Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1910 — IN NEED OF FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

IN NEED OF FARMERS.

SewMHjr for Men of' Intelligence on Eaafern Farms. A Georgia newspaper, commenting on the cry from one of the counties of that big State for 1,000 more farmers, remarks that there are 146 oountles in the State which need as many. The chance of getting fanners for the neglected Georgia land is better than tha chance of getting good farmers. All the Eastern and Northern States sadly need good farmers, competent, Intelligent, up-to-date men to till the soil properly and get from it the largest and best crops with the least possible expenditure of toll and money, the New York Times says. A fair share of both capital and labor is needed in agriculture, of course, but intelligence. a good measure of enthusiasm, the will to learn and the ability to apply learning practically are more essential. New York State needs farmers of the best sort as badly as Georgia needs them, though perhaps not so many; 146,000 swooping down at once on the abandoned, neglected or 111-managed farms of the Mohawk valley and the upper and lower *ti4r counties would scarcely be able to find land enough to work on. There are some intelligent farmers in New York and New England, but not many in comparison with the poor and thriftless onea The modern farmer must adapt himself to modern conditions. He should know how to market crops as well as to grow thorn. should not be content to do things the way his honorable but benighted forefathers did them. He need not, if he have his wits about him, be controlled by middlemen. Hia market opportunities are enormous. The development of chemistry and mechanics has greatly increased his chances of makihg agriculture profitable.