Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1914 — MAKING FARMING PAT [ARTICLE]

MAKING FARMING PAT

VERY farmer hopes to make a profit as the result of his labors. J3i He toils early and late and spares no trouble to see that his crops are properly planted and harvested. His stock requires constant attem tlon, and, taking It altogether, he has few spare minutes. Most of the farmers in our community are prosperous. Our market Is a good one, while there are certain things to be desired, and we all reap our share of the results to our advantage. There is one benetft which the farmer receives from his labors that we do not share In but in the making d f which we all hhve a hand. That is the added value of his holdings as the/ grow In desirability and as the demand for land in our neighborhood increases. Because Increased -land values come as the result of conditions which afford additional opportunities of profitable crop raising, not the least of which Is the market which permits of a quick and desirable tale. Naturally there can be no need of a market if there ia nothing to eeil, nor can there be a profitable sale unless there Is the right market. So the Increase in the value of the farm comes with the better market conditions, the farmer finding better prices as the market becomes mors popular and the market becoming more popular with the number of farmers. THOSE WHO HELP TO MAKE THE MARKET BETTER ARE ENTITLED TO THE THANKS AND GOOD WILL OF THE FARMER. We all try our best to bring about such a condition and in this way we help to make farming pay. As a result of our efforts to help the farmer we expect him to do something in return. And when the thought is carefully analyzed it will be seen that we are actually asking him only to help himself even more than he win be helping us, by doing that which we ask. - We ask the farmer to buy his merchandise at home instead of sending to the big mall order houses for his goods. We believe that he can buy at home Just as advantageously as to send his orders out of town and that ho will be even better satisfied with his merchandise if he buys of our local storekeepers. But the main point is this: We need all of the. money In town. We need it for the purposes of business and we need the business that ho Is accustomed to send* away to the mall order houses. We want to stop their encroachments on local trade. We want to encourage local business men to provide stocks suitable and sufficient for local consumption, but If we send away for the goods we need, then the local business men will become discouraged and decline to Invest their money and credit in stocks for our town. In order to help hinjself the farmer must help the local merchant It Is only by such reciprocal conditions that a community can become prosperous and grow into a bigger community. And it is only by she fact that a farm is located in proximity to a good market that the farm will become more valuable. - Even if a farmer can make 4 profit on the buying of certain goods’ froiv a mail order house, in the end it will mean that bb has helped to stultify hi < home market, which tends to keep down land values. A DULL MARKTT NEVER MADE A BIQ TOWN. 0 \ . V; In this, we can all help and we are trying to help. The farmers who send their orders to the mail order houses do not think of she effect which their acts have on the community. They do not realize that they are helping to create a Sentiment which cannot but injure the financial condition of our home town; a sentiment which Interferes with the growth of the community and with the prosperity of every owner of land. 80. to make farming pay. In both the direct and the Indirect way, stand by the townspeople and help local business conditions. Every fanner has a share and an interest in his home town. He is as much affected by the prevailing conditions in the town as he is by the conditions on his own farm. THE TOWN CANNOT HAVE PROSPERITY WITHOUT »IS COOPERATION AND HE CANNOT LOOK FOR PROSPERITY IF HE DOES NOT LIVE IN A PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY. Any naan pan injure his community by tailing to co-operate with those whose interests are siniilar to his own. Shortsightedness may make a man believe that he is not Included in this general rule, but few can successfully evade Its application. Make farming pay by helping to “boost” your home town. Do your basinet* with our local storekeepers. * You will prosper more in the long run., UUY YOUR MERCHANDISE AT HOME l • ■ • •- • •«*