Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1918 — Farming on Paper Is Not Like the Farmer Finds It [ARTICLE]

Farming on Paper Is Not Like the Farmer Finds It

Farming on paper is really rare sport, writes Robert M. Gary in the Atlantic. I have planned entire farms, drawing them neatly on paper, with dotted lines to show the rows of berries and crosses to indicate trees. I have planted my crops, and cultivated them, harvested them, marketed them —always at a surprising profit, and without a moment’s worry about weather, caterpillars, birds or beetles. My hens have all laid two hundred eggs a year; my berries have all sold for 25 cents a box. Not a cow ever had hoof-and-mouth disease; not a pig had cholera. My farm was always situated on a New Hampshire moun-tain-side, overlooking lakes and rivers and sunsets. A soil which in reality produces blueberries and sweet fern, where it does not extrude rocks, on my farm is a foot in depth, as soft and moist as brown sugar, and fertile as an English meadow.