Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17


From the New York Evening Post.
A slim, active little man, with con-
templative eyes and grayish hair, has
been lodging in and out of the Hotel
Belmont the last day or two, trying
to avoid the hordes of job-seekers,
promoters and cranks who have
driven the clerks at the information
desk to the verge of distraction. You
would never think in looking at him
that he is the man who is said to
have the third largest income in
actual cash in the world, that he rose
from an ordinary mechanic to be the
most-talked-of automobile manufac-
turer of his time, employing 10000
men; and that his methods have
radically influenced the automobile
business.
This little man, with the alert man
ner of a boy, is Henry Ford, the
creator of the Ford automobile, who
electrified the Industrial world by
announcing a profit-sharing plan for
the employees of his several different
plants, which involves the distribu-
tion of $10000,0 900 in cash a year.
Although it isn't generally known,
the automobile mans principal hobby
is natural history. He is absorbed in
the habits and ways of life of wild
animals and birds. And his interest
is not vicarlous, either. They tell a
story of about how he stopped trac-
ton engine that was blowing a field
on his farm near Detroit because di-
rectly in the huge engines path was
a fragile robins nest with four eggs
in ii. The engine stayed where 1t was
for ten days until the eggs were
Matched. Another time Ford had $4,000
worth of English wild birds sent to
him from across the Atlantic, intend
ing to start an aviary. But when the
birds arrived he thought they looked
homesick, and he got up at sunrise
the next morning, after worrying over
the matter all night, and turned them
loose.
1t is no more than to be expected
that a man who likes birds and ami
mails should care for small boys, too.
Boys are Ford's other great fad. Not
ordinary boys, but street boys, who
lack the chances of ordinary boys.
He takes dozen to twenty-five boys
every year from the Detroit streets,
sends them to school in winter and
works them on his farm in the sum-
mer, feeding and housing them all the
year round, and employing a man es-
peeially to look after them. He was
a working boy once himself, and he
has fellow feeling for the waits who
must rely upon their own efforts to
get ahead in the world.
New England's Neglected Land.
From the Hartford Courant.
In the ten years covered by the last
census &c., 99 acres of cultivated land
in New England were allowed to go
back to the untillable state. About
Sc per cent. of this was in the State
of Vermont, nearly IL per cent. in
New Hampshire, over 13 per cent.
in Massachusetts and not quite / per
cent. in Connecticut. This land repre-
sented in taxable property over
S17 900, 900, but, economically speaking,
it meant a great deal more than that
when the fact is taken into considera-
ton that today New England pro-
duces in the way of food probably
less than % per cent. of what her
people consume. In food production
these $40, 499 acres represented perhaps
3s,750,450 bushels of cereals, valued at
over s26, 100000, or 20,680,000 bushels of
corn, worth nearly $24 900, or hay
crop worth $13,700,000. These 879,450
acres would have fed over 100000
cows, would have fattened over 800, 900
head of beef and would have fur
nished pasturage for 100000 sheep
facts well worth considering in this
era of high prices
1.-THE grass-g growing areas of New
England" wrote President Kenyon L.
Butterfleld, of the Massachusetts Ag-
ricultural College, ARE unsurpassed
for native power in producing good
hay. Even the hillside pastures are
of superior quality. The Lord intend
ed that in New England there should
be cattle on a thousand hills and it
H. Int
not"
Fine Work of Corn Club Boys.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
The annual report of the Boys
Corn Club work in North Carolina
has some figures which should be of
interest to every person in the State
interested in its industrial develop
ment. Notwithstanding the summer
drought over a large part of the State
and the severe windstorm that struck
eastern and central North Carolina
the first of September, totally de-
stroying the corn on a great many
acres, there were $40 boys out of a
total enrolment of 2,276 who sent in
their final reports. These $40 boys
made a total yield of 41,81665 bush
els of corn at a total cost of ST., AGA. 81.
The average yield of the boys was
624 bushels per acre at an average
cost of 81 cents per bushel. This is
an average profit of more than S39 per
acre, figuring corn at 81 per bushel.
The average yield for 1912 was 62.8
bushels, at a cost of AZ cents per
bushel.
One of the chief purposes of this
work is to show the boys that by the
application of intelligence to farm
ing there is a handsome profit in 1t.
Just think what an influence this