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Show THE DAY OF THESFARMER. Useful Tll'er of the Soil Has Corns to His Own. The farmer who Is not an amateur Is a really Increasing factor In to-day's life. In tact farming 1b rapidly becoming be-coming ono ot the professions. We have our agricultural schools Just as we have our faw schools. It Is getting to be a business as well. Farmers have their trusts, like other manufacturers. It Is a far cry from tho New England Eng-land farmer, trying to arrange an exploded ex-ploded granite quarry Into a stone wall that he may have room In which to plant his crop, and that master ot capital, cap-ital, science and black earth ten feet deep who plows with a traction engine and reaps with a ten-horse team. And between these two types ot farmers the drift is steadily toward the latter. lat-ter. The comic paper does not laugh at the "granger" as frequently as It used to'laugh. It wants his subscription. subscrip-tion. The capitalist docs not foreclose mortgages on the prairie farm now. Ho borrows money of Its owner. And, what Is vastly more Important, the entire country looks with a respect bordering upon apprehension on this now typo of Amorlcanwho has decided decid-ed vlows on railroads, trusts, and. In fact, on every subject from the "gieon bug" to tho lecturer at his Chautauqua. Chautau-qua. This rise of the farmer Into national significance 13 welcomo In view ot the Inundation of great cities by immigrants who have significance only en masse, Tho farm Is tho nursery ot Individualism. Individ-ualism. It you aro a cliff dweller In the city send your boy there, and let him see what it means to create wealth with tbe help of nature, rather than wl'n tho ticker. You will help make h.m a better Amerlcan.-yThe World To-Cav. |
