Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-10-08
FARMING

FARMING -. MIR. Hunters Way
After listening with a great deal of
disgust to all the talk about farmers
having no chance these days, | exper-
fenced somewhat of a thrill to read
about David Hunter of Iowa. vino mas
run SASS up into $4,000 in 20 years of
farming.
Mr.. Hunter is now As years old and
he celebrated his birthday by burning
paid-up mortgages for nearly S26, 900,
the money he had borrowed to buy
and equip the 160-acre farm. He also
rents a 360-acre farm and says that
he has made money every year but
one since 1916, when he started farm
ing.
This, to me, is just another evidence
that a good farmer can make a gooo
living on good land, anywhere, any
time.
MOVING to fertile soil
| have just sold my old, rocky hill
side farm in Berkshire County, Massa-
chusetts and | am moving to a more
fertile and prosperous agricultural re-
sion, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
After spending a large part of my
Summer looking over this region
where generations of thrifty Quakers
and Pennsylvania Dutch" have made
themselves rich from farming and
their descendants are still making good
money from the soil, | am not sur
prised that so many generations of
New England youth have left its rocky
Mills to go into farming in the more
fertile regions lying between the Hud-
o River and the Great Plains.
There are still good farms and good
farmers in New England, but most of
them have a tough time of it. All New
England is becoming a sort of a ma
tional playground. Like France, New
England relies upon the tourist trade
for an increasing part of its income.
1t will always be to me the most beau
tiful part of the world.
PROXIMITY -. a factor
My main reason for moving, beyond
the fact hat | got more for my New
England property than it was worth, is
that | have to be in close touch with
New York, and Pennsylvania is less
than half as far away as Massachusetts,.
Few people realize how narrow the
State of New Jersey is. 1t is only 60
miles from the Hudson to the Della
ware, and both railway and highway
travel is much faster east and west
from New York than %northward.
Another thing | like about Pennsyl-
vania is that there is no state income
tax and property taxes are the lowest
| have ever heard of anywhere.
New Workers are just beginning to
discover that Northwestern Pennsyl-
vania is more accessible than Western
Connecticut or even Northern West
chester County, and real estate prices
have not begun to soar.
SPEED . . around the world
Nearly 60 years ago Jules Verne, the
French romantic novelist, wrote a
book called Around the World in 80
Days It was pure fiction.
Forty-five years ago a New York
newspaper woman who wrote under
the name Of Nellie Bly,, set out to beat
that time. She got around the world
in II days, using only the regular
means Of transportation available to
anybody.
Now two New York newspaper re-
porters have started to 60 around the
world in 20 days, still using regular
TRANSFORMATION lines all the way. They
flew East on the big airship Hinder
burg to Germany, thence they go by
plane to Rome, a train across Italy to
Brindisi, then a through plane to Hong
Kong with a few stopovers on the
way, by ship from Hong Kong to Man
lila, and then back across the Pacific
on the big new plane, the "China Clip
per-" to San Francisco, to catch the
night plane which will land them in
New York the following morning.