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Show 1 i el ie vlni; Themselves Practically everybody would be (divl to see sume practical means of .'arm relief hroui:hl about by legislation, but the wise farmer Is not. drpcndln.I too much on polllicans for n betterment ot his condit inn. Some Instances In which fanners have successfully soukIiI. relief throiiuh belter methods are related in n recent miii:n7ine inllcle which k'vcs food for thought. Here are n few: John II. Hinder of Oswego. Kan., rented out. I hree-foiirl hs of his lnd seven years ar.o and di'volcd the rest lo dairy nit lie and poultry. I'Yom 17 cows and IlSfl hens he clenred $.!,(i00 last y nr. I'lflecu years ar.o he ui i a lenler; now he owns his farm and Is president of n hank. A K. Nelson of (lonvlek. Minn., found n few dairy rows profitable, so he In creased his herd, likewise increasing his monthly milk check to an average of $:nw. Henry Hogeman of Kmmet County, lown. got out of the beaten path by raising W acres of beets which brought him $:i.(iO0 last season. William Mob-son, Mob-son, another Iowa farmer, raised n big flock of poultry In connection with bis other farming operations and made money. tn many sections of the South the j"Cov, sow and hen" are bringing pro-; : peril y to farmers who formerly grew poorer and poorer through depending on cotlcn alone. In every s'ale many progressive farmers are bettering their condition by similar means. There Is no denying that agricult in Is In a bad way generally, but a better planned farm program would onchle ninny farmers to overcome this condition condi-tion to li great extent. |