Show HELPING ING OURSELVES one of the principal issues of the late campaign as in nearly every campaign was aid for the farm e era all sorts of patent medicines were offered and no doubt a great many agriculturists who take their politics seriously are expecting somebody in the next administration to pull a financial rabbit out of uncle sams plug hat and solve the farm problem over night but bul these agriculturists will be disappointed just as aa they have been disappointed in the past when they have expected some patent remedy to pull them out of their difficulties fortunately however all farmers as are not baitin waiting 0 for a magic governmental cure for the depression some of them are doing their best to help themselves by cutting costs and expenses and using every effort to solve the problems on the farm after all the average farmer in spite of his pessimistic utterances is an optimist for he goes ahead year after year planting the crops on which he says he is losing money hoping that sometime he will vill get out of the red farmers have not let down on their own efforts during the beat of the campaign which was just ended some time a ao ago o a representative I 1 senta tive of the U S department of agriculture after a survey of conditions in the middle west said midwest mid west farmers are waging a finish amish fight to keep their outgo below their incomes vegetable and fruit gardens are again fashionable they are taking no chances with the family food supply farmers will slaughter and cure more meat this year than in any year since the war cabbages ca carrots arots turnips squash and fruit will be carefully stored in the cellar the wood lot is already yielding new stacks of stove wood to repel the attack of old alan winter the farmer is culling right and left he is cullin culling unprofitable acres unprofitable bitable c cows 0 w s unprofitable hens everything that help to balance the budget goes into tho the discard never before has there been such careful scrutiny on farm expenses and never before have the farmers made such a fight to get a little more of f the consumers consume es dollar neighbors are cooperating in the ownership and use of the larger pieces of machinery I 1 rainy days in 1932 are thrift I 1 days days to repair harness and overhaul machinery the horse is Nv winning inning back the short haul business 1 because the farmers find that a scoop of oats and a few forkfuls fork fuls of hay grown on the farm and fed to a good horse supply the cheapest fuel and power for some of the farm services now winter is at hand and the crops have been gathered more farmers are prepared to depend on themselves for the winter than was the case a few years ago eventually these individual efforts are going to count the farmer will not always be broke and depressed he will come back |