THE TENANT FARMER. 125 



1 don't presume to make an address so 1 want you to feel free 

 at any time to stop me and ask any (juestion or to make any 

 suggestions that come to your mind. 



The reason why there are not more orchards and fruit 

 grown on the average farms is just as much the landlord's 

 fault as the tenants'. I think in tliis question of landlord 

 and tenant that the landlord needs just as much education 

 as the tenant. In many cases the landlord is not up on farm- 

 ing himself, and in liis ignorance he drives the tenant to be a 

 land or soil robber who sometimes skims the land for all there 

 is in it. AVhen that exists there is no chance for horticulture 

 on that farm. Unless there is a feeling of thorough under- 

 standing between the landlord and tenant — the landlord un- 

 derstanding the conditions of agriculture thoroughlv himself 

 — and the tenant being a capable, honest man that you want 

 to keep on your land for an indefinite length of time, a man 

 who will make that farm a home for himself, with the idea of 

 treating that land just as he would if it were his own, there is 

 no chance for horticulture. But where that condition does 

 exist there is no reason why the tenant farmer should not have 

 just as good fruit on that farm as if he owned it himself. I 

 take a pride in making the tenant farmers we have, to a man, 

 take as much pride in the farm as if he owned it himself. I 

 don't want any one to drive past one of our farms and say 

 there is a tenant farmer. There is too much of that. In the 

 county in Avhich I live — Gage county — it does not take a prac- 

 ticed eye at all to pick out the tenant farmers, or farms, and 

 that is true with the wliole of the United States as a rule. 

 There are unsuccessful landlords as well as unsuccessful ten- 

 ants; if a landlord doesn't understand the phase of agricul- 

 ture himself and isn't liberal minded towards the tenant he 

 can't expect the tenant to be so towards him, and if he isn't 

 that way he won't make that farm look like a farm, but will 

 make it look like the average tenant farm, and that is espe- 

 cially true in regard to the horticultural opportunities. 



The average tenant we will say, after he takes a piece of 



