Show aada it BACK TO THE FARM 1 VI farming the young mans opportunity by y c v GREGORY copyright 1 1910 by Amert Arner imn cu pr press asso dation I 1 0 the young man on the thresh TO old of life the question of what shall I 1 do with my s self elf cornea comes demanding an answer anmer during the past fifty years the mil call of the city to the you UK conn man ha has been lushi insistent tent today the country Is calling cailing for men with ambition and energy and faith falth in its possibilities to euch such men mea it offers on un equaled opportunity 4 the of the farm are 0 nut ot limited in wize size c extent the rho young man with capital who Is too looking k log 14 0 04 11 le 0 o pod pa 1 ot 04 HIS ills W WAT LT TO it al INT L WITH A LOAD OP or for a business opening tiodos it en on the farm the farm him the guity to exer elbe bi his executive abilia ability y by banagi va broad acre ac 9 and herds that in the thousands if Us his taste runs to quality rather than quan thy my it offers him chances in the pure bred stoll k business for the broadest use of his momy and talents thero there la is no occupation more wore fascinating than the molding of living animals to make them conform to an ideal of perfection there Is opportunity for long continued study of blood lines there are months and year years of anxious wait ing to thee the results of the union of certain families there are moments moment of disappointment when an animal falls to develop as well uell as expedited d nut but greatest of all ta is the joy of or success when the breeders bre edere efforts are cro crowned i ned with a an 11 ahlma I 1 a lit little t I 1 e nearer perfection than has ha been produced before the man who can see such an animal march match out of a crowded show ang with the purple ribbon without a feel ing that at least in it measure he be has achieved has ambitions that are indeed hard to satisfy the pure bred business has some pitfalls but to the man who enters it with good judg ment and an ambition to a succeed it offers financial returns that can be ex ceedee in few other occupations to the young man starting without capital the farm offer offers unc opportunities P port unities the young roan with a few friends and a reputation for in in austry and honesty finds it easy to rent a farm and borrow enough capi tal to equip it there Is a risk to run of course hut but what li 11 a risk to a young roan man with nith strength and ambi tion well con considered risks are essen bial to in it almost any line and to the youg your farmer they are an ancen tive to grater ar iter effort now bat that prices 0 of farm products have reached a prof table leel paying off the debt 1 la 4 a matter of but a tevi few yen buying the far farm it ef Is liy by no means impossible even in the most fertile sections section of the co corn belt hundreds hundred of f farmers are looking for 0 manager for o r farms that airy in size and equipment to suit the fancy of any ally one abis line offers some of the greatest gr patel opportunities to the young man without capital che fil ail arles nt at arst imy spent small as compiled comp ired with so aroe me of those tho off offered ered in the city at alev iv they include board aud and incident tale however there Is pt a better abante to lay jay up ull money on the farm at a month than in the city at a twice that for the man inan who c can on ejk make f good the first year x balart Is hardly an indication of nhat hat Is to follow most landowner are ar willing wilting to advance adrance the alary as 01 fast as R the matt aizer hows bi bis hetter better yet the imp rilling to truit more of the th p re to bi his hinds and to gly give li him inore eo 80 but that be itt an greater results in mo roost it raw rapps after a man mat has ha shown what be I 1 worth oreb it Is capy for him to get a abare of the nel nei profits 4 in addition in t his salary in dinv capes it 1 is paly 10 ret in on 01 a I r babi basis q in i ilsc ae the man manager Is as independent as if be owned the farm and the chances for financial are nearly dearly ax great the gnat advantage of a position poat loa ol 01 this kind or in fact of any kind ol 01 farm work I 1 that there are so 0 o many rhani chante e to invest money a as fast as it 11 Is 1 made the mau man oo 00 the farm has a dozen plara aa A to 10 every dollar this in 1 itself 10 8 bi t to saving and saving for bab the and the nation the invent chent whim which offers the rr greatest eales return returns I 1 Is farm land evro even la in those wb where 01 land iq now worth more then SIM ino an n arro tb be arlee limit tar from beto twin readied to is yet at w little t bitle ani t tu u I 1 10 t p wu money ney on und tand I 1 it Is 1 biely 1 in ested t it ula is the t in 6 1 knoW knowledge lede ut bat but constitute ll a tarm am t that b u t t foiw r I 1 k land a ud an a un sate safe for or the city man ibm there e uny ury I 1 bf some honest kanj out they bare hare ill trademark Lra demark to them from the other bety to buy land with out lit 8 it 14 1 a 11 painless way ot of part hard earned money aa As for ing in i ith the promas d pr olits they usually find their way to the pockets of the land agent leaving the investor a sadder and atger man between 10 1 and 1000 the average lacreuse in the value of the fa faa ro land in the d states was 38 per cent ceol between and 1910 1010 much of the land in the western part of the mississippi valley ralley doubled in value with a steu of farming that keeps up the fertility prices will go higher rither than lower the man who owns a farm has continual 01 01 to put a his money into better fences better stock and better buildings ile has opportunities to invest in more land at home or farther farher w u est f faoro rom a financial standpoint tanning farming offers opportunities to young men that are duplicated in few other callings farming as a profession Is new and its ranks arc are still far from full the young farmer Is not tnt tutoring ering an over crowded calling where he must combine bi with his bellows and d boost prices unnaturally in order to I 1 iua bare illing hi ing in agriculture alre are room an I 1 opportunity for all the country Is with the alt of a new awakened life the p 14 1 jintil tion and tin thi reward 1 it la Is not the call of money alone abit Is turning the ambitious young man inan to the farm calling that can offer no reward but a fidanc financial a one Is scarcely n the name the chief lef call of the tile city has been the call 0 of the dol lar far combined v auh jtb the call of the crowd better roads and a denser demser pot population have enabled the country to offer a social life which Is superior to that of the city higher prices and scientific methods have enabled it to duplicate the financial of the city in addition it offers to the youn young man the opportunity to live the broad est fullest life of which he be Is I 1 capable it offers otters him a busl nisa be can call hl hh ow own n and an independence which he tie could gain in the city only after a lifetime of toll the greatest need of most rural communities just now Is leaders men who can demonstrate on their own farms forms the possibilities of scientific agriculture men who understand the possibilities and arid the need of a broader community life the stories of some of the young men who heeded the call of the coun try and gave themselves to the devel of their community read like romances romance V dozen years or so ago a little community was on the downhill rad the nearby cities bad hail sapped it of its strength and vig 0 or r injudicious cropping bad had taken a awny way much of the fertility of ohp s HOI oil and the people had lost all ambi 1100 nd ind were content to let things drift from bad to worse about this time a 11 young man a R son of cne ono of the farmers graduated from an ali agrical tural college lie ile received a tempting offer from the department of a ticul ture to take up work at washington A brother in to iowa lovia wrote him a glowing invitation to como come to the fertile lands of the middle west ue rejected both offers and went home the most optimistic resident would have laughed at the idea of there being 1 any opportunity there gut but the young man aut beut to work lie ile did not lecture to tin the neighbor 1 or siddi w them he ile merely set out to show them what the impoverished tied land wa rii ell pable pablo of hi ili anade the old farm farin pay aid it than to an air of pr 1114 11 II neighbors gradually bt ati I 1 ifo follow hn methods and to attai at 11 sit of bi spirit the comma nit ulti tn go fi milard in tt atad a d af ba clard alls soon as he coull coul I 1 spare the tinn from his farm the young farmer si about it rl IRP itch 11 HP lip iv r of wv 1 4 f az 4 t d 1 lit 14 40 LINK LINY of fasullo Z taa THAN khz 1110 LIVI wauel his ills farm farni fr f r a school rarden alp in cited the lh grember out to ils bis fat m and kot got him in out of the alnio abere of dawl theology into int the spirit of living brogi ress abi rbi preacher caught the 1 nud id tap imal to be an at aid 1 the forward Cra gradually dually the whole became modernized rho people 61 d the to which they were blind until some ome me one opened their eye the young youn ira iren who can go izo into add 1 by hi bi lO courage roura an and d rong faith bring brin about a 4 banze talt bai succeeded in th III q true rue t 1 pen en of ih e W ord it 0 12 auve urr q of nf hi kind coups with the aureal Au resl of a if and a able competente compe tenee abat tb b counte f rr ft to the 1124 tolina mn of 0 |