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Editorial Page Home and Farm Magazine
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the Northwest and on the uplift and
comfort of the farm home always arc
welcomed. No letters treating of re
ligion, politics or the European war are
solicited. We proclaim neutrality on
these matters.
Comparatively brief contributions
are preferred to long ones. Send us
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us to do it
LAND RANKS.
THE United Slates of America,
with all her boasted civiliza
tion and financial superiority,
cannot boast of land banks nor'
Governmental supervision of lands
and land sales, as do n great many
foreign countries. There is a wide
spread agitation throughout the
entire country in favor of land
banks and legislation that will per
mit the organization of such, no
doubt, is an assured fact in the
near future.
There is perhaps no one bit of
legislation contemplated that carries
with it as much importance to the
future upbuilding of the land.
Every commercial line has arrange
ments for proper financing and there
is scarcely a business that docs not
need the assistance and financing of
banks. The fanner is the most im
portant factor in the ultimate
growth of any country, yet we are
stumbling blindly in the dark and
the fanner is compelled to finance
himself in whatever way he can.
Governor Glynn, of Now York,
lias recommended to the legislature
at the last two sessions that it pass
ft land bank law that would provide
for the proper financing of legiti
mate farming. Wo hope the day is
not far distant when Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho will have a land
bank law on their statute books.
The editor of the Farm and Home
Magazine would bo glad to hear
from every farmer in the Pacific
Northwest who has any ideas along
these lines.
fanner for the high cost of bread.
Others blame the grain dealers.
And yet British bread, made from
wheat grown by American farmers
and sold by American grain dealers,
sells for less in war harassed Eng
land than does American bread made
from the same wheat and sold in
peaceful America.
What is the cause for the high
price of bread in this country?
Figure it out for yourselves.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
THE farmer, as a rule, knows
how to farm; he also knows
how many times it takes going
over the ground to get it ready for
the crop and at what cost; he knows
that lie wants clean and good seed ;
he knows what it costs him to put
this produce on the market.
Yes, many farmers know Ml this.
Those who show that they know it,
also show evidences of prosperity.
And the prosperous farmer in turn
is the one who profits by what is
done on experimental or demonstra
tion farms; he also is the one who
sends his sons or his daughters to
agricultural colleges and schools.
It is not so much what any man
knows that counts. He must also
make his knowledge shine forth in
his work so that those who run may
road and profit. In farming there
are some who keep records.to ascer
tain how much it costs to produce a
given commodity but there arc
many who do not. Practically every
man who tills the soil knows that for
maximum returns he should have
clean and good seed but how many
can say that their fields arc clean?
Agricultural colleges, agricultural
schools, experimental farms, demon
stration farms and all such institu
tions will not appeal to the man who
thinks he knows all there is to know
in agriculture.
However, those who know most
usually appreciate the fact that
there still is much to learn. They,
therefore, pay attention to what
others are doing and take advantage
of every possible source of information.
A SIDELIGHT ON BREAD.
SOME interesting sidolights on
that ever-present problem of
tho high cost of living are to
be found in the items of war news
which filter through the European
news censor bureaus to this coun
try. One which recently made its
Way hero from Great Britain is
especially illuminating.
Wheat in London is selling around
a dollar aid ninety cents a bushel,
and yet bread there is still cheaper
by tho pound than it is in this coun
try. In our largo cities, such as Chi
cago and New York, the major por
tion of tho bread sold is made and
baked by special machinery, a more
efficient and economic method than
is ued anywhere in Europe.
Aiany people here blame tho
A LIFE PHILOSOPHY IN SEVEN
WORDS.
SOME men who attain old age
in good health and high spirits
like to offer advice to the
young. "Go thou and do likewise,"
they say in effect, "by doing as I
have done." "As I have done" may
mean total abstention from intoxi
cating beverages or a regular though
moderate indulgence therein; giv
ing the lifelong admanfinc stare to
the soothing if seductive Goddess
Nicotine, or flirting unashamed with
the weed-born deity ; sleeping eight
hours a day, eating regularly, work
ing steadily.
John Burroughs, best beloved of
living American writers, had a birth
day recently, his seventy-eighth.
Burroughs lives up in the Rip Van
Winkle country, but ho has been
awake all his seventy-eight years
and has lived every day of his life
with eyes wide open and face to the
front. Though for many years past
he has lived "much to himself," as
the phrase goes, he has not lived al
together to himself. What he has
lived in his ever-youthful heart and
seen with his imaging eyes he has
put in books which have carried his
kindly life and high vision into the
lives of others.
Somebody asked John Burroughs
for n bit of birthday advice. There
must have been a merry twinkle in
his eyes when he replied:
"Keep cheerful and mind your
own business."
Those few simple words cover tho
life-philosophy of a man who has
kept himself young almost four
score years;. The philosophy of
John Burroughs, of v "Slabsides,"
may not be Bergsonian, nor
Nietszchian, nor even William Jamc
siensian, but it is recommended to
any man or woman who is seeking a
saving creed of conduct, both as to
spirit and to deed. Is anything
more conducive to" long life and hap
piness than. just keeping cheerful
and minding your own business?
VALUE OF OPTIMISM.
AN OPTIMISE has been de
scribed as a man who can
make lemonade out, of the
"lemons" which are handed him.
He is a man who remains cheerful,
hopeful and courageous in the midst
of many setbacks which fate may
bring to him.
The spirit of optimism is a very
valuable asset to anyone. The pes
simist is discouraged when he en
counters difficulties or setbacks; he
quits and tries something else. The
optimist looks back over the history
of his previous actions in the hope
of finding out wherein he was at
fault, where he himself was to blame
in such n way as to at least help
bring these troubles on himself.
Thereby ho strengthens himself
for meeting similar difficulties in the
future. His failures-awl difficulties,
are the very material out of which
he builds up his future success. He
snatches difficulty out of defeat. Ho
is an asset to his community and to
his country.
Right now is the time for the op
timists among livestock breeders to
make lemonade out of tho lemons
which have been handed them by
the foot and mouth plague. The pes
simist will quit raising livestock.
But the optimist will go ahead with
greater care and precaution than ho
ever used before. He will continue
his breeding, hut with greater care.
Tho dropping out of the business of
the pessimists, coupled with the in
creased demand for our livestock,
will give him a greater market than
he has ever had before for his ani
mals; so that he should make great
er money from his activities in fu
ture years than he has in the past.
Grit your teeth and become an
optimist.
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"LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD"
rnHE sinking of the Prins
J JUaurits off tho Virginia Coast,
apparently with the loss of all
on board fifty human beings and
the sinking of the seagoing tug
Luckenback, with fifteen victims,
may well be held to indicate the
limitations of tho wireless in a
Winding storm. Tho call for help
comes all right; it is responded to
without delay, but the finding of tho
imperiled vessel is most difficult,
and it is precisely in such a storm
that sinking is liable to bo very
quick, as in the case of these two
vessels.
Of the Luckenback's crew two
men wow "ived,vashed ashore with
the wreckage. They can tell some
thing of the tug. The story of tho
liner Maurits may never bo told. So
far as known there arc no survivors.
The double tragedy, with sixty-five
dead, would have impressed all our
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country, in the sections -faS
soil is more o- less mmlw.i7
ftclcr, on any farm whereby '
is close and conuad.orniu.iiL.
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farmer should get it intoliis"u
quickly as he can.
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A FRAGMENTARY COST.
TULES MELAT, a multwiuK
I aire oi ueigium. owned i n.
nificcnt factory for ma&j'
cream separators within tWmks
of tho fort of Liese and shad '
profits on a co-operative plana ,
8000 enmloves. The nlArmruu I
Spick and span as a parlor, theicin- 1
dows always clean and bright, w
everybody working happily,
Ono fntnl dnv in AiifrusL vlimlb
Huns were at the gate, the trah 'j
came, the great factory was np
off tho nism hv the treat KraM
guns and every last vestige of k
man's fortune was uesiroyea m u
hour. The most of his men wre
'killed in battle, while the old bu
was turned upon the world an eIW
pauper and this is only a fragiwat
of tho cost of war.
An Eastern syndicate is to pub
lish a periodical page of Chamay
Dcpew's jokes. And wewllhaww
abundance of chestnuts that tt
frost can never affect.
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an expert. But so do other current
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