The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-13
NEVER GREATER OPPORTUNITY
FOR MAN ON LAND THAN NOW
Intelligent Direction, Thrift and In
dustry Necessary-Organization
and Cooperation Urged

The following timely address to the
man on the land can be read with
profit. 1t will, however, prove profit
less unless he thinks and acts on the
advice. DIR. Holland, of the Washing
ton State College has given this mat
ter serious thought and arrived at
conclusions that must appeal to every
farmer who reads and thinks. The
profit in farming lies not so mucl in
making a crop as in saving by-pro-
ducts and stopping waste. Late crops
that can not mature should be con-
verted into ensilage and fed to cows,
hogs, horses and other stock. The
immature and unmarketable fruit
should not be allowed to rot on the
ground, but should be canned, dried
or preserved in some marketable way.
Read what DIR. Holland says about the
future outlook for the man on the
land.
The expansion of the U. S. mer-
chant marine should have immediate
and beneficial effects upon the busi-
ness of farming in America, and the
reasons for this are fairly obvious.
We all know that the markets Of
the American farmer have, in the
past, been too completely circum-
scribed by our national boundary lines.
I refer, of course, not so much to the
sale of farm produce, as such, as to
the products of American manufac-
ture, the basis of which are the raw
farm products.
The union between the farmer and
the manufacturer is readily apparent.
If the farmers apples, berries and
vegetables are always to be sold as
they come from the tree, the bush, or
the ground, and not in the almost in
finite forms of manufactured by-pro-
ducts of which this produce is capa-
BILE; if the farmers wool must remain
merely wool, instead of being manu-
factured into the great variety of val
liable textiles of which wool is capa-
BILE; if the farmers cereals must al
ways be sold in America as cereals,
and not in the form of flours and
meals of which these cereals are cap
able; if, in a word, there is no manu-
featuring industry in this country to
use the raw produce of the farm, for
which the farmers are paid, what is
to become of the farmer?
But if there is no market for the
manufactured produce, what is to be-
come of the manufacturer And what
is a market worth to us if it is on the
remote shores of Kipling's seven seas,
and we have not the ships with which
to reach it?
Undoubtedly, the American farmer
should be interested in a large mer-
chant marine for America. With the
coming of this marine he, as well as
America and the world in general,
will be confronted by greater oppor-
tunities and larger responsibilities.
The farmers will be the immediate
beneficiaries of the new merchant ma
rine. But to speak the truth, the
benefits they receive will depend
largely upon the farmers themselves,
through the solidarity, completeness
and efficiency of their organizations,
and upon the intelligence, right-mind-
edness, and persistence with which
they go seeking. Not much comes to
anyone who sits down and awaits its
approach, and this is true not only of
agricultural producers, but of all.
The need of proper organization of
the agricultural forces of the country
has always been felt. Now the need
is crucial. Unless the farmer, whose
post is at the beginning of all in
dustrial production, approaches the
coming period of reconstruction with
solid, well-directed organizations, a
growing world may pass him by.