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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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The Farmer in Years to Come
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V JACOH M'KINNnY MURIUM
pAUMINO la the big business
of
llin future!
It has moro possibilities than
any and all other buslue&scs com
bined. No lino of human endeavor
has been so belittled and lied about
as that of the farmer, lie has boon
called a mossback, a hayseed nuil a
sod-buster, terms that havo silenced
tho longings of many a joung heart
and driven young, aspiring men from
tho tilling of the soli to tho city office
and tho city swirling, sweating en
denvor, breaking lives on tho nltnr of
public opinion when, bad there been
no sneers at tno tanners caning,
thousands of third rate lawyers, mer
chants and office men, with a bare
subslstonco for their endeavor, would
bo centlcmcn of the soil, rich In good
health and dollars wrung from a will-
Intr nnd smiling earth
As n boy, working In my father's
sawmill, afterward In the backwoods
store, waiting on Jobbers, mlllmcn
and drivers, with now and then a
scattering of "mossbacks" from tho
rear townships, I had this Intense
loathing for tho farmer and his call
ing Instilled Into my soul till I Imag
ined tho vory namo farmer carried
with It a belittling significance.
Many of tho farmers In tho now
country wcro mere "shack bogs," liv
ing from hand to mouth, eating their
Jobnnycako, fat pork and "taters"
with a soddon disregard for the
niceties of life. I had no fellow feel
ing for the breed. In fact I shrank
from them with a sort of contomptu
ous loathing hardly to be accounted
for.
Lumbermen nntl Funnels.
Tho mlllmcn, loggers nnd drivers
wero princes In comparison with tho
backwoods sand-pipers. I learned to
despise them even when waiting on
their varied wants across tho counter.
Of all tho customers wo had to do
with these men on the new lands
back from tho river wero tho least
desired. They wero nlways and for
ever nsklng for tick. "Chargo It, boy,
till wo sell our craps," was tho fre
quent remark after tho man had got
turougn with His day's trading,
Often wo did "charge It to our
sorrow. Nino out of 10 of theso fol
lows wero shiftless, good-for-nothings
wno nau escaped from the older re
gions south nnd cast, hoping to hot
ter their fortunes In the now region
ndjolnlng tho Great Lakes.
Now and then, ono there was who
camo to this western wilderness Im
bued with n spirit of determination
to make for himself n homo; perhaps
n comfortable fortune In tho wilder
ness. Such as these could count on
tho fingers of ono hand. I call to
mind three men who wore honest In
their dealings, though "mossbacks."
They won out magnificently. Ono be
came In nfter years n Judgo on tho
bench, another a member of the
State Legislature, tho third content
ing himself with owning u dozen
farms, with a bank account thnt
would shamo oven thnt of tho big
lumbermen.
For ninny years tho occupation of
tilling tho soli was considered rather
beneath tho dignity of a gentlcmnn.
Nobody with n thimbleful of brains
would bo caught behind n plow, turn
ing tho soil for futuro cropping. Fre
quently tno remark, "what became
or nan Weston (name not particu
lar), who was driving things hero on
tho rlvor 10 years ago?"
"What, him! Well, what do you
think, ho's gone to farming, actually
gono to seed up on thn Inland!"
"Poor fellow; I thought he know
moro'n thnt!"
Hotter, havo boon dead In estima
tion of tho majority, and I Tolt tho
8amo way toward tho "poor fellow"
who was working out his Independ
ence next to Nature's bosom.
Xml of Fanning; Ituslno-i,
A good mnuy of tho early loggers
made their pile, took tho money cut
llngtons nnd Rockefellers In the
lanka of tho farming community, but
It Is not because of any Inherent
weakness In tho soil method of rising
to eminence. Farming In America Is
in Iih lufnncv. Tho creat. grand men
who shnll succeed at tho plow havo
not yet come to the front In sufficient
numbers to nttract tho world's atten
tion, but this Is not to be always so.
The time will surely come when
from tho fields of agriculture, horti
culture, too, If you please, since I nm
speaking of the soil as n maker of
great fortunes tho creator of tho
Ideal life, there will spring men of
eminence nnd power as great ns any
this free land of ours lias over pro
duced. Millions of acres of smiling,
not unfruitful, soil lies fallow plead
ing from every grassbladc and busn
for the hand of tho husbandman to
come and mnko good with plow and
harrow nnd spade. Ho is coming.
It cannot bo long boworo tho great
empire of unturned sod fields of the
West shall become teeming gardens
of living realities.
l'osslbllltlcs in Fanning.
The possibilities of soil culture nrc
so amazing as to cause one who un
derstands to lift his hands In won
der that tho opportunities have re
mained so long unattached.
five ncres are enough to care for a
family of five. Five ncresl No farm
at all, you exclaim. Let mo tell you
whnt I have dono on three ucres of
tho despised sand of Westorn Michi
gan. I began as an invalid from tho
heated office of the town, came as mi
amateur nt the gaino of land culture.
I posted myself In book lore on tho
subject. Then I got down to business
on three acres of soil left untenanted
since the cutting of tho plno 20 years
before.
There were three of us In tho fam
ily, I the only worker for tho field.
I will not go Into particulars only to
stnto that my Inclination led mo into
tho fruit field. Strawberries first,
then the bush fruits, followed by
peaches, grapes nnd apples.
Such berries! Thov wero the
astonishment of my neighbors. No
body had seen anything llko tho lus
cious, meaty strawborrles that grow
on my first llttlo patch. I had to
buck low prices all nlong the lino.
Tho first year was a discouraging
one. Even the second was not much
hotter. Wo managed to live, how-
over. My henlth Improved and I be
gan to work and study, study nnd
work In earnest. From a trembling,
hnltlng, hesitating amateur fruit
grower, I came In five years Into the
full sunlight or a successful horticul
turist. I had my land paid for, n good
team, plenty of tools, a nice cottage
homo, small fruit of nil kinds grow
ing better nnd bettor each year, with
a half aero of tho finest Worden
grnpes thnt ever purpled In an Octo
ber haze,
My grapes were tho wonder of the
town and county and they grow on
tho sand. Around nbout somo of the
richest farms In tho stato were lo
cated. Some of the farmers had tried
to raise grapes, but ono and all made
a fnlluro of It. Why? Wrong con
ception of tho requirements of tho
vine, for ono thing; no Ideal love for
tho work.
Lovo Your Work.
Love! Thnt Is tho word that com
passes nil things that nro good. Be
In lovo with your work, man and
womnu, If you would silcceed. Tho
fruitgrower must lovo every plant
nnd trco on his placo If ho would
make a success of his operations. I
was In lovo with mine. I went dally
nnd talked with the berries, talked
affectlonntoly with my E I b o r t a
peaches as thoy yellowed in the Au
tumnal sunshine, walked among tho
rnspberrles, tho luscious blackberries,
giving them friendly good mornings.
And the birds! I novcr limi n ,mn
on tho place; I novor killed a bird,
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I had no troublo in soiling all I
could raise. My bank account grow
and I was happy In tho work that
was most pleasing to mo.
Thcro can bo no disguising tho fnct
that tho great men and women of tho
futuro will bo tillers of tho soil. I.
am as suro of It as I nm suro that
tho sun will rlso tomorrow morning.
It Is In tho air, It breathes from ovory
hilltop, glitters frou ovory plain.
Young men, ambitions boy or girl
look not to tho crowded marts of tho
city for your futuro Inspiration; turn
rather to Nature and to Nature's
gods. Dig In tho soli, build your fu
Hire greatness fom tho sand hills
and dales now smiling uselessly un
der cover or wild rootH nnd grasses,
Tho Farming Duslncss.
Cities Itlso from Huliis.
London Chronlclo: When tho war
Is over wo may bo suro thnt moot
of tho towns and cities destroyed by
the aermniiH will, llko .tho Phoenix,
rise from tholr ashes. Tho teaching
of history Is that n city is hard to
kill. For instnnco, London has been
decimated five times by plagues, In
addition to vlsltntlons of typhus,
Jgrbi
can WS$ j. .., H
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cholera and other epidemics, sit hi
been burned moro or less .
several times. Paris has ?e ffi
eight sieges, ten famines, twoZS
nnd ono flro which devastated it
Itouio has been swept br pestilent
no fewer than ten times. She la
been twlco burned nnd six u
driven to submission by stamloi
Constantinople has been burned oTt
tilno times, and has suffered fro
four plagues and flvp sieges.
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cago and beenmo men of Importance row, and there wcro hosts of these I
In that now nnd bustling city by tho f'KlitltiK my battles against dcstruc-l
mo insects, niuing mo in ovory pan-
lake. Not ono out of 10 who ninsu
backed It In tho back townships over
made good. And there were they
scratching their bnro living out of n
vlnjln soli tho richness of which
ought of have made at least thou
snndnlrcs out of tho oitiipi-h.
Tho slackness of those early farm
firs acted as n dotorrent for bettor
nun, who, una uioy put their talents
Into tho farm work, might have re
deemed themselves nnd becomo men
of woalth and standing. Kvery muii
to his occupation. Our great men
la. the scientific, financial and profes
sional world havo niado their mark
by being on the Job all tho time.
Thoro Is a lnck of Napoleons', WoV-
slblo way known to feathered friends
of tho husbnndman. I nm a friend
of tho birds. Even tho hated crow
was to mo a friend. Ono field of
potatoes, an aero, was completely
cleared of bugs by my crow friends.
Tho first year or two thn cmnii
birds insisted on taking a lot of my
red raspberries. I circumvented tho
llttlo chaps by a device of my own In
vention which frightened thorn away,
without harming n feather on nny of
them. My small fruit gained for me
a reputation thnt spread the country
roundabout. I soon made a namo for
myself ns "the strawberry man." Lit
tle children waited beside the garden
gate for tho wagon of tho berry man
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