Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-01-02
AVERAGE INCOME
OF FARMERS IS
SMALL, ASSERTS
Kansas Agriculturists Have
Not made Over 80 Cents
an Hour During the Last
Ten Years, Expert Says

te-s- ASPSoeet ~ -fAoho.t voh' Nh6it
culture will long continue to be
the chief concern of Kansas. The
enrichment ana advancement of
this basic industry calls for the
best leadership in the sciences that
serve the farm and farm lives"
says Chancellor Ernest H. Linley,
of the University Of Kansas, Law
renee, writing in the current num-
Der of Capper farm paper pub
lished here. "From sheer financial
interest, Kansas should not be con-
tent with anything short of the best.
Statistics show that agriculture has
not yielded very high return to
the farmer. 1t is estimated that
the average income Of farmers in
the last ten years has not exceeded
40 cents an hour.
"The economic disadvantage of
the farmer Is warning to the
whole nation. 1t threatens to
sourceful farmers. Nothing but the
rapid rise of farm values would
have kept these men on the SOIL"
Chancellor Lindley, the new Il
u. head, was president of the COM
bined agricultural college and unit
versity in Idaho prior to coming to
Kansas in July OF last year.
'The average farm life is not at
tractive IL the public schools and
the institutions. of higher educa-
tion in the state are not equal to
those Of neighboring states," Doc
tor Lindley continues. "Kansas
needs her best youth and should
seek to retain them. Generous pro-
vision for education from rural
school through the university con-
stitutes, therefore, a necessary and
profitable investment.
Must Invest In Education.
"Kansas today ranks twenty-
seventh among the states in public
school systems. In expenditure for
higher education, it has been
passed by most of the northern
states ana also by Oklahoma and
Arkansas. Kansas must invest
quickly and heavily in education II
1t is to take its proper place. II 1t
does not pay for higher education
it will pay more in the loss of
promising youth and the gradual
impairment of the vision which
has characterized It's citizens.
There are three aspects to agri-
culture. The first is farm practice,
which involves at it's best the most
effective means of producing the
best and most profitable crops. The
second is farm management. Farm !.
ing has become complicated busi-
ness which calls for bookkeeping,
for cost accounting and careful
supervision of detail. In addition,
farming also involves the problem
of marketing. The third aspect
is farm life The farmer and his
family should find on the farm
favorable conditions for the per-
tonal development of every MEM
ber of the family group. This In
wolves educational and social pro-
visions. In order to make their
life more attractive, the rural
school should be more effective
and the community life more slim
ulating. No farmer who has as
pirations for his children will much
longer be content with inferiof
school and reighborhood condi-
tions which have survived from the
pioneer days.
can increase in the number of
consumers improves the market for
farm products. This can not come
to Kansas without an increase IN
the size of cities which can not
grow without industries. The
farmer, therefore, has a great
stake in the industrial development
Of the cities.of Kansas. The indus
trial survey of the state now in
progress by the school of engineer
ing of the University of Kansas, re-
yeals great possibilities of indus
trial enterprise.
Make Life Worth Living.
"Supreme emphasis, however.
should be placed on possibilities Oh
farm life In every progressive COM
munity In the state. What use are
profits il the home life fails 60
Weld the great values which make
life worth living. To obtain these
values. Kansas must plan wisely
and fearlessly for her rural schools
everywhere in the country should
prevail salary schedules compara-
Bile to those of the best city schoois'
IN many states this Is made pos
sible through state aid.
The University of Kansas mas
made and is preparing to make
great contribution in agricultural
development. The college OF lib
eral arts, the schools of medicine
engineering and fine arts and the
extension division supply essential
elements of the desirable life on
fi,e farm. Above everything else,
the modern university trains lead
ership Of the state without which
natural resources Of every kind will
remain undeveloped. The exten-
sifn division carries to every am
bitious man or woman in the state
an opportunity to make the great
calling OF agriculture comparable
in attractiveness to life in the