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HOME AM) FARM MAGAZINE SECTION 9 Home and Farm Magazine Section Editorial Page Suggestions Prom Our Associate Editors, Allowing For an Interchange of Views, Written by Men of Experience on Topics With Which They Are Fully Acquainted Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought. ;$$44,4, S10W distillate from stumps can be refined THE COST- OF BAD ROADS. into wood alcohol, ethyl alcohol, turpentine, A "WRITER in Technical World quotes TO ADVEETISEBS. tar and oils, clearing of logged-off land A some figures on the cost of bad Advertisers in this locality who wish to should not only go on apace, but should roads. Department of Commerce sta $ fully cover all sections of Oregon and Wash- give birth to new industries in refining and tistics show that it costs eight times as ington and a portion of Idaho will apply Relling these products. It remains to apply much to deliver a pound of coffee from a to local publishers for rates. the methods of the experimenters on a country grocery store to a home a mile General advertisers may address 0. L. large scale in the field and to convince away as it costs to carry that same pound $ Burton, Advertising Manager of Farm Mag- capital that there is money in it. of coffee from Rio de Janeiro to New York. & azine Co., Publishers Oregon-Washington- A large part of the work of the present It costs the farmer who lives ten miles Idaho Farmer, 411 Panama Building, Port- day consists in finding a use for that from the railroad over which he ships his land, Oregon, for rates and information. which is apparently useless, says the Port- products one and one-sixth cents more to S The publishers will accept business from land Journal. It has become a trite saying haul a bushel of wheat to the freight sta- no advertiser whose reliability can be quee- $ that meat-packers use all of the x hog ex- tion than it costs the buyer to ship that $ tioned., cept the squeal, and that their profit is wheat from New, York to Liverpool. The made not from meat, but from by-products, annual bill for carting America's crops j$$.S3j.S.S.$.j.$($$$4 The carbon dust held in suspension by from the fields to the railway stations rep- LARGE VS SMALL FARMS petroleum was formerly a nuisance to re- resents, in large part, unnecessary loss. WTrmTi x. ,i . . finers, and its disposal was a source of ex- Poor roads, making necessary the slow IIIUI is best for the country, or for pense( but it ig D0W uged m makin goag half-loaded wagon, account for most f state-that its valuable farm ands trie carbong and has created g fiourishmg 0f this waste. If farmers could be made to be divided in o great landed estates, judustry Gasoline was also worthless to realize the tremendous tax bad roads im or worked into small tarms? That makes the refiners but its use ag fud hag made pose upon them mt to mention the tax a difference where you are-the nature of it more valuabie than kero8en6i much of Upon the consumer, public opinion would tne land and the people By small farms which ig now thrown a gome citj demand the making and maintaining of we do not mean especially the twenty or have made fjt out of b di , good roads everywhere. forty acre tracts yet he average 160 acre which costs Portiand a pretty sum ever Two seta 0f figures have been compiled farm might be classed in this sense as a year The refuse of th(j hfm tQ be by the good roads bureau of the Depart. small farm In a semi-arid or and, section into denatured alcohol, now that the ment of Agriculture. If the cost of hauling Where it takes many acres to graze a steer, shackles haye beea taken off its manufac. in this country could be reduced to one it is folly to speak of small larms at all, ture s half of the present costi or Uj centg per for none could live on such a farm But in These discoveries are the fruit of the ton a mile, the saving to the people would sections where the land is very fertile a chemist's work. N He analyzes everything amount to $250,000,000 a year. 100 acre farm wi readily support a famdy md learns what ngefnl mgredientf are con. if equitable and efficient road laws and and a much smaller tract properly farmed tain ed in the most apparently useless ma- good business management could be subs, .will do so. terials. Ho spies out every secret of mat- tuted for the present antiquated and waste In pioneer days when land was plenti- ter and appHes all to man,8 purposes He ful system of handling our roads, there ful the great estates of the tobacco and cot- is teaching us that there is nothing useless would be an additional saving of $140,000. ton planter of Virgm.a, and the great sugar micT tbe gun to tbe maa who will geek ft 000 annuany. plantations of Louisiana and the great corn Use for all which comes to his hand. Only ' The United States cannot continue in- farms of southern Illinois and wheat fields to the gt md indolent is anything definitely matching its vast resources of the Missouri Valley states were a bless- against unnecessary waste. Every dollar ing to the country. They gave employment ( squandered because of poor roads is irre- and furnished products to those of less ARTTFTPTAT AWTi UTAT Tnmrr coverably gone, the same as though a thief means, but now that land is gett.ng more AXOOASD t?JAL LPf- ., had taken it in the night scarce, and the population more dense, con- 'T'lIE FARMER S DAYS are full of toil ditions have changed. A landed aristocracy . I and he is often disposed to think his twonavmnur rn KnnDnmprnv has been a curse to England and likewise A life is a hard one, says the Fruit OPPOSmON TO CO-OPERATION. Will be a curse to this country. Grower. There have been fanners who held V 7 SH0ULD there be opposition to The people of Louisiana are awake to to this view until they tried to do the W co-operation associations of farmers! the situation and desire to see the great things a city dweller does. Then there was Kly no one WlU obiect'to the for' cano plantations broken up into smaller a reversal of opinion, and likewise form. matl0n f cow or seed testing associations farms. The adverse tariff legislation seems The farmer sometimes overlooks the fact beeause everybody knows that their only to be the climax that will bring about this that he is an outdoors man and the city obJect 13 to Set better results. Then why much needed change. In a way it will be dweller is an indoors man. And there is not a steP ther and provide means too bad if the re-adjustment of conditions all the difference in the world. The city for, closer connection between the city men in that proud state should cause a loss of dweller lives at higher tension; the nerve- 411(1 comitry kst Mutual fire insurance that splendid southern hospitality. Let us racking noise, the problems that require in- companies among farmers were the natural hope, says Successful Farming, it will not stant decision, the fierce concentration, the result of conditions which compelled agents happen. But one thing is ceitain, the great ever-increasing value of time, the dangers ? charge higher premiums in the country cano and cotton and rice plantations will to life and limb, the fictitious pleasures, the han m.the Clt- Ex,tra expense had to be be divided into smaller tracts and this will late hours, the dissipation that adds to the incurred to collect the premiums and time make homes for a greater number of thrifty physical strain and nerve sickness, the was lost m pttmg andcontinuing the busi- farmers from the north who desire a milder temptations, the lure of extravagant living ness Wlth ,the farmers. When the farmers climate in a word, a general consumption of established their own insurance companies In due course of time we will awake to life's candle at bpth ends. the premiums were cut m two, not because the necessity of subdividing our great corn And when the city man does go on a they were better business men, but because and wheat farms, for one-crop farming, vacation, when he is burned out over the tny c"uld ?nt nt the extra expense. Un- no matter where it is, creates intolerable' steady daily grind, and mind and body doubtedly the regular insurance companies conditions that have no place in this coun- both crave relaxation, where does he go mi probably the livery men who furnished try. Let us take "a lesson from Louisiana, where indeed except to the farmer's out- the "8s f" the insurance agents lost, but which is now going through the throes of 0 '-doors the heart of the woods, the banks tho loss .of a ckss often Soes mtk the a an agricultural transformation. We must of some river or lake, there to let the yance of the Bat mass of the people, "discourage one-crop farming on a . large balm of Nature, the peace of wooded tem- . " 7" scale, and encourage the ownership of small pies and the clean winds of heaven remove The practice of sleeping outdoors is farms where livestock and diversified farm- the burden of his trouble and make his constantly growing in popularity. It is ing may prevail. The Texans are seeking heart and body pure as in that past but foiUMi to b beneficial to the sick and relief through a system of taxation that ttill vivid time of boyhood. well alike. Those who fancy that an will break up landlordism on such stupen- There is no tonic like the tonic of out- Pen. window thoroughly ventilates a room ;dous scale as prevails there. Far better is doors. There is healing in the winds; there deceive themselves in many eases, accord small farm ownership. is strength in the cool streams, sermons in m8 to recent medical lights. It has been , the very stones over which the waters purl found that the air sometimes remains foul ' so musically, and good in everything. near a window open both at top and bot- , ! USE FOR THE USELESS. The farmer .is unacquainted with the torn. . IF MR. DONK, of the Agricultural De- narrow confines of a city lot, and an im- Henry Ford, the famous automobile partment, can show a cheap, practicable mature flat or apartment. For him broad maker, is said to have learned the se- means of saving the by-products of acres and the waving wheat, the thrifty cret of being happy though his income stumps and of making them salable he will orchard, the lush growing c,ora and mea- & a million a month. He pursues the have found a way of making hundreds of dows. Workt Of course, it took work, but simple life in a modest country bunga- thousands, perhaps millions, of acres of it represents no taint ; there is no misrepre- lw, wears overalls much of the time at his Western land productive. The great ob- sentation, no chicane, no unearned incre- shops and keeps only two domestics. By stacles to clearing logged-off land are the ment of the parasite is in it. It is a lopping off superfluities he retains his high cost per acre, if men are hired for the tribute to the farmer's creative spirit. It peace of mind and by avoiding luxuries he purpose, tho laborious, back-breaking work adds to the wealth of the world and the keePs bis health. Others should emulate hia if the owner does it himself, and the ap- sustenance of human kind. It is part and -example. i parent uselessness of the stumps after they kindred with Nature's outdoor alchemy. ' are uprooted. . Is there any comparison between the two The St. Paul Dispatch says a thousand If, as Senator Brady believes, the pro- the city and country t Is there any choice men are leaving St. Paul each day for the aucts of stumps will sell for enough to pay between the man-made town and the God- harvest fields. These are the best kind of for clearing land, and if, as. experiments made country! ) reservists.