The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-07-23

the old-time relations between the
employer and the worker. The Am
erican farming regions form the
great reservoirs of traditional Amer
lean democracy.
Conditions Not What They Were.
And living conditions in the coun-
try are not what they were gener-
alton ago. A lot of our notions
about farm drudgery and hard living
and isolation are ideas carried over
from an earlier period, when there
were no electric lights, no bathtubs.
no rural free delivery, no good roads
to speak of, and when an automobile
on the farm was as rare as an air
plane today.
If you want to judge what the far
mer of today is buying for his home,
read the advertising in any of the
leading farm journals. 1t would not
pay the manufacturers of automobiles
and pianos to carry advertising in
farm papers if they were not selling
goods of that character to the read
ers; and when we find all kinds Of
luXuries and high grade necessities
advertised in the rural press it means
that there is a market for the things
that make living more comfortable
and easy.
Good roads and the automobile
have worked wonders in removing
the greatest hindrance to progress in
farming sections. The farmer. as a
rule, is no longer completely isolated,
but, generally speaking, is within
easy reach of some thriving, up-to-
date market center, and often with
IN motoring distance of great city.
Moreover, the movement to draw
the farmers together in social life
and community achievements is just
beginning. With the active help of
the Department of Agriculture and
the State agricultural colleges COM
munity enterprises are being pro-
noted so that the farmers may have
their clubhouses for recreation and
business.
The women are coming together
more and more to work for the social
life and to raise the standard of edu-
cation and culture.
The little red schoolhouse is giving
way rapidly to better buildings that
would look well in any city. Such
schools serve a large area and give
the farmers children the same edu-
cational advantages as the city chill
dren.
Initiative and New Ideas.
The best of it is that all these eff
forts for the betterment of country
life are in their early stages. There
is great opportunity for the young
man with initiative and new ideas to
help make his community just what
he wants it to be. And that is a lot
more fun than finding something
ready-made awaiting you.
The business of agriculture is diff
ferent from that of most industries.
1t gives the all-around man a chance
to use his talents. 1t is not a mat
ter of doing the same thing over and
over again day after day as in some
factories, for every month and every
day brings its own special problems
on the farm, and the man who is in
genious and clever at doing a variety
of things has a chance to make good
In taking a job on farm, look for
one that offers employment for at
least nine months of the year. While
it may not be possible to get job
for the full IL months Chat is not
topics as marketing, cost accounting,
Find out where the nearest agricul-
tural college is located and arrange
to take during the slack period the
short course, which runs ~ or II
weeks during the winter.
In these institutions tuition is free
to citizens of the state, and the sub
Jects taught include such practical
matters as stock judging and feeding,
soils and field crops, and under the
subject of farm management, such
topics as marketing, cost accounting,
and other business details of farm
operation. Under farm engineering
there is a course in the operation of
farm machinery and implements, in
GLIDING tractors, also the planning of
farm buildings and the general lay
ing out of the land to secure the best
results.
1t will be seen that with nine
months of practical work in the year
and three months of training in the
agricultural college, man who
wants to get ahead can become
scientific farmer while he is saving
up the capital to become an owner.
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