| Show A CO OPERATION cooperation IN FARMING JOHN W bookwalter of oh has an article in the september forma entitled the farmers farmer isolation and the remedy av in it he states that th the greatest discontent prevails among tato agricultural cl classes assep and that the tec dency of the farming population jw a flock into large cities this he cox siders a very serious matter and worthy of national concern and to search for its cause is a public pubic d duty 1 he claims that the farmers share tar in the benefits accruing from advance addan ment in art and science than an any y 0 osbar class and of the sum of hun human LIU aar adr vantages which are the product abc I 1 property ro perty of the ageg age the farmer ii relatively less as his bis share than elfr formerly had T mr bookwalter has had practical experience as a farmer from boyhood he enters into the question of far in a matter of fact manner ab ehule conclusively by statistics mad by sound logic that the far farmery I 1 loaf t the whole to is not an enviable one his bis opinion the chief difficulty di of fi farming class arises from the lack association and operation cooperation co the lav of united effort the diffusion rath ratum than the concentration of energy H reason of this the farming is placed at a disadvantage in it the g arah industry contest in which other ordinate coordinate co industries by virtue their capability for thorough con conceit and organization have a v vern great advantage the american former farmer has not wj the problem of combined ac action under the present system each aen ate farmhouse farm house bouse loan is an isolated comm corn mi ity and a law unto itself the acono loss however mr bookwalter book waiter chii is 13 but a trifle compared wt liia the waste of social ene eneid from this waste comes the hunger hu the heart and too often the atrio of the intellect from this also conn the weariness which renders farm carmea sons and even farmers wives di dilcox tented so as a remedy for this dreary atau of farm existence which at pro I 1 prevails re vails mr bookwalter would gata the isolated farmers of a tract A favi miles square into a central farm vi vil laoo of one hundred families th aff under such a system he says wool be threefold the purely physical physic sil tin intellectual and anal the social and m he then goes on to show how tb the lage bakery laundry butcher and other similar institutions could made to prosper and yet be a benefit to individual families famille 6 persons in the intellectual the village club the evening aab sc the debating society and kindred in i would flourish and give young man at howe hoire the and enjoyment which he now seme seek fi the large city mr bookwalter is preparing W demonstrate how the need that he ift pointed out in his article may be eab plied by establishing farm la nebraska the first of these wal wille built on a tract of 12 acres in nee county the land will be divil into farms of elu eighty h ty acres each wh in the centre of the tract will be village consisting of houses one house for every farm mr bookwalter is doubt doubtlessly lewdy abt in saying that the dreariness and of country life as aa it exists existe in ake united states drives many of toe the nth th of f both sexes into the city aw w 1 ever ver in closely settled districts ere la Is no reason why the village club ff 4 debating society should not exist berthe er the existing regime there is reason why the farmers wife and ahter abter could not visit their neigh ing g sisters and indulge in social it t occasionally ally in fact there is no eon 11 why all that mr bookwalter vests esto could not be reduced to jawork work under present circumstances but t the scheme he outlines is the ernson ern xon rp theory and to a large exit the cM mormon ormon practice such buch oro might be made on a line and our g muni ties which have the dounda wibb ion laid and all the facilities at hand r the improvement end and ad advancement aich the gentleman desires for the 1 awers might profit by the hints he be rows Ws out and enjoy life better make tor ter progress and be more useful ibera bers of society by adopting the walona tiong of such thinkers as well as rood advice they receive from arces nearer home |
