El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-17


ment, for thinning out of the cities and settling up
Of the untitled country The government should take
advantage of the opportunity by encouraging rural develop
ent If necessary homestead regulations should be relaxed
favor of speedy settlement Of the land and the govern
meut should be prepared to subsdze men willing to farm
but lacking the money for start II the farm loan banks
unable under the law to provide enough funds Tor the
emergency
In the western states there are 24ooOooo0 of
allotted public lands awaiting settlement Every possible
bar should be let down and every facility provided for re-
claiming this land We good many millions Of
of tiIabe land in the southwest of under irrigation
projects Every which be irrigated should be under
cultivation in the next p months If individuals even
every facility offered should be persuaded take
this land sufficient numbers the government should fol-
low the nitiatve Of England in ensting men for farm
service cultivate the land under federal direction Or
the land not under irrigation projects millions Of acres can
cultivated by wells by dry farming be
used range lands cattle and sheep raising That
quTes capital and where It lacking the government should
be ready furnish financial backing under liberal
plan Congressional action would be needed but
ges now IN session Tor no other purpose than to pass re-
quired measures for the nations benefit.
Under the present homestead laws, any citizen Of the
United States who has not already located homestead may
take farming land TO 100 acres This applies TO
sTcted sections In unreamed sections he may apply for
$50 He has third option. He may take
up much $40 of grazing land
Patriotism and self interest ought to appeal Americans
IN cities TO go to the country and farm The nations need
great and VIII be greater This will be lost
by ships and food according to present indications That
to say, they VIII be the deciding factor
Every SIS week with few hundreds saved, read
ing Of the profits farmers maknghow, In many cases
they acquire financial independence five years
ought to take with himself following their
ample The always farmers-some
made out Of city gone to the farm with
inheritance methods and halfway farming
10 handicap them
Men with little money, either their loaned 10
them by banks the government; willing TO work
hard and study hard also; who viii regard farming
serious business be earnestly engaged in for the nations
good and their should return the land
when the need great and the opportunity unexceled
The southwest IS calling for farmers. So is that whole
great body Of territory which call the west The east and
the south have hundreds of thousands of FARMS half titled
untitled which may be bought for very small and
which need only fertilization and intelligent cultivation to
repay all the effort which may be devoted to them
This IS the time for great national effort By making
strong pull together the government and the people
make this emergency period of the greatest land reama
ton the country has known
And Of the first steps be taken accomplish this
IS TO excite the interest Of boys and girls farming; TO
them all elementary instruction. and TO train them the
limit Of their ability absorb farming knowledge The
knowledge should be put to practical School grounds
rural districts should be brought under cultivation wher
water IS available In the cities lots may be
reclaimed for vegetable gardens and back yards should have
their vegetable gardens their fruit berry bushes
The average family $50 500 year living
expense by culvatng small plot and planting vegetables
for table Children engaged IN this work sell the
surplus to negbors grocery prices make money
to be applied toward personal support.
1t is time when all cooperative effort will be necessary
There Is doubt about the impending shortage
Families who enjoy considerable regular income will feel