Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — The Farmer of the Future. [ARTICLE]

The Farmer of the Future.

The future farmer will subirrigate his land and defy drought as well as floods. He will become a scientific forester, and every farm will produce wood and lumber as well as wheat and apples. A single acre will produce what ten acres yield now. Women will work outdoors as heartily as men—in feet, they will be the horticulturists and the truck gardeners. There will be closer relation between the producer and the consumer, ignoring a horde of middlemen who frequently waste more than is destroyed by ignorant help and insect foes combined. Under the alliance with the school tbe fnrm will be valued not only for its gross weight of products, but for its poems and its education. As our schools become places for applying as well as acquiring knowledge, our farm homes will become integral parts of the garden school and the school farm. Tbe alliance between the home and the school will become very close. A valley full of farms is already the nearest to paradise that we have, but the future will tenfold its wealth and hundredfold its delights.—lndependent.