The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-03
Country viii be Thickly criss-crossed
With Paved Roads Over Which
viii be Carried Local
Freight.
HAVE ELECTRIC PLANTS
Nearly All Farm Houses Will Have
Stations from Which They Can
Get observation-disclosures
Farm Machinery.

Here from the Wichita Beacon, says
the Charleston, S. c. News and Cour-
ier, is picture of farming in Kansas
fifty years hence as the Beacon be-
lieves that it will probably be con-
Quoted:
In 1869 the state will be thickly
Icris-crossed with paved roads over
which will be carried in trucks all the
| local freight-then multiplied ten or
fifty fold-including short hauls from
farm to the nearest market.
| Practically every farm house will
have its electric plant or station for
light and power and motors will have
| taken the place of probably
electric motors operated by an inn.
proved storage battery. Electric cur
rent from mountain streams and large
central power stations will do away
with small plants and with most OF
| the small coal, gas and oil using
| plants.
! 'Airplanes and swift automobiles
, will bring the city to the farm and the
/ farm to the city. Motion picture the
aires and other entertainments,
churches and schools will be accessi-
[ BILE to ALL City and country life will
be so closely interviewer that farmers
may live in the city or business men
on the farm, and there will be no back
4 to the soil problem because there will
be little or no distinction between the
)! farmer and the town man. Farming
will be just as much business as is
manufacturing or merchandising. New
alignments will be made. The old ar
itificial distinctions and prejudices will
largely disappear through closer CON.
+, tracts and better feeling will prevail. :"
! Predicts South Will Benefit, Too.
"Ten years ago the average man in
South Carolina would have smiled de-
lrisively at such forecast, and would
have set down any one making it as
an idle day-dreamer. The changes of
a decade have taught us that the
changes here foretold for the popu'
lous middle western state are not too
much to expect here also II only we
are up and doing and refuse to let the
procession pass us by. So.
| It is motor driven engine which
| is Transforming farm life in Kansas,
and which can transform it in South
| Carolina too The decline of planta-
ton life began when men started NOV
ing away from the country in search
of companionship and advantages for
their wives and childfen. Now the
automobile is bringing about a new
situation. Distance no longer counts
as it used to do. When the days
work is done on the farm, or fully in
hand, the farmer can jump in his ma
chine and take his wife and children
to visit friends, or to town to see
picture Instead of having to start
home from town well before shutdown,
many farmers now wait until nearly
shutdown to go to town.
OF course the ability to do this is
predicated on having good roads. In
those parts of South Carolina where
the roads have been improved it is
common sight now to see three or
four hundred automobiles, a majority
of them owned by farmers, parked in
the neighborhood Of the moving pic
ture theatres at or 10 o'clock at
night. The greatest handicap which the
coast country has today against it's
settlement and development is the
lack in this section of first class high
ways disable the year around and in all
kinds of weather Give us the high
ways and we will have here the same
sort of civilization the Wichita paper
predicts for Kansas.