The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-11


The net profit which may be Sc
cured from the individual farm, de-
pends very materially on the econ
omic condition of the community in
which it is located.
In the minds of all thinking men,
there is no longer any question that
after the proper adjustment OF the
enterprises on the farm to enable us
to secure the greatest net profit. the
next great step In the improvement
of the financial condition of the farm
ers must come by cooperation with
each other in working, buying, SELL
ing, securing credit, etc. Co-opera-
tion has had much to do with the
great advancement of the urban peo-
pie. 1t cannot fail to have a like eff
feet on the fortunes of the rural peo-
pie.
Cooperate.
The time has now come when they
must adopt it If they wish to secure
the maximum of success in their busi-
ness.
So long as it is true that the farm
er gets only from IS to 40 cents on
the dollar the consumer pays for his
products, so long will the question of
how to get the producer and con-
sumner closer together be an import
ant one to be considered in connec-
tion with the business management
of the farm.
1t will not suffice, however, to con-
fine the attention of farm manage
ment to the production of greater net
profits from the farm, important as
this Is.
The development of better rural
homes, rural schools, rural churches
and all rural institutions that are re-
lated to an Independent rural citizen
ship is vastly more important.
II the increased income from the
farm does not result in making better
farm homes, out of which shall come
better boys and better girls who shall
be better equipped to fight lifes bat
ties than their parents were because
of the better advantages they have
enjoyed, then, however many dollars
you may have on the credit side Of
your ledger, the final balance sheet
will be against you.
Keeping the Boy.
The question of keeping the boy
on the farm is sure an important one
when We consider that in the sums
of one great city, Chicago, there are
$4,000 men and boys who once lived
on West and Midwest farms and sure
ly shows that there was something
radically wrong with their education
and home life.
We must show the boys that farm
life is, or can be made, one Of the
most independent lives that a man
can live; that 1t Is an honorable en-
ployment; and further, that it is a
profitable business when conducted
on scientific principles.
1t is our mission to feed and clothe
the world, and what nobler or higher
calling can any man engage in? But
while this is true, your boy will as
certainly turn from farm life as he
will from any other disagreeable work
If you keep him at farm drudgery and
neglect his education and give him
no chance to develop those God-given
impulses to rise above the drudgery
of life and taste some Of the indie
pendence. sweetness and beauty that
should ever be the crowning glory
of life upon the farm.
Possibilities of Farm Life.
Farm life is a life in close COM
munion with Nature; but we must
learn some of Natures secrets, learn
to understand her language, and CO.
operate with her laws to enjoy to the
fullest extent this communion and
know how to claim from her the rich
treasures she holds in store for those
who have the key to unlock the door
of her storehouse.
The man in possession of this
and who uses it, not alone
to make Nature yield him the largest
return in cash, but who succeeds in
an environment on the farm
and in the home that will make his
boy and his girl want to dig still
deeper into Natures secrets, has man
aged his farm to the best advantage,
and to the greatest purpose ever
keeping in mind the teaching of the
Man Of Galilee, that "The life is more
than meat, and the body is more than
!