| Show LIVE IN FARM VILLAGES western plan that still further does away with the loneliness of the farm in the newly irrigated regions ot of the west the government Is laying out model farm villages and the experiment has novel features which mako make it an interesting study intensive methods and the certainty of water make pos possible large crops on a small area and the plan la is to have the farmers and their families centralized in small communities within easy access of their outlying farms in the sun river valley montana for instance 20 towns are now being laid out six miles apart so that no farmer even it if ho he lives in the most remote corner of his bis farm la is more than three miles from the school church stores and offices of the village moreover the towns are connected by trolley lines the power be ing supplied by the irrigation canals which furnish water and power for the farms thero Is a similar arrangement in southern idaho where thousands of people have found homes and have prospered in a region which was absolutely desolate and uninhabited d a few years ago this plan ian eliminates the loneliness and many disadvantages of farm life where the homes are tar far apart and many miles from a city or village of course it Is only possible in a new country where the town Is arbitrarily located and made to order and not the result of natural conditions and slow development the older farming communities of the country will watch with interest the government program in this matter for in it they will find hints for the solution of their own problems probably toward the happy settlement of which long steps have been taken within the past generation youths companion |
