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FARMING . . Mr. Hlunter’s way
After listening with a great deal
of disgust to all the talk about
farmers having no chanoe these
days, I experienced somewhat of a
thrill to read about David Hunter
of Iowa, who has run $4.88 up into
$30,000 in 20 years of farming.
Mr. Hunter is now 45 years old
and he celebrated his birthday by
burning paid-up mortgages for near
ly $26,000, the money he had ibor-
rowed to buy and equip the 160-
acre farm. He also rents a 360-acre
farm and says that he has made
money every year but one since
1916, when he started farming.
This, to me, is just another evi
dence that a good farmer can make
a good living on good land, any
where, any time.
MOVING .... to fertile sofl
I have just sold my old, rocky
hillside farm in Berkshire County,
Massachusetts and I am moving to
a more fertile and prosperous agri
cultural region, in Bucks County,
I’ennsylvania.
After spending a large part of
my Summer looking over this reg
ion where generations of thrifty
Quakers and “Pennsylvania Dutch”
have made themselves rich from
farming and their descendants are
still making good money from the
soil, I am not surprised that so
jnany generations of New England
youth have left its rocky hills to
go into farming in the more fertile
regions lying between the Hudson
River and the Great Plains.
There are still good farms and
good farmers in New England, but
most of them have a tough time of
it. All New England is becoming a
sort of a national playground. Like
France, New England relies upon
the tourist trade for an increasing
part of its income. It will always be
to me the most beautiful part of
the world.
PROXIMITY .... a factor
My main reason for moving, be
yond the fact that I got more for
niy New England property than it
was worth, is that I have to be in
close touch with New York, and
Pennsylvania is less than half as
far away as Massachusetts. Few
people realize how narrow the State
of New Jersey is. It is only 60
miles from the Hudson to the
Delaware, and both railway and
highway travel is much faster east
and west from New York than
northward.
Another thing I like about Penn
sylvania is that there is no state
incom'c tax and property taxes are
the lowest I have ever heard of
anywhere.
New Yorkers are just beginning
to discover that Northwestern
Pennsylvania is more accessible
than Western Connecticut or even
Northern Westchester County, and
real estate prices have not begun
to soar.
ELECTRICITY . . . low rates
Another thing I like about Penn
sylvania is that the rate for electric
current is lower than anything I
know of in the East.
I am going to try heating my
entire supply of domestic hot wat
er by electricity using a scheme
called the “off peak” rate. The elec
tric company installs an 80-gallon
hot water tank with an electric
heating unit, and charges me one
cent a kilowatt hour for current,
except between the hours of 4 to
10 p. m., when they have a de
mand for all the current they can
produce.
I am told that this is the cheap
est electric current rate anywhere
an America, and that I can get hot
water for all household purposes
cheaper than by coal, gas or oil.
Anyway, I am going to try it and
will report progress. .If it can be
done in one place, I don’t see why
it can’t be done everywhere.
SPEED . . arolund the world
Nearly 60 years ago Jules Verne,
the French romantic novelist, wrote
a book called “Around the World
in 80 Days.” It was pure fiction.
Forty-five years, ago a New York
newspaper woman who w'rote under
the name of Nellie Bly, set out to
beat that time. She got around the
world in 72 days, using only the
regular means of transportation
available to anj^body.
Now two New York newspaper
reporters have started to try to
go around the world in 20 days,
still using regular transportation
lines all the way. They flew East
on the big airship “Hindenburg”
to Germany, thence they go by
plane to Rome, a train across Italy
to Brindisi, then a through plane
to Hong Kong with a few stop
overs on the way,' by ship from
Hong Kong to Manila, and then
back across the Pacific on the big
new plane, the “China Clipper,” to
San Francisco, to catch the night
plane, which will land them in New
York the following morning.
If nothing happens to disturb
their schedule they will simply
demonstrate that anybody who
wants to and has $3,000 to spend
can go around the world in 20 days,
a quarter of the time which it
took Jules Verne’s Phileas Fo^g.
Black Locust Aids
In Erosion Control
That black locust has become a
large factor in the control of soil
erosion is evidenced by the favor
able results obtained from plant
ings made by the soil conservation
service, according to Reuben Mar-
golis, forester of the Huntersville
demonstration area at Charlotte.
Last year the service planted
over sixty thousand black locust
seedlings in gullies, and on galled
and badly eroded spots in this
area. This year farmers cooperat
ing in the soil erosion control pro
gram are expected to plant 100,000
more seedlings.
Besides checking erosion, black
locust is a soil enricher, Margolis
pointed out. A legume by virtue
of the nitrogen fixing nodules on
its spreading root system, it will
grow and thrive on poor, dry, and
eroded soil.
Generally where other species
will not grow in gullies or on
eroded hillsides, black locust checks
soil washing. On better soils the
black locust yields fcnce posts in 10
to 20 years. On eroded soils a few
more years are required.
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SOIL CONSERVATION
and HEALTH
There is a distinct relatiansmp
between soil conservation and hu
man health. One of the home dem
onstration club women made this
wise observation: “Our chddren are
the most important crop we raise.
Aside from the fact that farmers
want good crops and healthy ani
mals, it seems to many of us that
the most important reasoh for con
serving the soil is to raise a good
crop of children.
When we fertilize the soil, we
put various mineral elements back
into the soil; these elements hav
ing been lost in various ways, n
these minerals are not present m
the soil, they cannot be present in
plants, in animals, or the food ot
human beings.
The following statement was
made by Dr, Charles Northern, a
man who is spending his life ^ in
experimenting w’ith foods and soils.
“We must make soil building the
basis of food building, in order to
accomplish human building. Sick
soils make sick plants, sick animals,
sick people. It is simpler and
cheaper to cure sick soils than
sick people.”
Some of the elements we put
back into the soil through the use
of fertilizers are the following:
Phosphorus, sulphur, calcium or
lime, magnesium and potassium. In
view of the following facts, is it
not more than esential that we
feed our soils ?
Leading authorities assert that
99 per cent of the American people
are deficient in minerals. Where
do these people obtain their min
erals? Through their food, which
consists of plants and animals, w^ho
in turn secure their food from the
soil.
A marked deficiency in any of
the necessary minerals results in
disease. “Many backward children
are stupid merely because they are
deficient in magnesia. We punish
them for our failure to feed them,”
Dr Sherman, of Columbia Univer-
^itv states that 50 per cent of the
American people are- starvmg for
calcium, A recent article in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association stated that of 4,000
cases in New York hospital only
two were not suffering from lack
of calcium. Lack of calcium in
food results in the following; rick
ets or bone deformity, bad teeth,
nervous troubles, reduced resistance
to other diseases, and many be
havior troubles, “The soil around
a certain midwestern city is poor
in calcium. Three hundred children
of this community w»ere examined
and nearly 90 per cent had bad
teeth, 69 per cent had nose and
throat troubles, swollen glands, en
larged or diseased tonsils. 3'Iore
than onc-third had defective- vis
ion, round shoulders, bow legs and
anemia.
Women, do you know in what
foods these elements are present ?
Men, do you know whether or not
these elements are present in your
soil? Through membership in home
demonstration clubs and coopera
tion with your farm agent you
can find out. Are your children well
nourished ? Do you know how to
prepare and cook foods in order to
preserve these 'elements ? Do you
realize that improper cooking will
destroy them ? Surely our children
are the most important crop we
raise. Are we coop'crating in order
that they may not be sick in body
or in mind ?
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