Show THEN AND NOW The farmers on the road byroad acres in the cast east do donot donot donot not know very much of what farming was not so very long ago I A South Dakota writer sa says s As far as you can 1 sec see through the thin clear atmosphere of the sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine state you Jou will discover lights all moving slowly but hut steadily in straight lines Every Everyone one of I the moving mong lights belongs to a plow or rather to a aset aset aset I set of plows and with each outfit is a steam traction traction trac trac- tion engine eight twelve sixteen even twenty plows trail the powerful engine as it moves deliberately deliberately deliberately across the prairie Horses cannot work four twenty hours a day but iron and steel can Thus the plows are kept going night and day and the old fashioned plowman is obsolete That is but one change Machines cut the meadows the patent stacker picks up the hay and when the barn barnor or Ol stack is reached unloads it When the harvest hanest grows golden the combined reaper and thresher goes to the field and all man has to do do is IS to take care of the sacked grain as it comes from the ma ma- chine The planting is done by ly machinery there is no m more lre hoeing corn a corn a machine does that The cows are milked by machiner machinery the old fashioned churn is discarded and all the the fat of the buttermilk buttermilk buttermilk butter butter- milk is stolen awa away by bJ the separator So it goes through h all the departments of farming farmin The Themen Themen Themen men who fort forty years ears ago were content to ride once a week in a a. bu buggy gr to church now plow and harrow and plant and mow and reap with a buggy bugg and go to church in an automobile The winter apples are arc not picked by bJ machinery but we are expecting ex ex- pectin every e day that they will ill be The feed for forthe forthe forthe the animals is ig cut and ground by machinery machiner the sheep are arc sh sheared ared by br machinery and the modern modem groom does not clean his horse with brush and curry comb but clips him But the cider is no sweeter than it was arc are the mo modern orn farmers farmer's s girls and there is no mOll mor joy in finding a red ear of corn orn at a shucking bell bee beethan than there was was was' of old And judging b by the r recent debates on the tariff machine politicians are arc not superior to lo the oW oh stately class who got their first inspiration on the farm and anI thou then pursuing the habits of industry which the they acquired there advanced until when they the spoke the world the world stopped to listen |