Show clr V 21 MAN COME EAST IS ADVICE MASS EXECUTIVE el CLAIMS ams HIS 1118 OFFERS 11 TO FAHME l nl NEW W agricultural BOOM WILL A ENRICH THOSE WHO TILL HAY BAY STATE SOIL DY BY CHARLES 11 II COX governor of massachusetts editor s note years ago dropped apparently front from tile tho r race a cc tor for farm production and its young men lift tile soil held to bo be worn out tor for tile tho rich und and cheap land of we tuo west went tile iho lauds lands in tho the west are no longer cheap and modern farm hub has discovered that tho the cast orn soil boll is not useless while experts have pointed tho the advantages ot at a neighboring market to product tion that lu Is why the governor eo vernor char 11 II cox iu hi anxious to tell tho the world that tile the farm lands landa of tho the old state aro are once wore muio to como come into their own and every acre worked means one moro more unit of productiveness to counterbalance tile the commercial slump that followed the reconstruction period that followed tho the war young man como come east over halt half a century ago a bract man mait gave tho opposite advice tile tho world ot of opportunity seethed boomed to rest beyond tile the mississippi and the rich lands landa ot of tile the prairie states waited only the drive of the plow to enrich who hoever cared to labor tho the young men went wont by thousands fron from alone anti and many ot 01 them did opportunity As tile tho reports of tho the wonders of at tho soil cime canic back cast front from fertile iowa front from prodigal kansas and oven even further west tile the farms ot of the old day bay stalo toll fail moro more and more moio into tile the class ot of has boon been tho the youth whose strength and ambition was neadom to 1 d I v lite best front from the earth had 1 4 vy V y tuo tile hired labor that replaced it wits indifferent and careless cire leaa the aliu production fell lower and lower the soil each year seemed more titu born and unyielding the farms that bloomed lit in beauty and richness rich nesa in tho the days following tile the It revolution evolution passed on into poorly planted poorly worked areas that alia wore a drug on tho the market slid and became mure more and more a manufacturing state during tile tho late war the labor do da mands manda from factories forced upward tile the wage scale until the tana farm lands still occupied wore drained or of 0 very sort of labor and in al massachusetts achu was waa almost a lost art near ly people lived within its borders bondora andt anat hoso depended and still do depend to a laro largo ox tont on oil produce raised without tho the borders loss than 5 6 per cent of thol the I 1 luton laton are engaged in farming industries dus tries wealth from the statues stages fisheries fi continues to pour in the annual tock lock received eacil each year at tho the docks runs runa from to pounds with nearly three billions of dollars invested in its ita factories tac torlea and nearly a billion of at paid in wages each year there la Is no ito lack of cash with which to pur chasu tho the product of at tho the farm the titivation Is shall that money remain lu in the state slate to be at tho the doors of the manufacturer or shall it go forth slid and ledurn only in part tills this brings us to the importance of chaap tood food in tho the development of an industrial community food to be ba cheap must bf produced cheaply transported transporte 1 cheaply and carlm marketed toil cheaply the rise of at any of these units la Is instantly felt by the other two and of course by tile tho consumer cheap tra it t foil two of the requirements cheap production and cheap marketing mas atas has enjoyed in relation to its ita neighbors and oven even to those western states whose very existence is s agriculture tile tho third unit transportation por tation has become mole and more important to the lite mart marl birg tics and distribution trib ution ot of tood foodstuffs stuffs and there lies 41 1 l vantage to massachusetts with V t idour our million citizens it if masan isetta can produce and market its f A j rl culture as cheaply as cammi 1111 vica es outside its ita borders anti and then add to that a reduction in fit rates through shortage of haul it Is a simple loni lom to solve to arrive at tile tho dec decision 1910 11 that massachusetts can undersell its rivals without its borders or ei anter nit nil active competition with a greater margin of profit than will bo be gained by those bearing tile tho overhead of a largo freight or express cost an investigation fly by dr arthur continued on page eight I 1 continued from pa gene eone lulfing lUL JING alain EAST IS W Oll gilbort bort our commissioner of agriculture ri gave birth to a report says llla in part art it if a man can purchase aso good farm land in now new england at i iu per acre while his wEB torii cousine cousin must I 1 pa 11 altu it if by expanding rea reasonable enable en ismall orgy and rt A comparatively small sun buni tur fur fertilization lie he can call gat as much tr or moro more out of the land as tho the west craer can call if fur for example ho he cal cai sot got his bis fruits to tile tho linest market in ill tho the world a day after they are arc gathered as against a week weak letting ills his fruit cipan ripan on the tree or bush instead of 44 in the fright car and it if ho he can get it to tho the consumer for or aubut fotiu buu fourth tho the freight charges paid by ills hie cousin what must lie ho conclude 7 ilc building agriculture aarl culture it Is especially important front from every point of view that massachusetts and nd now england agriculture should lo le immediately rebuilt within miles of boston are nearly about ono olio fourth of tile tho population oil of the united states alassi chu sotta at present ls in not able it to grow arow food enough to feed tile the people ut of boston alone tito tho cape cott cod strawberry grow ors ora formed on an association in 1915 and id they now have about abOU toile hund |