The National Co-Operator (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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Put a $16,000 Boy on a $1,000
Farm Instead of a $1,000 Boy
on a $16,000 Farm.
Does not the increase in land
values in this country raise a
question of supreme importance
with, reference to the opportuni-
ties of our coming generation, —
the young men who are now
growing to manhood and must
soon face the problem of provid-
ing a home and living for a
family?
The price of land in all the
States where agriculture has be-
come a well-established industry,
is now so high that a young man
coming out of school or college,
with his life and all its problems
before him, cannot, in any
reasonable time; in any occupa-
tion which is open to the average
man, earn enough under ordinary
circumstances, to buy a farm for
himself, so that he may own a
home. He must be either a
wage-worker or a tenant farm-
er.
Is there not a solution of this
problem which can be made to
apply to every young man of
average industry and capacity?
And is not that solution to put
the value and the power of pro-
duction from the land into the
boy himself, by a system of
right education, rather than in
the land? In other words, to
make this point clear, one hun-
dred and sixty acres of
land is none too much for a man
to have to furnish a good living
for himself and family, under
the ordinary methods of farming
now prevailing in this country.
But what is the purpose of work-
ing that farm? Is it not, first,
that the farmer may have a home
for himself and his family, and
second, that he may have an in-
come sufficient to enable them to
live in comfort, with all the ad-
vantages of education and social
environment which every citizen
of this country craves and should
have?
If that home and that income
can be just as well produced
from ten acres of land as from
one hundred and sixty acres, the
amount of money necessary to
secure the acreage required is
reduced from $16,000, the cost of
160 acres at $100 an acre, to
$1,000, the cost of ten acres at
$100 an acre. The acreage cost
may be put at $100 because, al-
though in many places land com-
mands a much higher price,
there is still plenty of good land
to be had where a young farmer
could start in life, for $100 an
acre.
A young man with no capital
except industry and ordinary ca-
pacity, can hardly hope to earn
$16,000, or to in any way save it
as the reward of his own labor,
during the earlier years of his
life. He might, if more than
ordinarily industrious and econo-
mical, save enough by the time
he reached middle life to buy
such a farm, but he could not
do so within a reasonable time
after he was ready to marry and
establish a home; much less, be-
fore or at that time.
Now, instead of bringing to-
gether a sixteen thousand dollar
farm and a one thousand dollar
boy, suppose that we reverse the
combination and put a sixteen
thousand dollar boy on to a one
thousand dollar farm. All that
is necessary to do that is to edu-
cate and train every boy who is
willing to receive the training,
in the public schools, from the
kindergarten to and including
the country college, so that he
will become so skilled in the art
and science of close and inten-
sive cultivation of the soil, in the
processes of plant growth, in ir-
rigation, soil culture and fertili-
zation, in the selection of the
kind of crops to grow, and in
the methods, processes and sys-
tems of marketing them, that by
intensive farming of a ten-acre
tract costing $1,000, your six-
teen thousand dollar boy will be
able to produce from ten acres a
greater profit by better and more
intensive methods of farming,
than the average farmer now
produces from one hundred and
sixty acres.
It is no longer a theory,—it is
an established and unquestioned
fact, that this is quite practica-
ble, and that the only element of
doubt is in the farmer himself.
Of course the average farmer
and landowner imagines that the
very least acreage he can get on
with is a quarter section, and
that the more land he has the
richer he is, and consequently,
he bends all his energies to
crowding out his neighbors and
adding as many acres as possible
to his own domain.
In the near future this greed
for land will gradually fade away,
and farmers will find that with
less land and more cultivation,
they can make more money, and
that the smaller the farm the
better the roads will be, the
more good neighbors they will
have, the better the schools and
churches, the libraries and social
environment, and that the greater
will be the educational advan-
tages they will be able to give to
their children. With "the small
farm well tilled," life itself be-
comes a vastly more valuable and
enjoyable thing than on the iso-
lated farm, where the owner is
devoting his life to laboriously
laying up money to buy out his
neighbors and isolate himself
still more from his fellow-man.
To carry out the plan above
suggested, it is only necessary to
get the idea firmly planted in the
American mind:—
That the thing to be consider-
ed is the life we live and our re-
lations with our fellow men,
rather than the amount of money
we may have in the bank or the
number of acres over which we
may exercise dominion. —Max-
well's Talisman. '
Ravages of In5ect Pests.
Statisticians say that the
chinch bug annually destroys
crops valued at $60,000,000; that
the grasshopper eats up $50,000,-
000 worth; the Hessian fly $40,-
000,000; the cotton root worm,
the cornear worm, the cotton
boll weevil and the codling moth
of apple each $20,000,000; the
army worms $15,000,000, the cot-
ton leaf worm and the potato
worm $5,000,000. This makes
a total of $298,000,000 worth of
products that might have been
expected to but never do get in-
to the market because of the
ravages of these most numerous
insects.
And this is not the only loss
charged to their accounts. Short-
age of crops affects various in-
dustries and increases prices, and
a deal of money is spent in fight-
ing the pests. Taking into ac-
count all these things, the an-
nual loss in this country from in-
sect pests, distributed among
the various products, is estimat-
ed as follows: Cereal, $200,000,-
000; animal products, $175,000,-
000; forest and forest products,
$111,000,000; truck crops and hay
and forage, $53,000,000; cotton,
$50,000,000; fruits, $27,000,000;
tobacco, $5,300,000; sugars, $5,-
000,000; miscellaneous crops, $5,-
800,000, and products in storage
$100,000,000, making a total of
$785,000,000.
The home In tin- hope of the nation.
Field Turned to Gold.
The American farmer arises,
agricultural report in hand, to
remark that it is all a mistake
about his being "stolid and stun-
ned, a brother to the ox."
He owns the ox, be gosh, and
it is the fattest and slickest ox
that treads the earth. The ox's
value, together with that of the
rest of the farmer's stock, fig-
ures up to the magnificent sum
of six billions of dollars.
The wealth of the American
farmer is the wonder of the
world. With the magic of a
Midas he has turned all his fields
to gold. The wealth production
on farms in 1905 has reached the
highest amount ever attained by
the farmer of this or any other
country.
The total figures - $6,415,000,-
000—are almost beyond compre-
hension. It may help in realiz-
ing the enormity of this amount
to know that if the farmer keeps
up this rate of production three
years more he will have produced
an amount of wealth within ten
years equal to one-half of the
entire national wealth produced
in three centuries.
It may help still further to
know that the agricultural ex-
ports—the surplus left over after
all home wants were supplied—
have amounted in sixteen years
to a round billion of dollars more
than the value of all the rail-
roads in the country.
Yes, the farmer has been do-
ing things on a scale so big that
ordinary comprehension hardly
can rise to it.
And the things he sells, at
prices which make fiction tales
of wealth look shrunken and
mean, by no means represents
the total of his riches. He still
owns the cow which this year
has yielded him $655,000,000.
He keeps the hens that pay him
half a billion a year. A single
year's increase in the value of
his farms equals the entire na-
tional debt.
He has money in the bank—
big wads of it. Indeed he owns
banks that are numbered by the
hundreds. The 1,754 country
banks organized in the last five
years are almost wholly owned
by the farmer.
The farmer is king of the land.
The cornstalk is an humble scep-
ter, but it yields 2,700,000,000
bushels, and that is more than
any other king's scepter, though
of gold and jeweled, ever did lor
him in all the history of the
world.
The farmer may have hayseed
in his hair, but he has $605,000,-
000 worth of hay in the market.
We may laugh at the straw in
his mouth, but must bow down
in respect before the most valua-
ble wheat crop ever produced in
any year in any land.—X.
Notice to Farmers Union Men.
Neosho, Mo., Dec. 22.—Well,--
our hearts feel almost as large
as our body since we attended
that great National Meeting of
the Farmers Union at Texarkana,
and we want to show the people
that we mean business and are
ready to do unto others as they
should do unto us.
The union men in Missouri have
some corn to sell yet, also some
good flour, which is made from
their own wheat, and have a
contract on farm implements, al-
so harvesting machinery, that
cannot be beat, either for quality
or price, and correspondence is
solcited along these lines, by all
parties needing such, who are
members of the Farmers Union.
In writing me please note the
following instructions: Give
name of city to which shipment
is to be made, on what railroad,
or roads the same is located, and
sign your name very plain.
Yours fraternally,
H. M. RAY,
State Organizer and Business
Agent for Mo.
N. B.—I would like to have 20
men to organize in Southern Mo.
All parties desiring such work
will please write me sending re-
commendation from their respec-
tive local union bearing the seal of
same.
The Best Fertilizer
Is One That Suits the Soil and Crop
The nil in** kind of (ertlliier will not iln will mi nil kinds nf -oil, nor for nil
kinds ot cro(in. We Iii'hIii ii MiiiI.V of the different Miikmcn of noils \\ Itli lefe enre
to l lie rro|i* to lie tfl'iiwil, then we reeoiiiltieml Hint Kind wllli'll ineetN I lie
requirement*
V rite UN for Noll report lilnItkrt; ;ilid till mil rurcfllllt. mid w e \\ ill iinnUI you
ill Ncleetlnu t lie rltillt fertiliser. ** e nuulyic niiII njihi|i1i-n free of chill-no when
liei'i'NN r> tojtrt DiIm Information. e lire tile oiil.v fi-itlllxer inn nnlni'l iiivi'h
who ilo tlilN. If our fertilixei-n nre iiNeil <in w e dlrert votir er |in will lie doubled
iiiui your Noil Improved nt the Niune lime, tMir ferttiller* linNlen urowlh, mill
help you to y;ei ii wood eottou erop before tlielioll weevil, Indl worm or iiriuv
worm k' tN III hIn work. Our plan In the riiclil one. iin your Stnle t'lienilxl will
tell you. Our (TiioiIk nre duly renUlered In your Suite, iiml went udorMcd by
nil wlio line llieiii. Write im or Nee your loeul n rent. It ineuiiN money for you.
ARKANSAS FERTILIZER CO.,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
HOLLOWAY SEEDS
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$200 IN CASH PRIZES
Our FARM and GARDEN BOOH for
19 0 6 nTmdre.$dy FREE
For the aiKiarf. Tell* all about the beit
Flower, Farm, Garden Seed* and Plant*
fer the Southern Grower. - - .
Oldest Seed House in the South
Established 32 Years
HOLLOWAY SEED AND FLORAL CO.
*21 Elm St., DALLAS. TEX.
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FARMER S UNION BOOKS
our HM'inWi'n In i-veiy Htnti' ln*r * we Iihvi 1111 oitfiintzMtlon. 'I In* ivportf from tlii'ne
ri wry eiicouni^rliiK Mi n> my It 1m tulnglng tin* nutnlili' fiirinern in our mum* One
brother utnlfil 1n on mnMetire where i win- thnt "one Imnk iiiinmiI ntnuni! In Mm
nelulibnrliooil, iimon^ tliefnrtnerH, cmiHeil the koixI MiibntMiitliil fniiniTM to Join the
I'liion " Tpon tlilM Mtiileincnt 1 moIiI 1 I « 11 ii eentn enrli. 'I lie prlre of the
book* 1h 10 cents where I innll thrm out. 1 herewlih iittneh Mmik mi nny one
cim fill out nnii mull illnrt to tlie ( o-<>perntor, unit mi i ure the 1<ooKm illrect from that
otli e. I urn not helling thew liookn for Mpei ulntlon, mm iiii,v one enn Mee from 1 he price.
All w ii nt 1m to fjjet eoMt for them I.et every Local 1'iilon tnke t he mutter up ami or-
iler twenty eopli m mix] ilMrlhute umonir the niemlierM anil those who are not mein-
beiM. o Local 1'iilon can In*ewt one dollar that will benefit t li -ui more tlinn to Meml
for twenty of theMe liookM. Mil out the blank below iiml mci il tn </<Mil'KUATOlt.
MlneolH.texiiN.orF. v. evans. 105 w, 1st st.. fort worth. tex.
send copies of
Farmers Union Book to
P. O State
I enclose Money Order for $ cents to pav for
same.
INDIAN
RECORDS
)UCED
I] 10 inch 60c(i
7 inch 35cfs.
SPECIAL PRICE
DOZEN LOTS
Setvd for Cat
Servd 60c<5. aivd a Sarop/e
Record will be delivered
Transportation, prepaid
"Play on any disc ma-
chine. We keep all kinds
of' talking machines in
stock. ::::::
prices of machines
S3.00 ^
Unique Talking Machine Co.,
1010 Prnlrle Avenue
Houston, Tkxas.
seize this oi'i'oit rr.M rv
Prepare Yourself
for a Salaried]
Position
by taking a course, either day
or night, four months in Book-
keeping or Stenography, in-
cluding all literary and com-
mercial branches, for only $15.
Old 'phone 8'>04. Uoth day and
night sessions.
MAGNOLIA CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE
T. .1. Arwooit, I'reNldent
1017V4 Cnpltul. HOUSTON, TEXAS
FIREARMS, AMUNITION, BICYCLES,
AND GENERAL SPORTING GOODS
We liny in ciir-loiiil lntH. We linve tlit*
prieeH.
i'nr-liuiil I'M re Wurkw Jnnt nrrlveil.
t iir-liinii I AI ('iiml Winchester iomleil
nIii'IIk nre In.
We well (ill SnltH iiml Sliekern, eneli i?nr-
meiit jfti'ininteeil. Money linek If nut, iih
reiiiVMenteil.
Every Shot (Inn tuiiile, Colt 1'lHtoln,
Itlflen, mnl everything In S|iortliiK OooiIh,
IlleyeleH, etc.
Write for prlcen. We meet thorn nil,
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•Jl-J-J Market St. OALVBSTON, TRXAS
Your money back if
BITHOMOL
Fails to cure Chills, Fevers and
Malarial Disorders.
50 cents at all Drug Stores.
Cigarette Habit
CURED
I cure tobacco halilt tn all form*, no
matter how ioiik you have uneil the
weed. Any reference you want.
Dr. J. S. Hill, (ireeuvllle, Texan.
LEARN TELEGRAPHY
mill STATION WORK for RAILWAY
SERVICE. We will tench vou
quick) v, lhoruiiKlily.pt action I ly,
nnd kiih nu k'ition if situa-
tfc>n is not nvtiRiini you,
l''or full Jrnrti ulart aildreu
DALLAS TELEGRAPH COLLEGE,
DlIlM, T* tt.
Farmers' Union Supplies
Can be had by writing the Min-
eola Courier. Always send Cash
with order. Following is price
list:
New Constitutions and Rituals
for all the states are now ready.
Constitutions 3 cents each and
rituals 2 cents each.
250 Note Heads $1.00
150 Envelopes i.oo
100 Union Trade Cards . 1.00
Receipt Book for Dues 50
Secretary's Minute Book 1.00
This MiNnor.a Coukikr,
Mineola. Texas.
branch's genuine rattle-
snake watermelon seed.
Carefully nelecteil. Kept I'l'ltK tlilrty-flve
your*. No other vnrlotv ifrim-n on plutitii-
tlon of l.loo nercN. Pure neeil iin|i<ihmilili-
where different klnilH ure urown. 1 or., 1 ,"ci
•2 okh , aoc: 4 iiTiH. Jlfic; Vii t >, <>Oc; 1 Hi, #1.00;
f> Him, ♦.*) Oil llellvererl. Iteinlt by Iti-KlHtci-cit
Letter or Money Order. Send for Seed An-
nunl, Mntiuiil on melon culture Riven with
eiich order. M. I. BRANCH, BERZALIA,
COLUMBIA COUNTY. SIORSIA.
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Pyle, O. P. The National Co-Operator (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 1906, newspaper, January 10, 1906; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254304/m1/3/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.