Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-20

sells III any misunderstanding. saving
him from lawsuits and expenses; and
they act a his banker. in a wav,
through the organization Of mutual
agricultural loan societies which are
separate from the syndicates. -.
Loans Readily Obtained ...~ II
"Any landowner can borrow the
money he needs to exploit his farm.
from one OF our IS regional or 1000
local agricultural loan banks. whose
combined capital was 80 million francs
in 1913: the state has also placed at
their disposition sums aggregating So
millions. They discounted about $40
million francs Of farmers paper I'M
that year ..,.s. H. .....~-. d.. ~
We not only help tie farmer bat
We help to- train his children TO be
farmers-do all We can To attach them
10 the soil. We teach them the sci
entific part of grain and stock rails
ing, and OF butter and cheese max
ing. we show them how to keep farm
accounts so that they may know
whether they are making money out
of any given crop: the farmers daugh-
tiers are taught farm housekeeping
with special attention to the rational
utilization of foodstuffs: when We get
through with them they have no long
er any excuse for haphaZard or waste
full use of provisions.
War prices have helped the farm.
er in one direction and hampered him
in another. He gets the equivalent
of 1897 bushel for his wheat, or
AZ cents more than before the war.
He gets the equivalent of Sc cents
bushel .or oats as against "a cents
before the war, and, this year, the oat
crop was a record one. Wheat was
deficient as compared even to last
year, but the farmer probably realizes
more in cash than for last years
crop On the other hand he pays a
great deal more for all that he buys
fertilizers, fuel, salt, sugar, flour.
Difficulties Will Follow War
THE French farmer will after the
war still be beset By difficulties that
we must tighten Traction farm ma
thinery, now almost prohibitive in
price to The individual farmer, must be
provided to make 10 for the lack of
farm labor "..=-..
"The desertion of the farm for the
town nal long ago developed a crisis
that will be aggravated by the vast
age of war and the upheayal of con-
ditions afterwards; it is another of
the problems these syndicates are try
ing to solve. 49,. - =.
Farmers sons and simple farm
hands in the long watches in the
trenches alongside of the city boys
have. learned many things they never
knew about town life," NJ. Laujar-
diere thinks. Curiosity aroused by
tales of the town will draw them in |
even greater numbers than ever after
the war unless counter attractions are
provided. The syndicate proposes to !
make their life on the farm more at |
tractive by higher comfort in their
habitation and by such distractions as
are tralsportable from the city to the
country. ... - 49,.
Opposed to the alluring descrip- |
tons OF city life they will set forth |
the higher cost of living and the illu-
sorry character of the supposed town |
diversions. IL ~.s..... ~
Make Farm Homes Pleasant
THE new farm construction will be !
made more pleasing than before, and |
for the long winter evenings profitable
light occupations will be provided such |
as the manufacture of toys by men and |
lace by women, already tried in num- |
Der of localities with promising sue
cess.
The mutilated farmer-soldier will |
also require attention. Improved i'm
plements will be required to keep MIN |
at nome, and they will be provided. He
must have machines that can operate |
as easily and effectively as he did be-
fore his physical capacity was dimin-
ished
I'm working on that question We are |
at the same time contributing to the
movement for repopulation. The farm
er in France, we calculate, needs a |
child for each % acres of land, which !
is far above the average. We organ
ize competitions of large farmers fam
lilies. There were "a women in the
competition of the Syndicate of Loir
ct Cher in 1914 who had altogether |
given birth to 73S children, an aver
age of just about 10, and the children
already had given birth to 40.
THE organizers of these competi-
lions in which the recompenses are
purely honorary propose to go farther
and help the modest farm hand to &C
quire a little plot of ground of his
own that will attach him to the soil
and encourage him to raise family.
Farm hands, as rule, pay from
100 to $50 francs year rent for their
habitations The syndicate offers to
pay half that rent on the birth of the
third child, three-quarters on the birth
of the fifth, and all of it on the birth
of the sixth, in addition to the use of
one and a quarter acres of land in