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The Penniless Farmer's Chance

By Hilda Richmond

IN SPITE of the cry that the high price of land is driving young farmers to other occupations there never vifas a- time ■when an ambitious young country man had 'a better chance than right now. It is true that farm lands, implements, the cost of living and clothing are high, but there are some other things high on the other side of the sheet. Farm products are selling at a very high rate, and farm labor is very scarce, and farm opportunities are multiply- ing every year, so that the opening for young country men is very wide and invit- ing.

With his bare hands any young man can lay the foundation of a modest fortune in a short time, and do it under the most healthful and invigorating conditions. In other words, there never was such a demand for good tenants as there is at present — tenants, not farm hands. Of course there is a steady cry for farm hands, but a young man should seek a place as a tenant instead of as a laborer, for in the former there are chances that the country is just waking up to all over the land.

Hundreds of middle-aged men in every county in the older part of the farming community are wanting to retire from active work either by moving off the farm or taking a young man into partnership with them. These men feel that they have earned a rest, yet there is no one to whom they can safely entrust their business.

Their own sons have gone to the cities or are settled on farms of their own, and the hired men they are able to get are a vexation to the spirit in most instances. In despair the farmer sells out and invests the money in bonds or something else, to be rid of the care of the farm, and then moves to town. And right here is where the ambitious young man finds his chance.

Practically a Junior Partner

Some of these elderly farmers would be glad to take into partnership young capable workers, and the young farmer would step at once into a well-equipped establishment. The owner and his wife retire to town with the old family horse and seldom bother the tenant from fall to spring, but often drive out in summer-time. If the young man has a sensible, agreeable wife who is willing to do her part in making the arrangement a success, everything is likely to go well, and at the end of the first year the junior partner has a nice little bank-account to show for his labors.

A moment's comparison with the prospect of a shop worker will easily convince the young farmer that the country holds as many chances for money-making as the town. Suppose the shopman gets three dol- lars per day the year around — a good wage for the average young worker. Out of this amount he must pay rent, fuel, living ex- penses and light bills, to say nothing of clothing for himself and his family. The tenant gets his fuel free, his living, or most of it, free, and his pleasures in a great meas- ure for nothing. He drives the owner's horse on his pleasure trips, uses the owner's tools to do the work, lives in a comfortable house and has enough butter-and-egg money to supply the family clothing if his wife is a good manager. The town worker may have his little garden and his few hens, but these are not to be compared with the potato-patch, the truck-patch and the poultry-yard out of which the tenant's family lives, almost, and from which supplies are often sold.

Very often much of the furniture is left in the farmhouses by the owners, and this is

Where everything is furnished and the customary two-fifths grain rent allowed, the young farmer can make money. Without a cent invested he gets what he works for in the way of grain and has every incentive to make the farm produce its best.

If the tenant is able to furnish part of the stock or the implements, the proportion of grain he receives is greater. Also, there is a provision made to give him part of the increase of the stock. A hired day-laborer or man working by the month will go to bed and leave the young lambs to chill, but the man who owns an interest in the lambs is on the alert to care for them. The same may be said of all stock. A young farmer ought to be a share renter for the good it will do him in the way of caring for the land and the stock, if for nothing else.

His Tenant Elxperience Was Worth a College Course

A young man who saved up enough money in eight years to buy a fine farm of his own said that his tenant experience was more to him than a college course. In that time he learned about ditching, pruning, fence-build-

An opportunity for young men to consider

no small item. The elderly man and his wife going into a small cottage find their old- fashioned stoves and tables and cupboards too heavy to move and are glad to leave them for the tenant to use. Of course they are not in style, but they help out wonder- fully and save much money. In most towns gas is used for fuel, so the cooking stove or range remains on the farm along with such articles as cannot be crowded into the new home or be profitably sold or stored.

The shower that comes to the city dweller the first of each month

ing, soil fertility and other farm problems at first hand and on another man's land. He had found out defects in farm architecture and farm management, and when he took charge of his own place was able to bring to the work a matured judgment and a knowledge of farming that made him suc- cessful from the start.

The mistakes he would have made as a tenant the owner largely corrected, and it was this submission to authority that saved him from many financial losses. He frankly said the farm he would have bought and mortgaged at twenty-one did not appeal to him at twenty-nine. Being a tenant was the right sort of schooling for him, and he was on the alert for a bargain in farm lands. He had learned much about defective titles, poor soil, undesirable neighbors, locations that sell . well and those that are a drug on the real-estate market, and hundreds of other essential things.

Another but less desirable chance is the one where the town man owns the farm. There are advantages to this sort of tenant- farming as well as disadvantages, for the city man is almost always eager and anxious to buy the latest improved machinery and fine stock. The elderly owner of the soil who has lived there most of his life is conserva- tive and slow-going, but the city man wants to have a farm up-to-date in every par- ticular.

All he asks is a fair financial return, and he is willing to provide the funds to keep the farm going. In many ways the city owner is really better to deal with than the country owner. The craze for farms by city people has multiplied the chances of the penniless young farmer many times, and any faithful, competent farmer can easily find a good place. A city man hunted the country over for a farm worker at a good salary, but found no one who wanted the job. They were all provided for with share farming, or else were refusing to take any but such work, saying that working by the month did not compare with tenant-farming.

Don't Mortgage Your Happiness

But the best of it all is that the young farmer has a chance to make money on the share plan without being burdened with debt. A small debt is a great incentive to thrift and hard work, but too often the young man mortgages more than the farm when he buys land and has little or nothing to pay down. He mortgages the health and happiness and enjoyment of his whole family many times, and in the end is a soured, disappointed man without a home at the very time when he needs a home the most. It sounds very alluring, this talk about a home of one's own, but a farm mortgaged to the limit belongs to the man who owns the mortgage, not the struggling man who farms it.

Better start in a healthy, sane manner as a tenant, particularly when there are such good prospects for tenants, than to struggle with hopeless debt for years and years. The tenant has many opportunities over the man hopelessly in debt, and the country is just waking up to this fact.

With no taxes to pay, no rent, no fuel to buy and a very low expense-account for living he can enjoy his work ai^d keep

healthy and happy, and. best of all, he can be acquiring such a fund of knowledge and experience that when he has the ready cash to buy his own farm he will get the very most for his hard-earned money and be on the highway to success from the very start.

The Back-to-the-Lander

By Robt. M. McCabe ■MOW and then, when you're on the hunt for those who tried and didn't, you'll find a fellow who struck off the farm when he was in his teens, putting up all his bet- ting-money at about 100 to 1 odds that he'd strike twelve in the busy marts of the great metropolis, where mother went by interurban every bargain Monday to be one of the guests at the big bargain festival which broke frequently at Beldenheimer's store upon the littlest provocation. You'll find such a one landing in a few years at a mahogany desk, the fitting accompaniment to a job that pays less in a month than the same desk cost, for the kings of finance and the successful pursuers of the elusive gold coin are long on desks.

How He Climbs

Your discovery started early in the game before the competition got too keen, touting it as a cinch that he'd be a bloated bond- holder and chief custodian of the key to the government's money-making machine in a few years, with fair play and no favorites. After catching on as manhandler pro tem. of the office broom and successfully master- ing the accomplishment of persuading the imitation tile floor to yield liberally of its microbes daily at about 5 :30 a. m., the ambi- tious climber with the future hog tied in a sack is appointed to official opener and dis- tributer of the mail. Then by inches and hunches, instead of the fabled leaps and bounds, he rises up to the extent of signing the vice-secretary's name to the circular let- ters doping out some sure way to the rapid accumulation of the mazuma.

He Finds the Answer

While getting there he had taken on a girl wife as a starter for the family, which costs more for upkeep than a two-cylinder, six- passenger runabout. About the time the col- lectors for the Dry-Goods Emporium, the meat-market, the egg-dispensary and the milk-factory begin appearing oftener than the boss with a kick, he begins to shoot inquiries at himself, such queries tending to the point that he acted like a dilapidated question mark when he left home and hit the trail for the garden where the simo- leons are supposed to grow on rubber-trees and multiply like a family of guinea-pigs, and where the big ones are supposed to gather and pluck all the loose change from the safety-deposit boxes of the alleged easy looseners in the tall-grass regions.

About the only answer he can find to his own riddle is that he was a solid head for ever saying good-by to the land of the free and trading an easy start and a soft going for a hard chair and a continuous jar. And then he gets his intellect back in the corner and finds out the answer.

He wants to get back to the soil, as other men have done ; he thinks he'd like to toil beneath the kind June sun. He knows he'd like to pail the cow and herd the lowing sheep ; he has it figured out just how many pigs and ducks he'd keep. He thinks he knows about the corn, the oats and barley too ; he wants to rise at early morn, the dairy work to do. He wants to change his office chair for God's great out-of-doors; he wants to get most anywhere to farm and do the chores. He thinks he'd like a motor too, and hens and geese and things ; he knows he'd like farm work to do and get the joys it brings. He's tired of city's moil and strife, he seeks for joy each day; he wants to live a carefree life — and thinks he knows the way.

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I Crops and Soils |

Boys and Bushels

By F. R. MUler

WHEN the boy corn-growers of Hamblen County. Tennessee, met the other day to file their final re- ports and receive the numerous and liberal prizes offered by the business men of Mor- ristown. those who had been instrumental in organizing the club found a number of pleasant and encouraging surprises in store for them.

County and State Averages

Fifty-two boys secured yields in 1912 of sixty-four to one hundred and eighteen and one-half bushels per acre. Six of the num- ber secured one hundred bushels or more per acre. Hamblen, by the way, is the only county in eastern Tennessee in which more than three one-hundred-bushel yields were secured. The average yield per acre for the fifty-t%vo boys was ninety-one bushels. The highest average yield in Hamblen County heretofore has been twenty-five bushels. The average for the State is twenty-six.

A number of boys reported that their fathers had become interested in the instruc- tions sent out by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculttire, and had followed them in their corn-growing this year.

One of these farmers secured a yield of five hundred and fourteen bushels from ten acres of upland. His boy, who had selected a piece of bottom-land, was less fortunate. Continued rains interfered with cultivation and replanting, and the boy harvested only seventy-five bushels. But his father, who a year ago laughed at the principles of modern agriculture, has learned the lesson and will farm no more in the old way.

At a meeting of the boys early in the spring I turned to an old gentleman sitting near by, at the conclusion of an address by one of Uncle Sam's demonstration agents, and asked, "What do you think of it?" referring to the expert's explanation of the new method of raising corn. "Sounds fine," he replied, "and looks good on paper, biit it won't work out on the farm. I've been raising com all 'my life, and I think I know a thing or two about farming. How- ever, if my boy wants to try it, he can have any piece of ground I've got, and I'll help him, for I want him to have a chance at everything good that comes along. If he raises more com on one acre than I do on five. I'll admit that my father, grandfather and I were all wrong, and begin farming the boy's way."

Father Enthusiastic Over Son's Success

The old gentleman's boy secured the third largest yield in the county this year and at an average cost of only fifteen cents per bushel, on upland. I saw the father the other day and reminded him of our former conversation. He had learned the lesson and enthusiastically told me of his plans for the coming year. If they are carried out that man will realize more from his farm during the next five years than he has in all of his forty years' experience.

Hill Culture for Strawberries

By W. D. Boynton

TN ANY section of the country where the ^ strawberry-vines do not require winter covering the hill system of growing is by far the best The matted row is a sort of lazy man's practice at best. It seems to offer the easiest way out for the strawberry-grower.

In nearly all portions of the West, where high intensive culture is applied to all fruit- growing, the hill system is strictly adhered to in the growing of strawberries. Growers are after high-colored and firm berries for long-distance shipments, and they find that hill culture alone produces those desired qualities. The total yields are about the same, even when the hills are thirty inches apart each way. as is the custom with the Coast country planters. The berries are so much larger and uniform in size that the yield is kept fully up to the matted-row product.

Even at thirty inches the ground is com- pletely occupied by the roots, which these hills send out full fifteen inches when they have the opportunity. While there is but the one plant in the hill, it throws up four or five heads from this one big root system with large rich feeding-ground, and the fruit-stems are enormous in size.

The cultivator is run both ways, so that the whole surface of the ground is con- stantly worked, thus providing that all-im- portant adjunct of good culture, a dust mulch over all the surface. In the matted- row system the culture is but partial at best, and fully half the surface is of weedy, packed ground, from which evaporation of moisture is constantly going on. And then, too. tmder the hill system the field can be retained longer in bearing, since it is always kept clean, and no crowding occurs. The latter makes the life of the matted field one of short duration.

The hill field is always left as much as three years, and sometimes four years. With the constant close-up-about-the-hill cultiva- tion, fertilizers can be worked in when necessary.

Picking is ELasier and Waste is Reduced

Of course the great objection that is gen- erally made to this hill culture is the labor of keeping down the persistent runners, especially the first season of setting the bed. The cultivator will keep them swinging around so that they do not take root, but occasionally the grower must go through and cut them back, so that the main hill will not be robbed of its strength and sustenance. The succeeding years are n'ot nearly so bad. On the whole, it is doubtful if the matted- row system lets the grower out with any less labor. He must plant his patch oftener, and it is much more work to cultivate and weed it out in the matted row. Picking goes rapidly from these large distinct hills, with their large and evenly sized fruit, so that on the whole it is like most other lazy men's methods, this matted-row business, and really makes him more work than if done right from the start.

The picking in the matted rows by the usual heedless help is a wasteful slaughter of the green fruit. The vines are mauled about and sat upon so that the next day's hot sun will cook them. The berries of the hill plan are in small distinct clumps and offer no temptation to mash down, as the fruit hangs out on all sides in plain sight, con- stantly exposed to the sun. I have seen an occasional picker take eleven twenty-four- box crates from hills in a day, which could hardly be done from the matted row. As the berries are in plain sight and very large, there is not the temptation for the picker to take under-ripe or over-ripe friiit or culls.

Especially in places where the space is very limited, as in town gardens, the hill system is attractive both from its economy of space and in regard to the neat appear- ance of a hill patch. These hills can be pro- tected for the winter by using a little more hay or straw. Of course the very nature of the matted bed helps to carry it through the winter, as it furnishes part of its own pro- tection, and even if a few plants are lost it is not so serious as to lose hills.

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