The twice-a-week Twin Falls times., 1917-10-25

that farm OF his, of properly conduct
ing the experiments in his labratOry
demands the keenest judgment and
broad understanding OF most every
thing in general. ITO plan and esti- |
mate and put through a seasons cam
paign is, as every farmer knows. a
big jOb'-So comments the Country
Gentleman. ITO figure out soil pos
sibilities. crop necessities and equip
ment, to balance the uncertainties of
weather and market against bank ac-
count; TO make allowance for probable
losses. and to keep things moving so
that nothing gets into a jam is a job
for a good man To work with living
things of vast and only half-guessed
cOmplexity, each with its own limita-
tions and peculiarities; to juggle with
the laws of heredity; to be worthy of
the responsibility for the use and up
keep of piece of fertile land, are the
things TO tempt a great ambition"
In farming we have a profession
that deals with the feeding and nour-
ishing of the human race in all the
phases of its needs. In theology, we
have a profession dealing with the
soul and its relations to things divine.
To theology the world looks for its
spiritual food and livelihood To med
icine the world looks for it's cures and
relief from its pains. To law the
world looks for its mutual order and
social organization and the solutions
of its great social problems. But to
the farm, theology, medicine, law, and
every trade and profession and all the
people look for their existence.
The demand upon the farmer in this
present crisis is the most momentous
that has ever been levied Continu-
ally the government crys to the far
mer for more grain, greater acreage,
bigger crops Not only one nation
looks to them for its maintenance but
all the world, and millions of men
engaged in no other occupation than
that of destruction for the sake of
great cause cry to the farmer for their
bread and provision.
The present day former has no
time to waste in experiment, nor in
educating help to assist him in meet
ing the demands of the world. He
must buckle down to a vast reality, to
concrete necessity. The demand of
the world is imperative and will toll
crate no delay in the answer
But with this call to meet the hun
cry crys of a world engaged in no
better pursuit than destruction, des-
truction because only blood can bring
the world back again to its own be-
cause only sacrifice can overcome the
evil forces of evil minds and desires
and conceptions, and restore the prin-
ciples of right, arises also the most
serious handicaps to successful and
extensive farming that the farmer has
ever met.
He must put out a bigger supply
with less equipment to do so, and un-
der greater expense from high priced
labor, and high priced machinery. BE
| fore the war experienced farm hands
were hard enough to get, and they
could always find employment" But
now the farmer must be satisfied with
unskilled labor Laborers fresh from
the cities, who have never in their
lives, perhaps worked on farm. Such
help is necessarily costly, both in
time and in money. In every way the
farmer is today handicapped, when
from all points of the compass de-
mands for his help in increased pro
duction. But the question of skilled
labor is with the farmer one of the
most serious questions of his present
position.
Perhaps the government, will rise
to his need by establishing training
points for farm hands, where young
men from the cities, inexperienced
and unqualified for farm life, can IL
few months learn the necessary ru
diments of farm labor.
The educated farmer of today, il
this present crisis will stand out su
preme as a scientist of the creates
= merit He will double the origina
and common output of his lands, h
will run the biggest business of hi
life, he will solve more world prob
lens, command greater respect, ant
e. during this war will come into hi
r. own as follower of the greatest an
one of the most learned profession
of the age.