South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-24

W J. VINCENT farm with -
dances and various athletic games
drudgery and uncertainty look like
a relic OF the dark ages.
The farm OF the future will be
much smaller in size than the farm
OF today. Some authorities claim
4o-aore plots will be the ideal size.
A large variety OF crops can and Will
be planted on them. Future farm
ers will raise more and more OF the
things they need for their own table
and will buy less canned goods.
They will dry and can their own
duc4s. such as fruits and vegeta-
rDes and the methods used viii be
less ir<some than OF today.
Smaller farms Will mean more
nelghbors and fewer isolated sec
tons. Community spirit will be de-
veloped 10 the extent that Saturday
night will not be town night" any
more than any other night.
Every township Will have a
large community house equipped
with up-to-date library. moving pic
lures and gymnasium where farm
short courses. community fairs.
dances and variuos thletic games
will give diversions that present
day farmers travel miles 10 the
cities 10 enjoy.
Community sires OF real value will
greatly increase productivity and
proportionately increase the value Of
herds
City conveniences will be avail
81 20 ~ D.. a
other electrical inventions will play
a most important part in making the
farm not only a convenient. but an
ideal place 20 live.
All available water coarses will be
harnessed and put to work for the
farmer. Streams that can be made
20 furnish water power will be DAM
med, and wires strung for miles
about furnishing sufficient power
at a negligible cost 10 run all farm
machinery and provide light and
heat 20 the farm homes.
Raising seed standards will great
facilitate larger crop yields. Sc
eting and planting Of only the most
perfect seed whether II be potato,
tomato, grains or what not will make
the small farm Of the future return
a much greater profit than the larg-
er one OF today
In the northern and colder sec
lions OF the country many food pro
ducts will be grown under glass the
year round This will eliminate a
great deal OF the drugery OF the can
ming sseason for the housewife.
Practically all public highways viii
be paved so years hence The high
cost OF poor roads is becoming more
evident daily and the rupture i'm
psssable road Will be almOsl as OBJ
sOlete as the horse-drawn street car.
Weeds will he practically elimin
ated. Perhaps some chemist wis
invent a substance harmful 10 weeds
and harmless 20 the soil that viii
make the old backbfealSing fight
AGAINST weeds a thing Of thepast
Line fences VIII disappear entire
~. " it'll four feet on each side OF
line fences going to waste. hundreds
OF acres OF land now being wasted
viii be utilized
More improvements and lower
costs for farm machinery VIII come
in the future. Thus actual drugery
Will be reduced 20 a minimum. and
crops Will receive more care and re-
turn greater prOflts.
Is this too much or a stretch for
the Imagination? II so, let Us think
back 80 years. Back 10 the days
before the telephone was in general
use before tractors. threshing ma
Dimes. hin6ers. tedde-s. silos. pa
~ato dsggers end the multiplicity OF
other farm equipment now cOnsid.
cred necessary 20 Eereral farming
mad been invented.
NJ doubt our fcrefatheus scoffcd
al every new invention and every
new suggestion that was calculated
20 make the farm more productive
ard farm work less distasteful. vel
progress marched onward and Away,
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These OF us today who are inter.
ested in agriculture and not care
fully watching the progres s.ve sep,
being made IN that. the greatest in
dustrv IN the worldly. viii. like oul
fOrbearers. be the losers