The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-11

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wish to take it up / shall make al
outline which l believe will cove
the subject and be of a help in study
ing the same. Following is the out
line:
|. Production.
2. Marketing.
8. Buying supplies and nipple
ments. s
4. Financial or credit extent.
D.. Transportation and communica
tion.
We may class the farmers under
a similar issue.
l. The old farmer.
2. The new farmer.
g.. The moss back.
BY giving this little outline a few
moments study in your usual man.
ner of calculation, you can readily
see the need of all.
Mr.. Butterfield, a farm writer.
claims the study of farm life has not
had much attention and also saws
they don't compare Justly when
speaking of country and city. The
city problem ID one of suggestion
while the country, is one of isolation,
and the farm isolation is real evil.
We may all agree with him in the
matter of organization as an i'm
portant factor of today, but at the
same time worse evils are found in
the class of farmers that | have
mentioned. For instance the moss
back. He feels absolutely no re-
sponsibility; is always condemning
progressive achievement; is like
a tack in your shoe-not pleasant at
all; has influence in curtailing ex-
pansion of all modern development.
Imagine the condition of modern
progressive if we were to let this
class have full say.
81 believe I called on one of these
farmers while l was visiting last
week. Doubtless you have ali done
the same, but with different inten-
tons than | had. After little chat
about the weather and the damned
crooked potato buyers the price of
butter, eggs and tobacco he said he
did not see what was going to hap
pen to this country if it did not
change. Every thing was wrong
nothing right. l asked him to take
me over his farm and he agreed.
SO we set out for the explorations.
He lead me to straw stack and
started to ascent when three or four
horses, COWS and pigs made their
hasty escape. Well, we viewed the
farm from there; farm implements
were lying carelessly in every d.
rection. A good gang plow stood |
ready for spring work frozen solid |
IN the earth. asked how the pillow
came to acquire such a position for
he winter. WE'LL he replied. my
leighbors here are all crooks and the |
blow is much safer solidly frozen
n the ground than in the she'd II
'annot take space to tell all, but l
passed the opinion that in this case
he farm was of more consequence
han the farmer. During our
neanders about the place l observed
nat good attention was paid to three
n four big, ugly hounds that evil
lently sized me up for good meal.
Economic need nor any other need
this particular farmer.
II travelled for a long time and
listed great many farms and
armers before coming in contact
With another such moss back
ut is amusing to notice how much
ONE men know about their farms
nd all that is connected with them,
nd others just the contrary. II
sked one very bright and prosperous
armer how many farm there were
the United States, and farm work.
RS, also manufacturers, and he
Kissed it farther than I thought he
1ould. There,w were in 1910, six mill
on farms, ten million farm workers
nd seven million factory work.
rs. 1t may be well to know that
ur farms are not decreasing in size
rapidly as our native white work
rs. In 1850 they averaged 2O3
cres; 1860 1879; in 1870, f53; in
$50, "a; in 1900, lat and in 1910,
38. While the size Of our families
ave shown something like this for
le same period 1850, Sc and in ,
BIO, AS (this Includes the par .
lts.) 1t looks like we soon won't :
ave any native farmers unless our
bod psychologists impress the value
srpectuating the parental love. /;
| found but very few of our
rmers practicing economy, other
ian those who were compelled to do :
}. They all said, Hoover has gone l
Europe !
Here are some questions, that g
ere asked me-, what happens when 7
farm article gets scarce? Ans, h
becomes more in demand. 2.
hat is an economic good? Ans, 6
Is one we have to put forth special +
fort to produce. 3. What governs g
mans wages? Ans. A man can't q
mand any more wages than he is
birth to society, as interest brings r.
pital under better management. 4
found many farmers that had too
UGH machinery and were still buy a
g merely to out-do his neighbor. g,
lsked some of these If they believed "
the law Of diminishing returns q.
d after explaining it to some, they a
agreed but still insisted on having n,
Q most machinery of any one
Ound.
II visited several farmers that
list confess were we'll beyond ex-
rf q fi0nS nf fha ynodorv