El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-18

. market their products without an eX-
! pcnse that eats up this profit
Popping the land then becomes "a
I question of scientific farming and sci
/ entiflc narketin=- What ever will help
E TO bring this about Is a very desirable
. factor in any back TO the land move
/ ment Rural credits. more than any
, other institution has brought this
& about in Europe. And the question is
! whether rural credits can do as much
! for America.
What Are Rural Credits:
"Eural credits are modified credits
/ procured by modified farmers and
, backed by modified security That is
} TO say. instead Of each farmer borrow
! ing for himself and putting up his in
. otvldual land mortgage all the farm
+ ers in the community pool their loan
I IN one large community loan and pool
( their mortgages In what really
+ amounts = one large blanket security.
They thus form in effect a large i'm
. dursrial corporation and float big loans
+ and they get their money just as
+ cheaply as do all industrial cornora-
, tions which float big loans Big loans
3 always bring cheap interest when
D properly secured y thousand organ
I lied farmers can do more for each
Z IMAM one unorEaniZed farmer can do
! for himself and the cheap credit thus
J secured has enabled the European
, farmer 10 secure the money TO scienti-
J ideally and lntenSIvely cultivate the
I SOIL and make one acre produce what
I ten acres produced before and TO mar
/ ket his products with the minimum OF
! expense. thereby giving him the maxi
/ mum profit. The hard thing in Europe
) was 10 mobilize the farmer the mohi-
I lied money at cheap rate OF interest
auto,mIaticaily followed and this is the
B problem IN America
Man Witk"-,. Capitol.
~ wv can young men without capital
Z wishing 10 engage in farming for
themselves. be enabled to do 500" was
the question ". NJ Jardin. dean OF the
. } kansas Agricultural ro1far~a oil
! The two greatest assets Of any ma
ton are Its young men and the fertil-
lt[ or IT'S soil. said he when these
{ two assets are not properly linked to-
Ecther. the nation is confronted by a
problem that. II neglected. viii surely
lead 20 national disaster From 1900
I 10 1910 the agricultural population in
creased by slightly more than 100000
! OF which only 100000 were farmers
Z while over 500 Geo were farm labor
, ers- In 1900 there was a hired farm
. laborer for every three farmers. while
T in 1910 there was one for every IS
farmers
These figures show that TT IS crow
Ing more and more lifficult 20 become
I farmer and thus that most Of those
who want 20 stay 'u tho farm must be
F content 10 do SO as mere farm labor
erS-
Men Leaving The Farm.
Because Of these discoura ginS pros
poets instead OF our brilliant Young
men remaining on the farms. an in
most productive part Of mans life
falls IN the age period Of 20 to -
! years II We examine the figures We
: find that so many Young men have left
Z the farms and taken Up work in the
: city that the proportion in number or
/ persons Of ages from 20 20 - years
is . Dor cent greater in the urban
than the agricultural districts Of the
I nation.
Why Young Men DO Not STAY
! "The ideal way 70 farm Is for the
~ Ia q - h
I a stimulation that induces \ man TO Dc
: his best II enables him 20 have a pride
/ In his work and i'm the community be-
/ cause he intends to stay in the 81 me
3 place wear afr.- wear Ever Young
Z man has natural desire 20 become the
E owner or a farm. II Is one or the con-
. ditions upon which he will undertake
/ farming. II the prospects or becoming
! an owner Of the farm in n reasonable
! length of time are poor he chooses
some other line and quits the farra-
Keeping Boys ON Farm-
7 "lf VIC are going TO connect MP our
young men with the soil credit must
he provided 50 that these young men
Z can start TO farm and the values OF
! farms must be based on their use for
I productive purposes and not on amin
creased price based on an additional
tahlish a system fOr helping yOune
; men u connect up with the soil anC
then 10 as rapidly as possible become
owners We are going TO boost for an
and for more and more farm labOrers
The net result viii be 10 drive more
and more OF our young men TO the
cities
TenantinE Is Bad
I'm less than a half century Of farm
ing chiefly because OF speculation On
farm land and its evil influences OF
farming oue-third OF the native feItil-
ity OF the soil q soil very rich TO be-
gin with. has already been exhausted
Hand In hand with the increase DO
d
soil fertility is the decrease i'm acre
3 production. The acre production TODAY
IL spite Of the fact that our knowledge
OF crop production and soil manage
meDr has increased many fold over
what 81 was 80 years ago. is necomiuc
smaller every year and this with a cor
responding increase in the cost of pro-
W. talk OF cooperation credit. mar
kcr1nE and better rural churches AND
I schools. but figures show that the
. tenants take little. II any. interest in
organizations Of This character Where
two out OF every five farmers are NOV
: ing every other. or every third. year
10 is Impossible TO have larcc enough
. number OF people To organize really
. successfully organizations"
Resolutions Committee Named.
Secretary Hooker then announced the
appointment IF the following memotr'
OF tine resolutions committee ar large
" s. tombstone Of California and
Richard W. Young OF Utah
Judge VIII T. King. chief counsel oil
the reclamation service. spoke or 'Th.
: Future OF Reclamation Finance" IT.
I said
/ --One hundred and twenty millions
, of dollars have been spent 10y the TO
! clamatiou service There Is no per
maneut FUND for the building of future
: products II bonds could be sold tn'
money 10 be used by the farmer ~
/ the upbuildinS Of the land the gov
crumcut would receive permancn
= benefit only in this department doe
the money expended by the govern
F mcut return to its Golfers. The recla
nation service has this additional bur
& den thrust upon it.-Or seeing that tn
money expended is returned
What proposition may we adVanc'
10 convince congress Of the value o
the continuation Of this work Thu
idea has been advanced. to mortgae
the completed projects. 10 obtain fund
for future works Some suggest tina
The government make the surveys, ant
no project be constructed until gov
eminent engineers have passed il a
feasible. and then let the private inter
ests finance the project