HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Machinery helps All 



"When our fathers began to use mach- 

 inery and better farming methods, it be- 

 came possible for one family to produce 

 enough to feed two families. This made 

 it possible for half of the population to 

 make the progress that a higher civiliza- 

 tion demands and at the same time the 

 farmer became the purchaser of articles 

 that were unheard-of luxuries. 



"With the spread of the improved 

 methods that are used by our better farm- 

 ers, it is possible that the time may soon 

 come when one farmer will raise enough 

 to feed five or six families. When this 

 time comes only 15 to 20 percent of the 

 population will be farmers. These farm- 

 ers will purchase many things not yet in- 

 vented, and all civilization will have taken 

 a long step forward." 



Too Many ^ armers 



"The Civil War lemoved so many per- 

 sons from production that prices were 

 very abnormal. With the war over, the 

 soldiers and others rushed to the great 

 fertile prairies of the Central West, hop- 

 ing to raise crops and secure these big 

 prices. Just as they became well estab- 

 lished, new machinery began to be intro- 

 duced, such as binders, drills, gang plows, 

 check row planters, and big threshing- 

 machines, making one of the most im- 

 portant and most dramatic revolutions 

 of history. These machines so increased 

 the productive capacity of the farmer as 

 to result in great over-production of 

 crops. The proportion of the population 

 required for farming was suddenly de- 

 creased so enormously that a rush to the 

 cities was necessary. But men couldn't 

 go fast enough to keep the balance. 

 There were too many farmers! The over- 

 production was so serious that from 1875 

 to 1897 we had a most serious agricultur- 

 al depression. A period of good prices 

 then developed and checked the rush to 

 the cities." 



The behavior of prices during the re- 

 cent war and the re-adjustment period 

 following has been and is continuing 



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MITH SCHOOL 



is a school where boys and 

 girls can continue their edu- 

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HEY can study modern 

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