| Show THE PATIM ON THE INCREASE theres Th ereis flinch regret over decline 61 the farm andee rush of the farmers boy to chles for the purpose 0 engaging in mercantile or other urban pur sulta and the regret would bo widespread if mhd facts were only at hand td do the warranting aut the statistics issued by the depart of agriculture and the census bureau tell another story the farmer has not lost alg shrewdness nor haa his boy th fact is ahat the farm 3 on the increase in number as it unquestionably la in tho richness of its products in 1870 there farms la the united states according tu the last census choro in 1800 the advance in the value of farm products was from a fraction leas than in 1870 to in 1000 in ISTO there were persons engaged in farming while in 1900 the number had grown to tho aton 0 labor saving machinery oh abo farm has had much to do with sending torae farm hands to the city in of other character of employment but tho farm continues to increase in number and the of the farm pro docto with 11 there Is no danger of the farmer passing from existence ho knows a good thing aa well as his urban brother and so does his boy improved methods of farming may continue to diminish the number of farm hands but not even that fact will work to a discontinuance of the necessity for the farm laborer nor for the laborer in the harvest fields the fact that kansas farmers this early in the season are inviting farm hands to their corn and rye and wheat and alfalfa fields with promise of good wages and board Is a strong argument against the blueness which so often attacks the american citizen when he imagines he sees an in pouring of the farmer and the farmers boy to the cities |
