Show AN OPEN LETTER professor J W sanborn san born president of utah agricultural college and experimental station logan city dear sir your esteemed able and intelligent notes of january and published in NEWS feb 25 as aa answer to my open letter on the future farm published february fth are of a character to promise the benefits of your profound ability and insight in what you call the fundamental question ot of the hour if even only in an ab abbreviated form of an open letter correspondence between yourself and your humble servant CHRISTIAN A MADSEN I 1 agriculture AND THE NATION until of late our farming industry was considered almost unworthy of nat nation toDal al patronage and even today any effort to lift it in general estimation to its legitimate and proper place of national importance in justly en titled to pessimistic of Aie feat nevertheless compared with all other industries combined its national importance stands as 5 to 3 but notwithstanding this overwhelming preponderance farming as aa yet in the eyes of chuse who carry the balance of power in our legislative halls ball and executive departments is ignored slight ed d disregarded regarded Is crippled im impoverished depleted depreciated exhausted subjugated discriminated against ten canted by foreign capital now the capitalists main beast of burden and ot of prey and fur for a wonder a ter this condition of things for a generation the farmer is not yet nor placed under serfdom agriculture in our grand re republic lublic about a century ago it was founded by fifty six eix farmers and mechanics meo banios as compared with all other industries combine cum bind stands as 6 5 to 3 but in national patronage for a generation it has stood as I 1 to 15 think of it let for instance two bills come up in congress one a for commercial objects and one a bill for agricultural advancement would not the first bill have the best chance this diametrical reversal of true proportions la is a sickness of aur our republic I 1 in an ded hour the barons per emitted the far farming taing representative in our national cabinet and appropriations to agricultural colleges its graduates may la in time dethrone the barons and cure prevailing sicknesses in the body poli politic tio II 11 THE FUTURE FAUX FARM I 1 the most advanced systems in farming are the most remunerative because advantages are taken of natures laws most congenial and favorable to plant life and local con editions dit ions 2 the more productive an acre of land can be made in the same proportion the increase of population is in made possible and as a well to do and rising population is the source of national prosperity the enrichment of the soil to a great extent rules the advancement van cement of commonwealths a 8 advanced farming fosters footers and necessitates intelligent labor and this germinates kindred advancements in the sciences of life hence intelligent labor so tar secures national prosperity and greatness 4 therefore the farming population being about three eights of al the whole and by far preponderates ates iu in the army of producers producer by leading in popular intelligence it will lead the rest of the producing world onto on to intelligent and active participation la in the rise and glory of our great republic the future farm y therefore to is the anticipated cradle in part for the sons gone and daughters of our commonwealth which will reign in unparallel pros in handling this quee question tion for publication in the DESERET NEWS and for the sake of abbreviation it may be proper to use uee an aphoristic form of accepted data of long standing in agriculture in ID the first answer to professor san sa re borns letter of J an slat I 1 will present the following james B R reeve beeve of franklin ohio in his bis report to the agricultural department part ment 1888 page said that guthat each cultivated awe acre will be made to yield the greatest possible money product ducoit i the 06 natural end towards which we are now tending W why by is that object the natural end towards which we are now cow tending the answer to this question will to some mome extent also describe the outlines out linea of the future farm a history proves that in proportion to advancement advancement in real civilization and increase in pou lation tie te farms as they decreased in size became more productive 6 1 intensified farming to in the past history of the world was the outcome mainly of thealor the slow alow inert and sluggish impediments of empiricism while intensified progress in farming of today is led by the rational application of science the state Is now fostering aud and sustaining the exploration on grounds of undeveloped and unrevealed problems in agriculture 0 and today our agricultural ool col leges legee and experimental station stand out prominently and illustriously in the vanguard of national progress in lie 0 most boost important industry of all gri dult J re already the bulletins from utah agricultural college and experimental station under the able and nd distinguished leadership and of professor sanborn most moat handle the leading problems of today and besides educate a ghost host of young people ano will be in the future the graduates the prominent farmers and housekeepers emanated from the grand and patriotic institution and they will lead the van of progress and most likely improve in years what in proportion formerly took centuries to accomplish cl the real leaders will inaugurate intense farming the sympathizers follow and at last imitators imitators becot necessarily eardly cannot lead but they can imitate leaders when leaders have brought progressive measures into info shape babe and existence by the hidden inspiration of providence the sympathizers are the first to sustain leading measures but the position of a leader in advancements ot or commonwealths to is not particularly a public character I 1 in his bis line because leadership ant ami public objects are two different fac factors e the state object is an increasing and prosperous k population opu lation and not any particular design to exclude or obstruct the increase of population as a means of state prosperity the intensification of our farming industry opens the way for both population and its prosperity f wealth and luxury are relative dimensions by comparison luxury today may be but common conditions later on through advancement and general prosperity g on the same ground that one acre of land can be brought to its highest productiveness prod hotl hundreds and thousands of acres ORD can be improved to the same game degree but the size of farm best adapted for state and individual or population welfare is included in the main question before us do A impulse and preference of ownership in connection with the approximate average working ability of a rural family the economical div division of labor the necessary state efforts to avoid tenantry and encourage cooperation in order to build up a free coda community mu anity the cond conditions irions of fd erml ng lands and irrigation facilities etc etc will altogether rule the average size of i farms I 1 f feudal grasping efforts of domineering by excessive possession of land should be socially ostracized and legally impossible it should be well guarded against that modern feudalism have bave any influence in our legislative bodice k ass As a general thing no man can calm honestly make m re than a common living those who seem to make more with few exceptions take it ty by a lion lions lionis Is share in dealing ly by which somebody unavoidably has to suffer buffer the difference but experience teaches that existence is providentially so arranged that in equity a man cau can make an honest living by the sweat ot of his brow and as asto to grand Kingi Jacub Jacob he be did it by the work ot his wn awn hands ill III LOVE AT BOMB maybe that particularly in MOUD mountain fallo regions people inherit a beautiful poetic preference for the locality in which they grew up from their childhood and youth and we do inherit this intense love of home for the greater part through the exceeding beauty of nature that surrounds no leaving an impress upon the soul a longing into the mystic ideals of poetry when the fairies danced in the moonlight haze the night breeze sighed the zephyrs whispered and stillness BUll ness grow grew while I 1 listened in the groves on the meadows by the river the crystal splendor of the twilight glow reflecting the hope of a future glory when the gilded sops iopa and then the fading shadows of the friendly wasatch Waa atch bade goodnight goodnight to the valley below theoe thene memories and moods is the music of the soul the ideal enjoyments enjoy ments connected with and reflecting reflect ui the love jove for locality neighborhood and friends are like links joining ab with the valley we love so well 11 1 1 but woe unto the invader of their homes happiness hap pines and rights untiring vigilance will demand the account settled the love of home in the valley we love so well is oue one with the love iove of family of husband wife parents and children the parents desire to keep their children near by and the children do nut not want to be separated from their parents nor grand parents etc the result is that the children of the valley as much as possible settle at home the parents dividing inheritances with their children this will continue to diminish the size of the farm while science and necessity through the workings of a kind providence will conti continue oue to in crease its productiveness to which we as yet know of no limit |