New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-22
Copyright. 1915. by

Graudenz. Germany, March 80
don't know that you could call Won Bis
marck of Jarchlin-nephew OF the Ia
nous Chancellor-typical of the class
of iunkers, or young gentlemen farm
ers. of Germany.
Pcrhaps he is too poetic and hne
fbred TO be wholly representative or
those hale and intensely practlcai
souires. but one may consider MIN the
highest type Of a class that with hcr
soldiers and manufacturers is the Dul-
wark of modern Germany.
Sometimes, however, when oo-
served his accuracy OF statement ms
passion for method and his quiet
executive ways Of performing tne mlll-
tarv service to which he has been as
signed, | wondered whether IL were nor
the sensibility of Won Bismarck ana Oh
the Young squires like him that MAKES
these men so emphatically creative
factors in the scientific development OF
German agriculture. ~.
They have sensltlvenesS lot '"e
soil. The neglect of it they regard rs a
sort OF proclamation and consider lhSm
selves as in some sense consecrateu 20
the task of preserving its tecundlty by
the most careful rotation and fertlll1a-
ton.
Hence a practical man OF affalrs,
this cadet Of the house of Bismarck
knows countries and men ana methous'
and so has a horizon.
England he knows thoroughly, hay
ing visited there for considerable
pcriods; knows her in her strength and
her weakness and in her contradlc-
lions. in her spirit Of dauntless plo-
neerine; in her supercilousness, her
fabbv love of comfort and her fatuous
astefulness: in her boundless re-
sources and her dreadful poverty.
Such poverty. even in these rigorous
war times. does not exist in Germany
! have been in the country nearly four
months out of the six beginning last
September, spending hours and some
times DAYS in fifteen of the large cities
of the kingdom of Prussia, and | nave
never been accosted by beggar. No
man could spend fifteen minutes any
evening In Piccadilly without oelng
waylaid by one. +
The class OF which Won Bismarck is
q high expression are gentlemen farm
ers in the sense that many OF them are
men of gentle birth. -,
But they emphatically are not dill.
etante farmers. They have factors AND
head farmers. but they know as much
about cattle breeding and the WORKING
OF the soil as their factors and head
farmers know.
Their Scientific Training.
An eight years course in agriculture
is part of their preparation for taking
over the lands Of their ancestors.
/ Land that an Illinois farmer would
not plough they make TO produce with
amazing bounty by system OF liberal
and scientific fertilzing, and when they
discovered that the war would reduce
the imports Of fertilizer TO almost
nothing they turned with confidence 70
the German chemists, and the German
chemists are producing fertilizer out OF
the air.
These men acknowledge a heavy re-
sponsibilty to their lands and to the
people who work for them. Most OF
/ them try to live up TO that response
bility.
( Forty-three men on the Pomeran'
ian farms Of Bismarck of Jarchin have
gone to the war So has he. VI tne
forty-threc. three or four have fallen
+ in battle. The master of Jarchlin con
/ tinues to pay the wages OF the livlna
| and the dead in full.