The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-17

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 Aboard Train. En Route from De- trolt to Washington, Nov. 17.-Hen- ry Ford has just given me an inter view in which he said
 lf the government will sell its Muscle Shoals project I will put the South on the map"
 Just what do you mean by that % I inquired.
 'I will give employment to a mill non men in the South," he replied: II will establish industries that will have a beneficfa1 effect not only upon the South, but upon the whole coun- try. I will extract from the air ni- trates that will be sufficient in quan- tity to fertilize the entire cotton belt.
 Thomas A. Edison has been ready for the past month to go with me to Muscle Shoals and give me expert ad- vice with regard to the nitrate plant MT. Edison and I will stat South the moment the government decides to turn the property over to me.
 "If the government will let me go to work at Muscle Shoals I will estab- fish a great aluminium plant in which aluminium will not only be extracted, but manufactured into machinery parts. I will establish plants in which cotton will be spun and woven into cloth.
 I will put to work every horse power that I can wiring out of Mus Gle Shoals, no matter how many plants 1t may take to consume it.
 Prom my experience in other places I have learned that one man is employed for each horsepower of shoals is good for 100000 horsepow CT. That is why I say that if the government will let me, I will put million men at work.
 'I will give the whole nation an object lesson not only in the use of water power, but in modern agri- culture. The country is full of un- used water power that should be har- fall of 400 feet in the Mississippi riv- CT between St. Louis and New Orleans and not a dam on the river.
 ''There should be at least dozen dams on this great stream. No land worth anything need be flowed. It is sufficient to install low dam and then take the water off at one side in @ great iron conduit and to carry along beside the river until the fall has been sufficient to run water wheels.
 30 feet across that runs through my farm at Dearborn, and from this small stream take between 300 and 400 horsepower. My little stream furnishes light and heat for my home and buildings and the rest of the cur rent is wired over to my Dearborn plant.
 ''How many homes could the Mis-
 
 verted into electricity? How many states could be fertilized with the nitrates that could be extracted? How many industries could be established be employed?
 .I tell you it is time that we awakened to the neglected opportun- jtieS that our country presents. It is time that we should do something more than complain of unemploy- ment. It is also time that we paid some attention. to modern methods of agriculture.
 ..Farmers may not know it. but the old methods of agriculture are about ready to go.
 ture are going to be bright snappy young men, from the cities They are going to make more money While devoting but a fraction of the time to agriculture that the old 1ashioned farmers rut in.
 .'Fully ninety per cent. of the far mers' work to-day is unnecessary They do not sufficiently fertilize their soil and they do not use enough ma chinery. I harvested three thousand acres of wheat on my Dearborn farm last summer and the operation re- quired just four days G +, awemiy rI on Gays an1 farm if it is done with machinery and in the right way.
 'The farmer of the very near flu ture will be man who will divide ms time among three occupations. Twen- ty days of each year he will devote to apriculture Five or ten days more he will devote to transportation, dur ing which he will load his produce on motor trucks and whirl them over good roads to his market. The rest of the year he will devote to industry bv which I mean he will be employ ed in a factory near his home. These factories do not at present exist 10 any great extent-but they are coming. l have IT factories in little towns Tn which I have been able to develop water power and am estaollshin2 ,,o~a aII inc time In these factories some of the minor parts of my auto- mobiles are made. One factory may he devoted wholly to the manufacture