Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06

leases we encourage the most A.
structive system of farming ~
in this country or in any other oo, wv
try. e'un'
English farms are titled aln..,
wholly by tenants and vet Enn,s,
soil has steadily increased in fo..''
ity during the last 100 years T'r
stock farming has reached its h.,
est development in England
farms titled by tenants. VI
"A rented farm in this corn..
means a run down farm. II ~
farm with poor buildings, few fo,.
es, and no conveniences. The ~
ant could not, if he would. kaer ~
stock. He couldn't afford to rotaS.
crops and intercept alfalfa. Glove"
and COW peas with corn. wheat -,
oats, even if he wanted to do ca ~
will not be there next year VIII.
uoSS ~ MAKE 10 MIN how
much the fields are washed or wor,
through carelessness and neglectp
Generally, successful men u,.
have been able to accumulate q con.
potency move to town. They knom
the soil of their farms as no ono a..
KNOWS it. They usually take an
active interest in the management :,
the farm by the tenant, encourage
him to get good seed, help him nlsD
his cropping system and his work 90
that the land is. we'll prepared and
the seeding done on time.
But in the course of time this ev.
perienced farmer and landlord mass.
es away and the farm is divided
among the heirs, one Of whom !.
likely to be the local banker, anotb.
er the superintendent of schools i,
a city 100 miles away, and the third
the wife of the pastor of the church
in another county or of local mer-
chant, lawyer, or physician.
These new prOprietors know III.
tie about farming except what thew
remember of their earlier farm ey.
periences, and they are absorbed
with their own problems and duties
Under our system of leasing the ten.
ants who received such careful and
valuable instruction from the older
farmer have long since moved away
and a new man, who is wholly un-
acquainted with the land and per.
haps of limited farm and business
experience, is on the land directed
by these inexperienced and otherwise
busy landowners. The result is
bound to be relatively low income
Tenancy is in many respects an
evil but if evil, it is not all evil, for
there are good tenants and well as
poor ones. Then, under our present
system of land tenure, tenancy is
necessary ana inevitable.
Live stock farming does not favor
the development of the tenant sys-
TEN and where live stock is general
ly grown in this country few tenants
are found. Where the tenant comes
into live stock regions the herds are
soon dispersed, the pastures are
plowed and planted TO grain, and the
barns and fences fall into decay.
In England under a system of
tenancy, live stock farming has
reached higher degree of develop
ment than in any other country. But
the system of leasing in England is
very different from that prevailing
in this country.
In every country of Europe land
has been improved in fertility with
in the last half century. In this
period we have wasted the Am erican
soil at rate far beyond that of any
C'ASA PNOPiO vi any pCOpiO III ohS
other age.
This has been due partly to the
fact that we have had labor-saving,
efficient machinery with which to till
our soil and in part to the fact that
the American farm has to be cleared,
paid for and improved out of the SOIL
and for the most part within this
period. The quickest and surest way
to raise money with which to meet
the interest and principal of a mort
gage or with which to build a home
barn, fences, silos, and windmills IS
TO pillow the life out of the land"