Show BACK TO I 1 THE fue FARM 99 IX the city man as a fanner farmer ey BY C V GRaG olky copyright COpy richt 1810 oy DY annerl american an press aeo ass par 1 back tu to thu cho land move meat la Is dot nut confined merely to keeping the people pi ople on the farms who are already there although this is 1 the most important part of the problem leaL the ans b and girls born und and reared to in the country hare have a better appreciation of its problem eras and if its possibilities than a city bred mao man or woman could ever havo bavo yet there are many country boya boys born with a taste for machinery that noth ing out but a factory can coo ever satisfy ther there are many bora born with the ability to handle meo men that might make them the bead of or a great mercantile es tab lish ll ment the city aped needs mea men of this kind and the country can well afford to spare them for it Is for the good of the nation that they should so go at the game me time there are many city boro born boy nod girls to whom the air of the crowded streets seems stifling they love ovo tho country and they belong there there are others who through no fault of their own have never b been n able to get higher than tha n the alt to remd lad of the in ladder d I 1 er the fierce competition for place places has bag left them well nigh stranded with them it Is a question of staying in thi city at nt a pit tanco tance that w are ardly ely suffices to mal a 3 tain life in deboney or of going to the country and making a comfortable living tb thi fable of the th daisy who tried to change pine with the ro ae 1 often ir ot mi J 4 pik Z at r 4 11 ak k dimic 01 04 A SMALL FARM quoted to diw outage euch inch people from casting their Ortilla es in with cho coultry abe cases 3 where the city man and hi 4 family have bean success 3 fully transplanted trans panted to the country are too nairn rous i to warrant the assume aloa that it cannot be done at the bunje tie time it must be admitted that are in the wita the alstet transition Is made by clip coin try boy who b d brown row n tired t 0 of f alty sed fo alia life HP ile 1 I u used to th tho e war 41 of the farm and nod it till be a short task tor for him to learn the tie new W methods method and tak take up clip th furrow at the point where he 14 1 ft it it few yeam ago go for the man nian who bai haq lived all his tits life in the city rity the proposition Is altogether different and anti much more with alt ile ie has hall nil all the way of the new life alf to gearu fie la is unused to country life and country customs WOM of all fill he tip 1 to country method if a it man listens too cred to to the land hark who tells him hin I 1 that ou on the farm be pro proposes popes to ell 11 I 1 dionn are all flo perfect that a of the soil mill tit bring forth bountiful i di appoint ta 1 it aure to follow rhe real maate tate men tire it ID the buil 1 na tor for money alid if it they can imke mike a sale sal I 1 IT v minimizing the need of for flir toina they anre going to do it fr arming 1 comp oed of three virts IM be an art and the bil of the thrpo the latter 14 the only on thit hit the tb art ange city matt know uchin 1 artl rame i that apply it to any line of or IM tulni tul ni hold good on the clip airm corn com rion and n mir amount of ixil hui if the ebler rn atah ti 4 in ill handling the bul bull nw oe end rf ef farming chero the art and the fit e or i iouna nartu y the t 1 plate to letiro abe hinr tice if far tiang 1 Is in to a school or 4 colleg r pi college OIT offer the crowt ct course of instruction ibis ON lint A consider alie share it f the be enrollment at the tolleif col leif 14 t ninde tip of city boy who are there I 1 iaru the science e of tarui farm lug 1 I 1 hav known many of these naile made city farm a combination that would have shocked tho practical ruan of the past generation into dinst ni n i I 1 have known many of them to so to farming or to follow tollow some line of work closely related to far martillus farrol tillus tig and I 1 bate yet to v w toe first fl t failure allure i college education means a chosid erable cost in to both time and money tb the city mao man who wants to turu turn farm er seldom has a very large supply of the latter to such men into the secondary condary to baumes in or short coans blake i P bi appeal A eb ab rt onre of A year far or two years in will go a long ou D or 1 I re r 1 e toward grounding the city farmer way uy agricot ID in the principles of scientific ture cure bieu 11 ucb a cour 14 the city lity ble fg the in gret greater tier men va nn b seethe eee atie opportune opp opportunities ties of farm life and would like to become farmers a course of the nest next beet best thing homo holm aoudy A number of agricultural colleges offer courses in to by means of which the erlewe of agriculture can be earned learned quite thoroughly aben en there are a great number of station bulletins which mav and anti government be bad for the asking there are many boots on agriculture in its various twin bunches clies last but by n no means least there la Is the agricultural prees press much of the advancement thit that has been made in agriculture la Is due to the agricultural papers they stand for all that Is best and most progressive in rural life and they contain a fund of information on methods of farra practice that are invaluable to a beginner jt remains the art of farm ing that Is the art of handling the plow of caring tor for the horses of feed ing the cows of regulating the machinery and the thousand and one other things that the farmer must know bow to 10 lo do the only w way ay the ar nr of farming can an be learned I 1 b by T foe beat way tor for the city man with limited capital to learn Is to hire out to some good farmer by the month k barm arm help Is scarce and farmers ai tit always glad to get faithful men at sit fair wages they prefer skilled men but bill ita these re are often Impost impossible ible to obtain it Is 14 not dot ai fit all for a it 40 other industrious city nun matt who itally wants to learn farming to ti get a job with a good farmer in such a place he be can learn team bow how to to meet beet all the emergencies that come up on a farm it Is 14 even easier for a married man to get this sort of job than it la Is for a single man farmer farmers have a theory which Is generally correct coi cot that married meu are more to be depended upon many of them are willing to furnish a e house and garden u t A man for the sake of getting one with 1 x family vitally after spending i year u or two work ing for some one else the would be farmer will rill have hare a fairly good idea of the art of farming if he has been putting in hia his spare pare moments studying he all bae a fair understanding of the science of farming ilia ills own corn coin won sense ant and the training ho be ba has 4 received in town will tit him illin to handle the he business end ue 1 now in a po torl where he lie can plan on going to work for dinwit ahlm if he lie will have bare saed sa ed cd something froin from bis wages while on the farm and nod he probably had a little money noneY lived up before aben comes the question of whether to buy or to rent A good many beginners in 1 farni far ing inalle the ml stale e of eving tving all their CUPI till up uti in land and laving baring noth ing left for stcl and equipment in order to malle it the farm NY the farmer must turn hare plenty of working capital it Is 1 visually isu ally better to rent for a few years year until enough money has bren been saved to make a fair payment on the land a farm an be bought without robbing the equipment fund abe question of where to locate la is an important one and one w h the conflicting mass of evidence makes hard bard to det ide the irrigated districts of the wt w at st offer some of the best tuni ties to bf be found anywhere the country la li new and settlers are wel met come arnd Is high but tt it doea does not take tale much touch of it ro to yield a good living the dry farming districts district of the west est have bare be bem ben n V 1 idly boomed this dry farming lad 1401 la 14 d ol an be bought very cheaply it costs cost little to get a start at the same time the runn man who goes on a tit dry forta must remember r that only half halt ot of ba his land will yield a arop eab va b pir par not mon th thin in a third of it the principle of arv fargou Is tu to cultivate the land for a at or two without TIt bOut sowing a rw 11 this prevents the rain which rills 1114 fruit and by the ko sto nd nl ur or third reir enough moisture will gilve been stored up to raise a crop no one should think of going ou on u dry farm without having enough morar laid by to pay expenses for or twi two ur or three years yeam without any tiny in ca coma 1 I dr farming means mean many 1 and nod much discouragement but the sun qu ess ot of many dry farmers proves prote thai that li it opportunities to th the man ho IW ba has 4 the courage to stick rhe fertile lands 4 of the middle went wept h anre I 1 r t teen 1 tittle little advertised of late and inand epli are or of the opinion that this pirt of the tilt country Is already alread fully fettled this Is far from belay atit t ohp alley valley could port foar to ir or tire uv ti times tia A its present 1 far tiong population with lelle ind land Is a ill hiim b but it Is worth the price the middle wt W t offers the advantage of nel neighbors ghiors good ebu churches relies 0 14 and anti tolle tol colleges leges sms nod anti modern on 4 ot of every sort rbee u are re thua sands of charris for the city mail in this lection tu in tb the vw probably the best tunit tep are found folind in truck farming only a still st ill tract of laud land 1 Is required ind the returns return are arse jbf firms tj sew ew ang all 1 4 an bf be purchased ed very cheaply lehey can never be made as productive as the lands land farther west welt but under proper treatment the fertility can be restored and a very comfortable profit wired secured from tham the agricultural opportunities of th tbt south have bare been little advertised advertise d ye yet there is DO no section of the count rak where here the opportunities of the sir farmer are greater farm in ine and stool stock raising railing are a com compani leveir hv ly new thing in abs section the men ho are growing I 1 less cotton and more coia cora and hog and dairy cow cows ire re getting ahead land Is I 1 cheape bre b re than in to man many part parts of tb co country and cn can be load very vory productive |