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Show 3AYS FARMING HAS NO PAY DAY Herbert Quick, editor of Fnrm and Fireside, tho national farm paper published at Springfield, Ohio, publishes publish-es n tho current Issuo of his paper a letter from a woman living In Chi cngo, who Is yearning to get onto the fnrm. Her husbttnd Is an engineer on tho Michigan Central Hallway and they havo llvo children. The wife U thlrty-threo years old and tho bus-bnnd bus-bnnd a few years older. Tho writer of tho letter adds that sho was born and ralssd on a V.rglnla farm and thnt, as sho looks back, those were the happiest days of her Hfo. In replying to this letter Mr. Quick says, among other things: "How can I, how can anyone, plan out a way for theso peoplo to got a farm? Thoy aro UBed to the Income of a' railway engineer, which Is a pretty good lncomo for working people. peo-ple. Could they evor save enough to buy a farm by going Into tho country and working for wages? I w.'sh I sould say they could, but I daro not. "In tho first placo It takes more than desire to make a farmer. The leslro Is the most Important thing pcrhitps, but other things are also es--entlal. I wonder It this woman knows how much different her life would bo from that on tho old Virginia Vir-ginia farm as bIio remembers It thru tho mists of years? "Threo things aro resulred for successful suc-cessful farming. First, the human factor, the farmer and his family. Tho city man's work Is Independent of weather, bugs, worms, files and plant nlnd animal diseases. He can plan exactly, and carry out his plans. Dut when ho finds himself on tho farm ho Is confronted with a great mass ot Influences over which ho has no control. con-trol. "The)ri tho-o Is tho natural factor, lnnd. It seems a shamo that there should bo so many acres locked uo In tho hands of peoplo who do not themselves work them, but such Is tho condition of things. Somo tlmo I hopo It will bo different. Some time I hopo wo shall recognlzo In our Inst In-st tutlons thalnslc fact that the possession pos-session of so much land ns bo needs for his actual uses Is tho right of ov-ory ov-ory human being. "Then thero Is tho matter of capital. cap-ital. Tools aro needed. Llvo stock, seed, fencing, nnd building materials aro needed. And farming has no pny day. Nobody hand3 tho farm nn envelope containing his wages at th? end of tho dny, tho week or th month. Thousands of peoplo In tho c ty would not bo hblo to watt for tho lahd to yield them a living, oven If thoy had tho land. "And ct many of them mnko tho b'onlk to tho farms and somo win." |