The sun., 1919-10-14

implements, with -FOUR horses In place OF
two horses: crops In diversity to dis
tribute the work over the longest period
foi the season. and the business run as
q steady, all year round business.
And yet-and yet-let me break the
recently land perhaps now would
leave those farms and his magnificent
old farm home-leave 1t for town or
city professional or business life!-
were It not for the old family ties and
the community welfare; the home place
having been directly worked In the
Nixon family for q period Of seventy
years and more.
Why would he leave the farm? It
would be a question of money ana So
cial and educational advantages, all of
which you and / insist on having for
ourselves and loved onesi
Poor Returns TO Farmer.
II he paid himself a salary following
for his living tool he would not have q
fair return on the family money in
vested In the farms and equipment
II he took proper care of depreciation in
his inventory on January l and paid
himself and our family per cent. in
terest on the capital represented, he
would not have any salary or wages for
himself
Do you need the point to Be made
any clearer2
At the North Toronto farmers mar
lSet on Saturday, September 6. a farmer
"a neighbor to the one already quoted
In the foregolng) offered to sell a news
paper man his farm OF ITO acres a short
distance north of Toronto. say twelve
OF fourteen miles away, for $1,000.
aAn ordinary good farmer, after pay
Ing what farmer must pay in taxes,
running expenses, &C.. can count on u
per cent. on his capital invested in his
farm II he had It in Government war
bonds he would be receiving 5h per
cent.-and tax freei
Do you understand these facts?
1t Ii to be regretted that, the limits of
space will not allow of details in ex-
PLANTATION.
A u. F. o. candidate for the Ontario
Legislature, or for the House of Com
mons at Ottawa. would probably tell you
that this condition of affairs had been
brought about by the legislation, pro-
tective and otherwise, put into force
10y mob, or really highly organized
band OF lawyers and interested indus
trial business men-class legislation, the
farmer and the consuming masses re-
Satdless!
A Cabinet minister in the late Laurier
Government. defeated on the reciprocity
pact, made the exclamation to a friend
of mine the morning after the 1911 cleo
ton: John, the farmer Is an ass he is
going to be riddea; We may as well
get on and ride IL
The farmers have come to see the
truth in this light. Here you have the
great deep seated reason for the now
world-famous agrarian movement of the
Grain Growers of the West and of the
organizing United Farmers of Ontario
and of the Eastern provinces OF Canada
Quebec and the maritime provinces.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island.
Organized agriculture in Canada is
counting on getting at once a reason
able representation and balance of
power In the provincial Legislatures and
In Federal Government. 1t seeks to
speak out for itself and have some
needed part IN running it's own affairs
Farmers Needed I'm Council.
Business men, too, have come to ap-
preciate the need for this development.
and we find even such prominent men
as Mr.. George f. Roberts of the agri-
cultural commission OF the American
Bankers Association saying: THE
country needs not only a more scientific
and productive agriculture, but the calm
voice OF the farmer in all affairs"
Let me make II plain that the
awakened individual Canadian farmer Is
a farmer and is farming to-day only
because he would rather farm for less
than do other work for more
Safety In our national affairs. In busi-
ness and In all industry demands that
our agriculture. our farms and our
farm homes be made attractive-be
made reasonably lucrative and on an
equal footing with any other industry OF
Industries.
Farmers ask no favors; they will give
none-nor will they allow the never
ending granting of favors and protec-
tion that has been going on over many
years as In the past while they have
been working and sweating and carry
ing the great burden of the day, not
realizing why they shared, SO meag-ely
In the proceeds of what they produced
to feed mankind. They are going to
see to 1t that the spread-the great
CULTS narrowed up between them
selves as producers and the city and
town people as consumer of their
produce.
Enlightened business men are helping
along this movement. They choose to
view It as Lincoln might have done
seeing where the tide was leading and
helping his countrymen to go along
with il.
Eject of Eight Hour Day.
The eight hour day and all Saturday
on for department store and factory en-
ployees Saturday off during July and
August), as common in Toronto, now
that the lead has been given to Il by
our biggest merchandising octopus-the
eight hour day for civic employees, even
to the street sweepers, and the wages
and the boiled shirts and collars which
they demand-this eight hour day in
cities and in towns has added almost the
las straw to what farm hand will
stand and stay on a farm. Think of a
farmer. as In the case Of one I know OF
near Madoc. Ont. paying $40 a month
and board for hired man!
The eight hour day in town has foroad