The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-01-08
LEAVING FARMS
FOR THE CITIES


they did few years ago. The same
day the announcement was made that
William c. Brown, president of the
New York Central Railroad Company,
had resigned and was going back to
his farm in Iowa. For some years
President Brown has been giving care
full study to the problem. whose an
swer will tell why the cost of food pro-
ducts has so greatly increased in re-
cent years. He has been anxious, first
of all, to know the cause of this in
crease so that he may be ready by
example and precept to point the way
in some measure to the remedy. His
Investigations have convinced him that
one of the causes. if not the chief
cause, of this increase in the cost of
some of the necessaries of life is due
to the surrender of the soil by those
who used to cultivate it so that they
might take up vocations in cities and,
in addition to that, the Discrimination
of the younger generation to make
agriculture vocation.
President Brown, therefore, estab-
lished great farms in New York state
so that he might thereby teach les
son of intensive farming, make a de-
monStration of what reasonable pro-
fits may be expected from that kind
of soil cultivation and, furthermore,
show that there are great areas Of
uncultivated land in many parts of
the country east of the Mississi~ni,
and especially east of the Aleganies,
which, under wise tillage and with an
eye to the nearest and best markets,
would be able greatly to increase the
production of grain and meat and
other food. Upon his own farm in
Iowa President Brown expects, if the
report of his purposes which his
friends make is correct, to demon.
strate how easy it is greatly to i'm
prove the quality and increase the
quantity of the products of the soil
Land In Abundance.
A few days after these two publ
cations, one telling of the increased
cost Of food and the other of the early
return Of President Brown to the farm
We're published the chief executive Of
the New Haven Railroad system, How
ard Elliott, spoke to a great gathering
at New Haven, CT. 1t was presumed
before his address was heard that it
would be devoted entirely to the rela-
ton of the New Haven Railroad sys-
tenn to the interests of the people of
Connecticut. That IMPRESSION was
correct, although Mr.. Elliott argued
from somewhat different premise
than any of his hearers probably had
thought he would employ. He is in
perfect sympathy with President
brown. with President Finley. of the
Southern Railroad with PresidentRea.
OF the Pennsylvania and with other
chief executives Of the great railroad
systems Of the United States, respect
inc the Increase in the cost of food.
All are convinced that the chief cause
OF this 2"reao"d cost is to be found
IN the determination of so many of
the reonIo either to quit or to ignore
the farm and to conoregate in masses
IN he great Industrial and manufac-
turing communities.
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President Finley is quoted as haY-
ing said to his friends that there is
uuncultlV2ted land enough in the Gulf
States of the South to furnish, undes
cultivation. all the food the people IF
the United States need, excepting, of
course, that which is produced in tro-
peal countries. Mr.. Elliott told his
800 listeners at New Haven, men as a
whole representing the industrial ana
commercial interests of that state,
that the little State of Connecticut.
which has an area of only 5000 square
niles, would be able. were its unculti-
V2ted lands developed to agriculture
and We're its cultivated lands COMPEL
ed by wise intensive methods to yield
what they could Weld, to feed the
whole population of the state. 1t used
to be an agriculture! community
chiefly. There is no state in the IN
ion and probably very few districts in
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