The daily star-mirror., 1923-06-22
THE SMALLER FARM

The conditions which the farmer il
facing and has faced for some time
are going to bring about new methods
on the farm and ultimately, without
doubt, work out to the advantage OF
a majority of the farmers themselves
The war conditions took many men
away from the farm, and this, with
the high price of grain, encouraged
wheat raising on an extensive scale
and checked the livestock and small
suited in the farmer using his credit,
in order to finance his extensive
operations The present conditions
have a tendency in the opposite di-
price of the one big farm crop, wheat,
is low, and money is not so easily
secured, in big amounts, as it was in
1918 and 1919. The farmer therefore,
to operate on a smaller scale and with
a greater diversity of products, doing
most of his own work, or having it
done within his family, and, to get
away from the help shortage, cooper
ate with his neighbors in some of the
work The result will be, within a
few years, smaller farms, better titled
farms, and more people making their
living from the farm. 1t will also,
without doubt, mean more farmers
operating on scale which will
enable them to finance their own
operations, or very nearly so. This
would all be practical in a district
like that surrounding Moscow, where
almost any product can be grown,
and with the larger rural population
would come greater prosperity in the
agricultural town, better schools and |
churches and a better condition gen
orally.
Along this line The Kooskia Noun
taineer has the following to say:
POSSIBLY, yes, probably as one
result of after-the-war experiences,
of farm holdings will be de-
finitely checked and farms, reduced to
a size commensurate with the ability |
Of the owners to till them success
fully without much regard to the
money market or the general labor
supply. Such a change from the
methods usually pursued in recent
years will bring about more intensive
culture and greater diversification of
.rops and, will necessitate a gradual
cutting up the baronies, now called
big FARMS" into tracts of a size to
istent recourse to bank stimulation. !
When this occurs. more farmers will
'e required in order that no produc-
i've land shall lie idle, more farms
yill compel an increased population
] the agricultural districts.
The crying need of Idaho today
for people enough to develop to
otentiality of the state. The time S
hen that will occur may be far in 3
le future but it will come, and one 6
f the most hopeful signs of it's ap-
roach is the return of farmers to
lie successful system of relying upon :
lemselves to accomplish their pur- =
)ses" Il
"a "a 70
Once more a committee of eminent
sntlemen representing the churches ~
Is called upon the president to ap-
sal for Armenia. One editor sus- 81
,cts there must be hollows in the II
hite House doorstep worn by the N
ct of those who have crossed it in -
half of Armenia. But every year =
ere is less of Armenia left to ap- y
al for Not that any president ever s,
rms a deaf ear toward the pleas Ii
r Armenia. Though there was no A
port of Mr.. Harding's reply, it may
fely be assumed that he deplored III
lat he called in June, 1920, the -.
emingly unending tragedy of Ar -,
,nia." Give it a few years more, "
d it will end-in the extinction of :.
blic.
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Why NOT BACK YOUR BANK?
That hard-headed man who sits II
It to the railing and mods coldly
you, even though you have had an
cunt there for years, is not fish
md, ready to do you service if you -.