived and Hamil-
ton planned.
Gas to your caption what is the
matter with the farmers of our coun-
try | can respond as follows: The