Show W M RS EAST AND WEST A j as Massachusetts paper papel reports that there are v nf ous letters received every day dar by the Agrin Agri Agri- n cultural Experts Experts' association of of New England 5 a asking how bow cheap lands can be he obtained i ed and to y t. t extent the they can be obtained the obtained the worn out lands of of New England Englan aud and and they give as a rea rca sn that the land in the west is so high in price that hat th they cannot afford to buy it or have not the weans means And then a great many of them are a along along along long distance from market and freights On the railroads s are high At M the same time we can hardly conceive of a a. aman aman man nan living in the west and going to New Kew England to 10 bu buy a farm except that he be is New England born and having baying a competency he wants to go goback goback goback back and bu buy the tile home where he was horn born and with it the associations of his childhood d because 1 N New w England farms are ae not going to be very pro A man can live on one by working incessantly incessantly in in- he be and his children the whole household house house- lipid hold as the fathers grandfathers and-grandfathers worked and that is is' is the only way If he be sits down on one of those farms and hires bires laborers that will be justifiable justi if he is rich and wants to do it but as a mcney making proposition it is a problem that has been solved there solved there i is nothing to it C j In some places in th the tho west land is high but a amen amen men can make a living of off ten acres of good goodland goodland goodland land anywhere in ill the west that is not too far from the railroads if he has the water to irrigate the land And if he can plant him an or orchard hard and can make a 8 living outside of the orchard for seven or eight years rears as thi things gs are going now the orchard will keep keel him com comfortably However we d do not know how lon long that is going going go go going ing to last The farmers that first planted raisin grapes in Fresno Cal said to each other We We Ve will live along as best we can fO for three or four years and then we will raise ra raisins sins aid there never never yet et has b been en a time timo when th the demand for raisins raisins' did not exceed ed the supply But they found out in five years that they had so many raisins raisins that they could not sell them at a fair pr price ce and nd many of the them had to tear up their vineyards vine vine- yards We Ve fear it will be so with some of the men who buy young orchards in the west Our belief is they are held too high because even if the market remains remains remains re re- re- re mains as good as it is at present there are insects at work and the pitiless frost comes sometimes not on only to destroy the crop but the tho more tender trees And speaking of that the current Everybody's has a long article on the man who has made eastern eastern east east- em ern Florida He lie w nt there and started a railroad railroad rail rail- road south until he ran into the tho orange orchards where he lie expected to get a great revenue and tha that thai winter came th the great frost A great many people cople in Salt Lake remember it because they had orange groves there and were counting on going there after they got through the hard worlds world's work and spending their old age in the shad of the orange trees That frost destroyed the hope Then this man pushed his railroad farther r south to another point where the frost had never hover never been and he had hardly got his road there when another frost came and destroyed everything in that neighborhood Then he pushed the railroad on oIl to the Florida Keys and now a gr great greaf af many people are getting rich because he made the road down clown there for five acres of those oranges or those bananas or that Florida grape fruit will make male a poor man comfortable in a year Our thought is if a man has the means and likes farming it is a good plan to get a farm but not to depend altogether on one crop Some Sometimes jmes there is more money in an acre of potatoes than there is in an acre of oranges and it does not take half hal so long to raise it Sometimes there is more more money in an acre of apples than there is in an acre of peaches es and if the apples a are e sometimes killed by the frost the trees are not where if the frost is hard enough the peach trees go We imagine we hear some old farmer reading this and then explaining explaining- to his family that that fool up in THE TIlE TELEGRAM office is giving advice on something that he knows nothing about To such an one we say the advice does not cost anything any thing and then it is liable to be good because the writer has raised a few locusts and a few wireworms wireworms wire- wire worms himself in this country and knows something something something some some- thing about bugs and frost and what it costs to get get water to irrigate and nd a of things things' in that connection which if the farmer will come and see him he will give him advice that may be worth millions to him |