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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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Just Giving the Boy His Chance
BV LUTHBil BUKBANK.
1 in o never hnl of a Boy taught to
t u?ur who wnt wrong."
A HUNDRED years ago a trip
from New York to the spot
where Chicago now Is would
have Involved weeks of travel and
ndless discomfort. A hundred years
ngo communication by letter betwoeu
thrae points was well-nigh un
heard of.
Yet today the trip may be conveni
ently made over night. A letter mailed
In New York this afternoon will bo
delivered In Chicago tomorrow morn
ing. The telegraph will convey a
message with the loss of only an
hour of time. And the telephone
from any point In New York to any
point In Chicago, ouco the connection
is made, gircs Instantaneous com
munication. Truly iu transportation and easy
communication those two funda
mentals of civilization wo have ac
complished In a hundred years what
we might reasonably have expected
to accomplish in a thousand or ten
thousand years.
Advancement.
And so, In medicine, In surgery, In
pleotrlclty. In scientific management
and high efficiency of business con
duct and In almost every Industry
nud every lino of endeavor tho pres
out state of advancement could never
have been dreamed a hundred years
ngo could novor havo been believed
fifty years ago could not have been
foreseen oven ten years ago.
In practically every lino wo havo
been leaping centuries and centuries
ahead within tho span of a fow brief
years in practically every line ex
cepting tho ono lino of endeavor upon
whicll nil other lines of endeavor de
pond In practically every line snvo
in tho production of the ncccusttlc
from the soil.
In agriculture and horticulture,
nlone, hnvo wo been content with
that hIow iucrcaso In efficiency which
tho years might naturally lis ex
pected to bring while In nil of our
other lines Hccondnry lines though
they be wo have Impatiently robbed
tho futuro of progress which might
hnvo taken centuries for the natural
eourso of events to bring about.
I'tiriiilng IUickwunl.
Or, to look at it in another way,
If wo were ntlll traveling In stngo
coaches, had only dreamed tho possi
bility of n telegraph, know nothing
of what electricity had Iu store for
us, or of tho value of modern manu
facturing nnd merchandising meth
ods, then we could nit back and say
thnt farming, Indeed, had mudo won
derful projyess.
nut in days of Instniitaucoim com
munication, highly spcclnltzod mar
keting faclIltlcH, and tho wastes nnd
tlclnjs of cxlstenco reduced to a min
imum, farming appears, Indeed, to
hnvo stayed in tho stage coach period.
It would Hooin as though, during
the past hundred yearn, nnd particu
larly the past two decades, wo had
been dovotiug all of our geulus nnd
bending nil of our energy toward
lirluglug conveniences within tho
reach of nil toward limiting luxuries
ho cheap that nono could afford to
refuso them.
While nil tho tlmo the nctunl necos
Hltles of life, tho things wa eat, tho
things wo wear, nud all those other
things which depond directly upon
tho soil for their production, hnvo
grown dearer and dearer and dearer.
The Hoy's Opportunity.
It Is this Btnto of things that gives
tho boy of today tho biggest oppor
tunity that any boy has over had.
A hundred years ago it was tho
railroads which oponcd up oppor
tunity to tho young Vandcrbllts.
Fifty years ago It was steel steel
needed In other fast-growlug lines of
Industry which opeucd up opportun
ity to tho young Carneglcs.
Forty yenrs ago Jt was electricity
which opened up Its opportunities to
tho young Kdisons and Wcstiug
liouses. Today ovory 40-ncro tract of land
that will bear n crop is begging our
boys to co mo nnd embrace their op
portunity. Tho kind of opportunities which
mndo fame and fortune for young
Vandcrbllts, and young Carneglos,
nnd young Kdlsons and young Wcst
Inghouses is not to bo fouud In tho
highly perfected Industries of today;
for tho greater perfection to which
an Industry or lino of endeavor at
tains, tho better tho organization of
men behind that Industry and tho
bettor tho organization tho loss tho
opportunity, undeniably, for tho In
dividual. It wo dC3lra to mako tho boy a
lawyer, for example, wo must glvo
him eight years of costly trainlug
simply to teach him those funda
mentals which ull other lawyers
know. The law Is a hlghlj organ
ized profession. The eight years of
time and the thousands of dollars of
expense do not assure the boy of suc
cess they merely place him in a po
sition to compete with 50,000 othr
lawyers who have all had about the
same training nt the same expense
they are merely preliminary requi
sites before his ludividual talcut may
be glyeu even the barest opportunity
to show for Itself.
So, too, with medicine, with en
gineering, with advertising, and with
all of tho other highly organized pro
fessions. So, too, with railroading, and with
virtually every line of business the
advancement which tins come has
brought with It a state of organiza
tion which eliminates the need of tho
untrained Individual which demands
n long, tedious apprenticeship, beforo
the slightest attention can be paid to
individual merit If, indeed, tho In
dividual merit Is to reccixc its op
portunity at all..
Tho world already has enough law
yers, enough doctors, enough en
gineers, enough business executives,
enough railroad men to tnVo care of
lt wants.
Need of Min.
Whnt it needs urgcutly nnd now
Is men who can show tho farmer
how to Increase Ills wheat yield with
out corresponding increase of ex
pense or effort, so that Chicago nnd
Now York may once more have their
large 5c loaves of bread as of old.
What tho world needs, urgently
and now, is men who cau increase
tho forago from -our present acrongo
so thnt ltic will buy n pound of tho
choicest sirloin, ns of old, Instead of
a pound of rump, ns now.
Whnt tho world needs Is not the
ory, or agitation, or collcgo lore;
there aro plenty of these, and at n
cost of ? ISO, 000, 000 per annum Iu
money and who knows how much
time they havo succeeded In increas
ing our crop yield only a bare 3 per
cent.
Wliut tho world needs Is men who
can do to agriculture and to hoitlcul
lure what Edison did to electricity,
Cnmeglo to Btcel, and tho Vunder
bllis, Hills nnd Harrlmnns to trans
portation develop Its efficiency.
And tho boy who tries to glvo tho
world this want will find himself fac
ing an opportunity 400 times bigger
than tho railroad opportunity was u
hundred years ago, 800 times bigger
than electricity offered at Its Incep
tion, 1000 times bigger than tho steel
opportunity which Mr. Carncglo
found because agriculture Is just,
by these amounts, bigger than thoso
other Industries.
No AppmillccHhlps,
Tho boy who seeks this opportun
ity will find himself In no long wait
ing lino of applicants. Ho will fuco
no eight-year apprenticeship.
Every aero or tlllnblo land Is Invit
ing him to come to work; every pur
ehnsor of food and clothing Is pro
testing against his delay.
And ovory plant thnt grows Is mix
Iouh to reveal to him tho trade secrets
and tho techuiquo of his new profes
sion. Whnt nu opportunity Indeed!
To add a sluglo kernel to each ear
of com means n 5,000,000 bushel
crop increnso in America nlonc.
A sluglo Improvement In tho de
spised potato tins meant $17,000,000
n year, hero ut homo.
Tho production of a bloglo now
fruit, or the adaptation of an nxUUng
fruit to now conditions, or tho In
crease Iu yiold or Improvement In tho
flavor of a fruit may mean a colossal
fortune In added wealth.
A slnglo Intelligent Idea applied on
nu jSO-acro farm may mean tho dlf
foronco, to soma ouo, between grind
Ing poverty and comfortable pros
perity. A Thousand-Fold Itewnitl.
Whnt an opportunity, Indeed!
To tho hoy who has a genius for
tho work It offers a thousand-fold
moro reward than has over been of
fered a genius.
To tho boy who has merely Intelli
gence and persistence It opens up tho
wny to escape from mediocrity.
Everything wo ent, nnd everything
wo wear must bo produced directly
or Indirectly from tho soil.
Yet oven uow, when we cau easily
afford bathtubs, and telephones, and
steam heat, and luxurious travel, wo
aro sorely hurt to pay tho prices to
which tho common necessities of
food and clothing have arisen,
Tho world did not want railroads
so badly, because it had no concep
tion of tho wonders which railroads
could work.
It did not want electricity so bad
ly, because the things which electric
ity has done wera beyond Its Imagin
ation. It has never wanted anything so
badly as It now wauts to put back
the price of Its necessities a price
ure of farming to keep up with tho
times.
What an opportunity, Indeed t
The Itcglitulng;
How shall the boy begin?
By working with tho plants them
selves, by learning to understand
Nature and to love her responsive
ness. If tho boy can have 10 feet In tho
back jard for his experiments, well
and good. It not, perhaps ho can
havo five.
If he can raise a variety of plants.
It will hasten his training. But sure
ly ho can work with ouo or two.
He can learn for himself that plants
continually change themselves to
meet tho requirements of tho men
and women who grow them.
That uothlnp In Nature stands
Htlll, thnt It either goes forward or
backward.
That nothing else In all Nnturo
responds to tho pleasures and de
sires of man so readily as her plants.
That the characteristics of the par
ent plant aro reproduced In its off
spring, and that parentage can bo
varied almost nt will.
That due to Nature's adaptability It
has already been possible to change
tho scent, size, color, blooming period
and charm of flowers; to Improvo ex
isting fruits and foods to meet tho
uceds of the present day, and to Cro
at entirely new fruits and food
plants, so that tho world may cujoy
n better product nt a lower price; nnd
to perfect plants which yield entirely
new substances for manufacture
now chemical elements which have
their definite bearing ou lowering tho
cost of living.
I hope to seo tho day when a prac
tical manual of plant breeding In
words, almost, of one syllable will bo
placed within the reach of nil tho
young.
But until that day, it Is still poa
slblo to lend the boy into his oppor
tunity, by teaching a lovo for plantit
themselves, and putting him in a po
sition to study a knowledge of their
ways.
(From bokUt latued hy (ha Luther Uur
bank Kvrlcty ot Kautit ltou.)
To "Old .Mr-nubon'."
- Old sttaniboat," th worst outlaw hurt
In th Wnt, aa (hot (ho othr Uajr In end
hit aufftrlnft, from blood poliunlna. vautrd
by an Injury rclvr. In railroad nrmk.
"Old atraniboat" htd thrown Hi moat
Mlltd Ironco butter, and no rider had
ever conquered him airly. II was defiant
to iho la it. Dlepaten from Wyoming.
Outlaw they culled you, nil becauso
They never broke you to their will;
Outline thoy called )ou, and their lawn
At lout havo In I it you cold and still:
Scarred were your side from rowclloU
heel.
And scarred your flank from cruel
uulrt.
But, spite of what the flesh mlKht ftl.
Tour dauntless spirit was unhurt.
Outlaw they called you In tho dust
Hum muny u liruftKurt rider whirled:
Your Ktrttujtli wuu fed by wrath moat
Just.
Your vouraKo wa as fine nuer
furled:
You heard tho whimper of tho cur
As 'ncath your hoofs tho coward
rolled;
Outlaw thoy called you hot thoUKhU
stir
-At what men term the proud and
bold.
Outlaw they called yon did one hand
In kindness ever atretch toward thee?
Did aught save despot's huish com
mand l'ull on your ears, black horse now
frie7
Tho lariat, the branding: Max.
The cruelties 'neatli which you
chafed, .
Outlaw these made you nil your days,
With death tho one kind act vouch
safed. Arthur Chapman, In New York Bun.
9 n I
Kindly remember, too, that tho
germs that causo milk to sour aro
ever present in tho barn. In the dairy
utensils, nud whero the milk Is kept.
Can't bo too careful In handling milk.
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by buying our Spring
needs now, instead of
waiting.
Boys and Girls
Start Making Money
NOW
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