| Show NEEDED AGRICULTURAL REVIVAL Intelligent Methods of Husbandry Augment I Earning Power and Prosperity of the lie Farmer I II I HE desirability of oC maintaining THE T II a and intelligent ru rural ral rai population In this country countr Is generally recognized The Tho condition of at time the nation nallon would ho neither r politically nor sound Bound the tho Now V York Tribune Tribuna editor holds hollis If the wore were 80 50 con congested congested tn iii the tho cities 3 as to destroy the thu reasonable balance ot of conservatism anti radicalism m put our at the tho merc mercy of It the tho restless native anti and foreIgn elements clements which i congregate In Industrial centers anti leave these centers conters without the tho ode ade background on which their healthy health life lito must d depend Tribune editor seems to think with man many other strong thinkers that the nation needs strong recruits recruit tram from time tho farm tarm to carry on the tho great work ot of the da day In iii till nil lines of at political and activity There Thero Is much oils sorrow orrow he ov over r the drift tram from the tho farm Wo o want n a drift from the tarm farm In Just the tho measure that the tho farm overflows with men and women elsewhere limit wo we nl also o want the tho farm tarm to continuo continue to do strong Intelligent people and to hold Its own as an eid for tor a 1 fair proportion of them their How Howit It can bo be made malle to 10 do this Is the problem lent lem Some Somo have thought to do 10 It by rural free freo lie delivery 11 e ry telephones anti other I to make the farmer contented with an approach to tIme tho convenience of at life lite In cities The Tho true solution Is however tIon It dos does not In making young oun men and women think they are arl arlI I having ns as good a time as In InI I time the city but In making It po possible for fort t them hem to earn more titan than tho they could coull I t In time tho city Irot Knapp who has hasI I done ciano so PO much moth to convert the tho Mil bali Wee we vii 11 from a CUriO to n a In somo bouthern states put the tho point I iy In his the tho other lay before the Southern conference nt at T when ho saM sail that rural depopulation would continue as long ns as tho power was live times that ot of tIme tho tarot tarm In bere r There Is the tho problem The Tho old oil taah fash farmer una ma think the solution hopeless but Prof Knapp shows that It Is perfectly easy If our people wilt will only emily o up to the tho pos possibilities ot of In IntellIgent intelligent and progressive cultivation ot of tIme the soil Boll lie declares that turo yields each tach aura arm laborer In Vor mont In Iowa Iown 1088 1058 In south Carolina In North Carolina In iii Alabama Only In Iowa Is the farm laborers productive power equal to that of at the mechanic and that Is not b because cause of superior no na natural tural productiveness ness ot of the tho In iii spite of at Its great care must bo be given to drainage In Town but ot of moro more gent cultivation In lawn Iowa there are tour four horses to ono one man Inan working on the farm tarm In South Carolina one mule muleto to every two workers The Iowans livestock Is worth 1214 and his hIli farm Implements The rho Carolinians live lIe livestock stock Is worth arid his 43 The of at farming Is In the largo large crop secured by the extra labor beyond what will produce an average crop It Is the first bale of at cotton or orthe time the fIrst 20 bushels of at wheat to the nero acre which co costs s just as B I it Is time tha first chair from Cram the tho Statistics show that lIh cotton at 7 cents the tho man mal who raises halt half II a hale balo actually losses while ho makes an IncreasIng profit as he pushes hi crop from one to two hales bales ns as ho can do h by getting good seed and Riving giving good tillage The Iowa farmer Jut five times as much power on hIs plough as the tho CarolinIan and he not live but eight times the result Dr says 11 that with due allow once anNJ for tor short hort and failures tM the south can make II a gaIn ot of per por cent cant in In the tha next term ten years year What I Is true of the south Is true In only a less degree QC of the whole country Good OoM seed moro more power and 1053 hand work morn thorough moro more cure care to markets In time the se ee ot of crops and th the packing ot of short hort time brInGing to the tho farm of at the spirit intelligence of the alert at least double the returns froni farming even evenIn evenin In our most advanced states Denmark In Europe Europa and Canada on this sIde of at atthe the witter vater have set Us nn an example In revolutionizing their and substituting prosperity for tor depression We can do as much and the tho conferences and the tho education boards can perform no more worthY service than to promote a campaign for tor better botter farming In ever every state ot of the tho UnIon It would be nn an educational and patriotic as well as II no nn economic eam for tor n a tat fat land lInd with II a agricultural population means nn an Intel intelligent able ablo aol willing to I support good schools and faithful to the tho duties ot of citizenship he be i cause It has much to lose front bad bod government Utah with Its educational forces should be a leader In this movement for tor better Jetter and more Intelligent husband husbandry ry rIP It has too many halt half tilled fields i and too man many farmers who wonder If i farming Is worth while simply be because I I cause they do not really know how bow to toI I farm tarm I With the tho educational Impetus gIven agriculture In some of at the higher schools ot of the state the tho business o 0 farming should become the tho most pros prosperous porous vocation In Utah As above the most potent reason for tor young men ot of ability leaving the tho farm Is that other othor lines ot of ell erm deavor offer after better remuneration with whim better opportunIties for fOl mental growth and which this affords Given plenty or of employment on the farm tarm with hours ot of labor r regulated on 01 business principles and the to 10 earn as much on the tho turin tarm us elsewhere few tew boys and men would lea leave e the turin tarm fur ter the tho store mine workshop or railroad With time nt at attractions tractions of good pay and toss or ory the movement would rather bo be from the city to the tho farm tarm The Utah college and amt the tho Young college at lAgan Legari at al also atso so the tho Brigham university It at have hae largo large classes In agriculture lure ture anti are Iril h it 10 exalt to II a higher plane nt and to aug augment snout ment the tho earning power of at the tho farmer Such InstructIon Is given the students aim enable them to do better belter In iii farming than can bo be done Ilono In any other legitimate line of oC bUill ness With the tho opportunities now offered In man mummy tines such as tiry forming fruit grong husban arid sugar lugar beet raising few toV busInesses oCter more Induce Inducements meats ments J 4 |
