THE FARMER'S FORUM
The Farmer's Forum Farm Advantages WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN gives eight good reasons why young men should choose farming in preference to the other occupations and professions. Here they are: "(1)...
...The country needs more mortgages and fewer tenant farmers...
...of the students are boys and girls from the surrounding country...
...But if these farmers were joined with their neighboring farmers, co-operatively, it would then be possible to reap the advantages of "marketing by the carload...
...Our present supply of this wood is fast diminishing...
...They played ball, and, it is said, leap-frog...
...8) the farmer is the most independent factor in our political life...
...Farmers' children are encouraged to attend the high school at----They have special agriculture and domestic science courses and about fifty per cent...
...It isn't...
...Carload Lots IT WAS pointed out in a recent bulletin of the North Dakota Experiment Station that "the carload is the unit in handling a great many things on the market as well as on the railroad...
...But he longed to do his neighbors a human service, on week-days as well as on Sundays...
...A Bad Showing THE steady increase of tenantry—-that is having more effect on Congressmen than any other argument in favor of a scientific system of helping the farmer to secure cheap capital...
...Oh, may our new land be From sea to whitening sea, One Temple of the Free...
...A system intended to 'help the farmer pay his mortgage' is all buncombe...
...What Happens When Men Get Together HERE is the description of some work done by a live Wisconsin image and country club...
...Here they are: "(1) Farming is the most independent way of living...
...The further suggestion might be made that here is to be found one of the advantages of cooperative marketing by the farmers of any community...
...The dean, took it up, called the faculty and the railroad officials in consultation, and ministers' week at the university farm school at Davis was the result...
...in 1910, 37...
...A good illustration of how social lite among the farmers may be bettered is supplied by----- Wisconsin...
...in 1890, 28...
...Farm and Fireside sums up the situation tersely as follows: "In 1S80 the percentage of tenant farmers in the country was 25...
...4) farm life is healthful...
...They learned much about farm methods, farm animals, farm economy, and farm sociology, and probably more about men, though they did not realize it...
...One house of friends...
...Here is an illustration of a kind of Conservation service that should be given the encouragement and support of the whole country- Next to stopping the wanton waste of our forests, comes the discovery of ways of using our supply of wood so as to secure the greatest benefits to mankind...
...So this minister wrote to Dean Hunt of the college of agriculture of the state university and suggested a plan, or an idea, of co-operation between minister and farmer...
...3) all members of the family can participate in some way in the work of the farm...
...a system of rural credits that will help in this direction will be useful...
...The parents of the children and any other farmers are invited and encouraged to attend these shows...
...Was it yours...
...Six hundred ministers from all parts of the state were on a lark for a week, enjoying life, probably, as they had not enjoyed it since they were boys, because it was real life...
...In this way the lowest transportation charges are secured and the price secured is often better too than if a smaller quantity had been sold...
...5) farming develops useful habits of industry and application...
...The parents of these students are invited to all the high school entertainments...
...The experts at the Forest Products Laboratory have found eleven kinds of wood never used before that give promise of being suitable...
...The promoting of social life among the farmers of this district is all based on the----- plan and is done through the high school...
...New America" EDWIN MARKHAM wrote a song "New America" for the New York Labor Forum, celebrating Independence Day...
...The conservation work of the United Statesi Forest Products Laboratory at Madison has been directed toward finding substitutes for the pulp wood now used in the making of paper...
...They have a high school orchestra and quartet, which goes around to the country school houses giving concerts...
...New Woods for Paper THE "famine" of news print paper may be broken...
...His neighbors grew alfalfa beside the Sacramento, but alfalfa by the river's brim mere alfalfa was to him, and it was nothing more...
...This campaign to promote social life among the farmers was instigated and carried out mainly through the efforts of the city commercial club...
...Ministers "Get Next" to Farm Work AGRICULTURAL training for parsons takes us back to the old days —yet not so very old in England— when the vicar and the curate had their gardens, their orchards, their pigs and their poultry, and in that way came in close and sympathetic contact with their rural parishioners...
...Rev...
...7) farm life teaches the true philosophy that labor is honorable and worthy of reward...
...Frederick I. Drexel, pastor of the Baptist church at Willow, in the Sacramento Valley, California, was in an agricultural community, but he himself was a scholar rather than a farmer...
...They learned about man's work, and that labor, far from being a curse, is his greatest blessing...
...As a result, anyone can find in that community an unusually prosperous class of farmers...
...Uncle Sam's experts have produced seventy samples of paper by different processes from practically unused woods...
...The railroad, figuring on future traffic, gave the transportation, and the farm school stood host, the students giving up their dormitories and going to the barns...
...in 1900, 35...
...They sang songs, cracked jokes...
...That's a mighty bad showing, and it gives worry...
...The song was read by Secretary Carl Beck of the Mayor's committee and men sung by all the Labor Singing Societies...
...Ministers' week will be held annually at the farm school, and between times the ministers will endeavor to "get next" the farmers, learning and teaching at the same time—-John T. Bramiiall in The Survey...
...During the summer and fall they have picnics for the farmer, held on the school grounds and in the high school building...
...And they studied, too, listening to half a dozen lectures a day with all the earnestness of a Chautauqua class cramming for a degree...
...Once weekly, during school sessions, the students of a country school are invited to attend special moving picture shows free of charge, held at the high school building...
...Few farmers produce commodities that are ready for market at any given time in sufficient quantities to be disposed of in carload lots...
...Following is the final stanza which is reproduced by permission of the poet: God, show us Love's great way, And lead us, day by day, To your great ends...
...And its experiments with hitherto unused woods have gone so far that two large newspapers have successfully used the new product...
...A lot of city Congressmen still think that's what we want...
...2) less capital is required to start farming than to enter any other independent business...
...And the suggestion is made that "in planning the production it will often be advantageous to plan to have a carload of hogs or a carload of cattle or a carload of potatoes, or whatever the product...
...It was a week of play and work, with never an idle minute...
...6) the farm provides the most wholesome environment for growing children...
Vol. 8 • July 1916 • No. 7
