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HOPE FARM NOTES 
Having lived for several years ill the up to d 
South. I know something about cotton fellows 
and its limitations. 1 have no thought waiting 
of producing a crop of lint. There is lish hin 
one record, I think, of maturing cotton was not 
in Connecticut. Before the Civil War —even ; 
Delaware and Maryland grew quite a ing one 
little cotton, and I am quite sure the try on 
earlier varieties can he matured three me.” 
times out of five in Southern New Jersey. 
There would he no profit in the crop, 
however- at any prices which now seem 
probable iu the future. The cotton crop 
belongs to a warmer climate. The South¬ 
ern States long held a monopoly of its 
production, but now. 1 think, that mo¬ 
nopoly is to be broken. California. Ari¬ 
zona and adjoining States are producing 
line cotton. They are likely to interfere 
with the Southern cotton crop just as 
they have largely broken the business of 
growing melons in New Jersey. Then as 
a result of the great World War and the 
change of this nation from a debtor to 
a creditor of Europe, I think many new 
cotton fields will be developed. I can see 
do reason why Egypt. Southern Itussia 
and parts of Asia and Northern Africa 
cannot produce cotton as reasonably as 
our Southern States. These new areas 
will be under control of English, French 
and German manufacturers, and these 
nations, if shut out from our markets, 
will surely develop new sources of supply 
for their cotton. In fact, I think the old 
Cotton-growing States are approaching an 
industrial revolution which will operate to 
change conditions just as New England, 
New Jersey and Eastern New York were 
forced to change cm 
by the development of 
in producing bread and meat. And, what 
is of greater importance, these changes 
of crops and conditions at the South will 
react upon the industries of our own sec¬ 
tion and force us into new changes. 
The 
Hitch 
Adjusts 
Itself 
That’s Why the “40 
Pulls Lighter 
"How much did you say you were 
paid ?” 
“Twenty dollars a month and board. 
That was above the average wage." 
"Could you live on that?” 
"I lived, bought, clothes, paid my few 
debts, and saved money enough with 
which to enter college—and had no other 
income!" 
“How could anyone do that?" 
“Only by saving every penny possible. 
There was. and is. no other honest way. 
T.ife was very simple in those days. There 
were no very rich and few very poor in 
the West at that time. Society had not 
settled into classes so as to form any 
aristocracy either of wealth, family or 
power. Every young man looked forward 
to the time when he would be a land 
owner and have as good a chance as any- 
These new areas one of going to the l egislature or being 
elected Governor. The hired man would 
be his own boss tomorrow. It was a time 
of fine opportunity—the golden ago of tin 
independent and ambitious boy. lie was 
In fact, I think the* old just as good as anybody, and no better 
than everybody. 
“Are your own boys working out in 
that, way?" 
"No. Yet some of them are coming so 
•s ami farm habits close to it that I know they could and 
the Western States would if they were pushed up against 
conditions as I was. The ambitious bov 
of today does not have the advantages 
which were found in a pioneer age. The 
conditions which surround him are differ¬ 
ent. Fife is softer. What to us were luxur¬ 
ies far beyond our reach are now regarded 
as necessities. Let any young man today 
go to that same Western town where 1 
worked, and try to win out oil $20 a 
month, and lie would fail. My hoys are 
probably above the average in intelligence 
and nmbitiun, but they need the stern 
prodding of necessity to make them climb 
out of a hired man’s job." 
“But can’t you force necessity upon 
them?" 
“How? I confess that I do not know. 
I have heard men and women tell great 
stories about, how they would force young 
men into ambition and labor, but iu every 
such case which I have investigated it 
was found that these folks never had any 
children of their own. There will always 
be boys who are natural workers, and 
who do not need urging. Then there are 
others of very much the same breeding 
who have to be driven or carried every 
step. The tremendous revolution iu in¬ 
dustry and human thought in the past 
JO years has worked out several great 
changes which have ended the life of the 
old-time boy and hired man." 
"What, are some of these changes?" 
“Education, lack of ability to acquire 
land, concentration of wealth in a few 
hands, and stamping out of individual 
intelligence and creative power by labor 
unions and similar organizations. While 
vast sums of money are being spent for 
education. 1 do not think average young 
people are as tvell educated today as they 
were in the simple, old-time schools. 
When I was a hired man land was plen¬ 
tiful and easily obtained. It is now 
mostly controlled by private interests. 
The inability of the hired man or would- 
be farmer to buy or control a piece of 
land has changed the character of thou¬ 
sands of our people. They are losing the 
ambition and good nature which charac¬ 
terized “Hie former generation.” 
“Wibat are you going to do about it?" 
“For m.v part I shall run my own farm 
not entirely for the dollars there may be 
in it. but for what we enu do to help 
equalize opportunity and make our people 
feel that there is a great, big troubled 
world on the other side of our fence. 
Our peanuts and c-otton and sweet pota¬ 
toes may help us to realize this. I think 
the big world problem is only a vast en¬ 
largement of what we are trving to work 
out on our own farm. Wealth and oppor¬ 
tunity have settled into a comparatively 
few hands. A few families have too large 
of the hired a share. As common man wakes up and 
d no idea it really thinks, he sees this injustice of 
ssion. I did distribution and lie knows that society 
aeration has must, lie reorganized on a fairer basis. 
* world since This will lie worked out in one of two 
us are taken ways. I think. Either the rich and pow- 
lence. Many erful will understand in. time, and volpn- 
better story taril.v agree to a fairer distribution, or 
there will be a form of revolution in the 
that story is efforts of the workers to force a redivis- 
ion The great hofic is that true education 
> tell it.” may keep ahead of prejudice and unrea- 
?r kept going sonable thinking. The most useful class 
will always be the small freeholders of 
•ked an hour laud, who must work hard for a living, 
and who have children to bring up. 
H. W. C. 
Bottoms always 
run true and level 
You know that it is easier to roll weight 
than to drag it. All weight of the John 
Deere No. 40 is rolled. The rear weight 
rolls “as slick as grease” on the greased 
bearing of the rolling landside—absolutely 
no dragging friction. 
You know that a plow pulls lighter 
when its bottoms run true and level all 
the time. Bottoms of the “40” always 
run true and level because the hitch is 
always automatically correct-^it adjusts 
itself up and down to the correct line of 
draft whenever depth of plowing is varied 
with the depth lever. 
Remember, the “40” is the only built- 
for-the-Fordson plow with that great 
draft-reducing combination of rolling 
landside and self-adjusting hitch. It’s a 
big advantage that goes with thorough 
work, guaranteed beams, simple positive 
power-lift and unusual ease of operation 
in making the “40” the plow the Fordson 
needs. 
Improves the 
work 
Fordson 
Owners: 
You want the beBt 
plow you can get for 
your tractor. Be sure 
to get acquainted 
with the ’40”. Watch 
it at work i n tho field. 
Compare tta work, its 
draft, itantrengthand 
its ease at operation 
with that of any other 
Fordson plow you 
have seen. Write 
today for full infor¬ 
mation concerning 
the “40”. Address 
John Deere, Moline, 
Illino s, and ask for 
Free Booklet NP-737. 
But, granting this to be true, what has 
it got to do with raising cotton at Hope 
Farm? We have several of these crops 
which our friend intimates show a lack 
«.f sense. Kudzu, cotton, peanuts, sweet 
potatoes aud Sudan grass. They require 
a little space and take a little time. 
Kudzu will. I believe, prove a great help 
In many of our Northern dairymen when 
we learn bow to handle it. I can, no 
doubt, buy cotton and peanuts and sweet 
potatoes cheaper than I can raise them. 
But I like to wntch them grow. It may 
not be very sensible, but I find it stimu¬ 
lating and interesting to see how these 
new plants take hold of the soil and try 
to utilize it. Take the peanut plant and 
watch its vines run out. and root, aud it 
would be a dull man who could not learn 
from it something new about the needs 
of an apple tree. I can accept the sug¬ 
gestion that I am lacking in sense with¬ 
out any resentment. Very likely it is 
triio: I surely could not convince our 
friend that I am sane so long as we con¬ 
tinue to try these crops which practical 
men say are impossible. I sometimes 
wonder how long this good world of ours 
would continue worth living in if there 
were no dreamers, or men who like to 
question nature or experiment. My own 
opinion is that many farmers are too 
practical for their own real advancement. 
1 think agriculture would be better off 
if more of our people could gain imagi¬ 
nation and form the habit of doing some 
things on the farm for other purpose® 
than the determination to make a dollar. 
So I will not argue or fight back over 
those “senseless” crops. The cotton is 
doing remarkably well. It was green and 
thrifty as any 1 have seen in the South, 
though, of course, much smaller for the 
season. The peanuts and the sweet po¬ 
tatoes look well, and it is better than a 
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