Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 6 | Looking for Farms in the East

Locking for Farms in the East. Less Is heard about abandoned farms i In M atjsaehuiaet tf? now that so many of our waste places have been taken up by city poopie for country homes, or by the foreign-born who are 11101 e and more leaving mill woi k to acquire farms. Thesn newcomers to the country brinp Old World standards of toil, and every member mem-ber of such a household does his or her part. When our forebears were subduing the earth In this state such industry was a necessity to the situation, and so it Is now with these people who must make a second conquest of land which had been permitted to recede for lack of attention. These Polanders or people of other nationalities na-tionalities are making more than a living. The wants of such families are small in comparison with those of native owners of farms, and the srowinsjly -difficult problem of help Is provided for by large families. From these beginnings a desirable de-sirable eloment of citizenship, taught In the local schools, is growing, A man like the Rev. Dr. F. K. Km rich, the Congregational Congre-gational bishop of the rural regions of this state, conies to know through personal per-sonal contact how valuable an asset Massachusetts possesses in this part of her rising generation. Over fn New York state there' would appear to be more farm land available for purchase. A statement by the commissioner com-missioner of agriculture shows an increasing in-creasing demand for farms, and that the inquiries come largely from the west, where agricultural opportunities are supposed sup-posed to be most inviting. We are told that improved roadways, gqod markets, advanced methods of cultivation and of treating the soil, promising larger returns to the farmer, aro among the influences that are turning attention to agriculture in the Empire state. The commissioner reports that Inquiries ' about New York farms come from prospective buyers in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Indiana, South Dakota and Washington. Wash-ington. The new interest In rural life which is manifested in that state, as well as in Massachusetts, Is a good deal responsible for the' growing appreciation of the fact that there are excellent chances for profitable living on the farms. People who have grown weary of the flat country of the west can be made co look longingly upon the hills and streams that easterners tend to undervalue, and that is one of the reasons why New York's commissioner of agriculture sees something some-thing like a "back from the west" movement. move-ment. Springfield Republican.