The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-08-06
NO44
Stay on the Farm and be Your
Own Boss.

The Progressive Farmer, like
every other Journal that has the
good of the country boy at heart.
deplores the tendency on the part
Of the farmer boy to 90 to town
to better himself. but, unlike
most papers, the Progressive Far
mer shows the farmers boys
where it is much to their best in
terest to remain on the farm.
The following from that excel
lent publication is worthy Of
pcrusal by every country boy and
town resident as we'll:
There is one thing we should
like to urge very strongly in this
Issue, Mr.. Farmer-Boy, and that
Is that you stay on the farm where
YOU can be your own boss, instead
of gong off to the city to be some
bOdy,s clerk or. hired man-that
is, unless YOU have some special
marked and definite talent for
some Particular work.
1t is true, of course, that the
farmer does not get all the profit
that he ought to gct-nor all he is
going to gct-but it is also true
that the workingman in the coun-
try fares better than the working
man in town. Read all you can.
study all yoa can, and prepare
Yourself to be a good farmer
genuinely wIde-awake, progressive
farmcr-and YOU will, nine chances
out of ten, fare better than if YOU
should 90 to town.
As We see it, the farmers day
is coming. The thought OF the
word IS turned as never before t.
the building up Of the country,
Tne government itself which Wa
o2ce interested in protecting mau-
ufactures, developing manufac
tares, and building up the towns,
i beginning to see that the source
of all prosperity is on the farm.
But the one best sign Is that the
farmers themselves ar getting
aroused and are studying their
privileges and rights. Already
the a Haktning ani orEl1iz lttoa of
the farmers have re uited in un-
told good, and you ought to re-
solve now that there Shall be Il
farmers organization ia your
neighborhood as long as you live.
If YOU are over 16 years old join
the Farmers Union or whatever
other organization is nearest you,
and take an active part IN it.
Speak to your father about it.
Another thing which insures
better times for the Southern far
mers is this: For a hundred years
until very recently we have had to
compete with cheap land farmers
IN the west. That is to say, anv
farmer could 90 out west and
stake out homestead" and sell
his crop without allowance for
land values because his land cost
him nothing, or practically moth
ing. But all that is past. The
cheap lands of the west have gone,
and now when the western farmer
sells his crop he must al s. to so
per acre as an allowance for rent
or for interest on land values.
And because of this fact crops
simply can't be sold as cheaply as
formerly.
Then, too, city populations have
increased faster than country
populations the world over, and it
is becoming more and more ditli-
cult for the city people to yet
enough meats and food stuifs.
There are several million more
people in the United States than
there were five years ago. while
| there are several million fewer
meat animals. This is an india
ton that farm products must 20
higher, especially live stock.
One Of the greatest OF the
worlds students Of the rural pro-
! blems declared recently that in the
future labor on the farm is going
to be better paid than labor in the
towns, and we believe he is lI1ht.
Stick to the farm.