The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-17
AMERICAN FARMERS
NON-CO-OPERATIVE
As contrasted with the European Farm
er Who Believes in Concerted Effort
to Get the Best Out of the Land.

lei Paso. Tex, Oct. l7.-If the Ameri-
can farmer can cooperate and II the
rural credits law can be fully adapted to
American conditions the farm area OF the
United States will support twice the pop.
nlation dry.farming and irrigation VIII
omen new areas, and there will be back
10th land stampede" said Prof II. Nj.
Colyin in an address before the inter-
national irrigation congress here to-day
Speaking on the origin and growth OF
rural credits, he outlined their purpose
bv saving. "The modified farmer gets
modified money at very low rate OF
interest by modified security" The es'
sential factor is the mvbilizatien OF the
farmer.
Reviewing the terms of the rural cred.
It's bill. and questioning whether it would
work we'll in America. he said; 4.
unlike Austria, the government OF
the United States does not compel the
American farmer to join these eo'opera-
tive groups and thereby secure his ru'
raj credit, and many doubters are OF the
opinion that the character OF the Amer
ican farmer is such that he cannot be
induced to cooperate on the all Tor eaeh
and each for all basis necessary to make
rural credits success They point out
that the environment of the European
farmer has made him essentially CO.
oneratiye citizen. There each farmer
does not live upon his farm but each
farmer lives in farm village to which
he resorts each evening at the close oil
the days work; in the village ne en-
ioys community life that is not en-
loved by the American farmer who IS $50.
lated on his farm. The farm lands OF
America are continually changing hands
and the average residence on farm lasts
Int five wears. The same farm stays IN
the same family for many generations IN
Europe and there is so much intermar'
rage that in some farm villages everyone
is related to everyone else.
"There is not this continuity OF owner
ship and winding power OF blood II
American rural communities. All mem
hers of the family, including the womer
Land children, work in the fields and a.
harvest times relatives to the thirty-sec
and cousins pitch in and help. II
America the women and children DO no
work in the field and even exchange o
Ibelp nj harvest times has passed ava,
and crops are harvested by transien
hired help. Unit activity on the part o
Enropean farmers is made natural an'
easy bv the fact that all members o
the farm community belong to the sam
race. In America there may be a dozel
uationalities in one rural community. Al
members of a rural community IN Eu
rome believe in the same religion and be
Hong to the same church, while in Amer
lea there are many religious sects in tn
same rural community. This standar
of living of the European farmer is mue
more simple than that Of the America
! farmer and at the close OF the crop yea
| he has more proportionate money lett :
! nav his interest and reduce his prlnel
!. tpai.
, "The European farmer has been er
, yironed into a cooperative man In
. American farmer has been enVironed INT
e a non operative man. He has MOI
initiative than his European brother an
f is much more independent in his thought
and acts. However his pioneering exp'
!, rience has given him high grade OF II
;. telligence. The question is will his II
o tellicrnce overcome his non-co-operatll
nature and will he avail himself OF III
: advantage offered him by the rural cree
e il system initiated by our government
o The skeptic answers this question: NC
" Let us hope the skeptic is wrong