| Show Home Town Helps LIVE LIVE IN FARM EEl V Western Plan That Still Further D DAway DAway DAway D Away With the Loneliness of the Farm In the newly irrigated regions of west tho the government is laying model farm villages and the exp ment has novel features which m ma it an nn interesting study methods and the certainty of wa make possible large crops on a sm area and the plan Is to hn have ve the far farers farers ers and their families centralized small communities within easy acce of their outlying farms In the Sun River valley Montan for Instance 20 towns are now bel bei laid out six miles apart so that r I i. i farmer even if he lives in the mo mo 1 remote corner of his farm is mo moi than three miles from the school church stores and offices of the vi lage Moreover the towns are con connected netted by trolley lines the power b be being Ing supplied by the irrigation canal which furnish water and power for lot the farms There is a similar arrangement i 1 southern Idaho where thousands people have found homes i an have prospered In a region whit was absolutely desolate and un uninhabited uninhabited Inhabited a few years ago I This plan eliminates the and many disadvantages of farm life where the homes are far apart and many miles from a city r r 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 n natural tural conditions and slow development The older farming communities of the country will watch with interest the government program in this matter matter mat mat- ter for in fn it they will find hints for forthe forthe forthe the solution of their own problems problems- probably toward the happy settlement settlement settle settle- ment of which long steps have been taken within the past generation Youths Youth's Companion |
