1904 
339 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE QUESTION OF HELP. 
As the question of procuring help has 
become of so much importance to all 
farmers, my experience in this problem 
may not be without interest. It is evi¬ 
dent that there are not enough available 
men in the country districts to go 
around among the farmers needing 
them. The only alternatives seem to be 
to do without them, resulting in decreas¬ 
ed production and harder work for the 
farmer; get them from the cities, which 
are harboring great numbers; or else 
bring them from Europe. To sound the 
sentiment of the unemployed in the 
cities, and to fill my need fp~ laborers 
I put a farm-help want advertisement in 
one Philadelphia and two New York 
City dailies. I received in reply answers 
from about 200 married and single men 
from all parts of the Middle Atlantic 
States, a few from New England and 
Canada, and one from England. These 
men were nearly all living in cities, 
chiefly in New York and Philadelphia, 
and a very large majority had no ex¬ 
perience in farm work. They had all 
kinds of jobs, being factory hands and 
motormen, clerks and stenographers, al¬ 
though most of them had been doing 
some kind of manual work, or gave no 
account of their employment. Some 
wanted to leave the city on account of 
their health, and others wished to take 
up country life for its own sake. After 
terms are mentioned, such as inexperi¬ 
enced help can earn in the country, and 
references are followed up, such a num¬ 
ber of indiscriminate applicants will sift 
out to a few available ones, but prob¬ 
ably enough for the wants of one farm¬ 
er. When we think that the same adver¬ 
tisement put in a week later might bring 
answers from as many more people from 
whom to select a few desirable hands, 
the possibilities of this method, al¬ 
though limited, are seen. At least there 
appear to be a large number of men in 
the cities who want to get into the coun¬ 
try to work, but who have no experi¬ 
ence, nor opportunity to learn. It would 
be well if more farmers had such as 
these and would teach them. 
As to foreign immigrants coming on 
to our farms, I do not think as much is 
done in this direction as might be. if 
farmers could come together in an or¬ 
ganized effort to further their larger 
common interests they might find it 
feasible to send agents to drum up a 
good class of immigrants in northern 
Europe, who would certainly bring a 
better class than the agents of the 
steamship companies who care only for 
the fare across. Or an agent, might be 
stationed in New York City to turn on 
to our farms the better class of a part 
of the present immigration, many of 
whom have come from farms in their 
own countries and would probably pre¬ 
fer to work in the country here, but 
having landed in the city, know of no 
way to get a good job out of it. 
HIRAM HAINES. 
A FERTILE ACRE. 
A California reader sends a note from 
the San Francisco Call in which the won¬ 
derful performance of Samuel C. Cleek 
is detailed: 
“Mr. Cleek died a short time ago of old 
age, and his fertile acre is now run by 
his wife, who survives him. This farm 
is a most remarkable example of what 
can be accomplished through irrigation 
and intensive cultivation of the soil. Mr. 
Wright took an inventory of what it con¬ 
tained. Almost every .foot of the acre 
farm is utilized. Here is what is on the 
farm at the present, time: Cottage and 
porches, 30 by 30 reet; barn and corral 
space, including chicken coops, etc., 76 by 
75 feet; two windmill towers, 16 by 16 feet 
each; garden, 46 by 94 feet; blackberry 
patch, 16 by 90 feet; strawberries, 65 by 90 
feet; Citrus nursery, 90 by 98 feet, in 
which there are 400 budded orange trees; 
a row of dewberries along the fence, 100 
by 2 feet; four apricot trees, two oak 
trees, three peach trees, six flg trees; 10 
locust trees; seven Eucalyptus trees, one 
paradise tree, four bearing bread-fruit 
trees, 30 rose bushes, 20 geraniums, 12 
lemon trees seven years old, a lime tree 
from which was sold last year 160 dozen 
limes, eight bearing orange trees, five 
pomegranate trees, six beds of violets six 
by two feet each, one patch of bamboo, 
one bed of calla lilies, four prune trees, 
six cypress trees, 14 stands of bees, four 
huge grapevines, one bed of sage, one seed 
bed, besides honeysuckles and many rare 
shrubs. In 1877 Mr. Cleek purchased his 
acre of land in the corner of a dusty, 
glaring field of stubble. It was a big 
wheat field, from which the crop had been 
just cut. It was remote from any dwell¬ 
ings and was about as barren and unin¬ 
viting a place upon which to start a home 
as can be imagined. There was no run¬ 
ning water on the place and from 'Ma> 
until November rain does not usually fall, 
although in the Winter time, the rains are 
generous. Mr. Cleek had bpt a few dol¬ 
lars and the home he buili was, Mrs. 
Cleek says, “only a very small room.’’ 
He dug a deen well and, being handy with 
carpenter’s tools, erected a windmill, 
which operated a homemade pump. Rob¬ 
inson Crusoe did not do more on his desert 
isle than did Samuel Cleek on his dusty 
acre of stubbie. At the time of Mr. Cleek’s 
death he left almost $4,000. Mr. Cleek was 
ill at times and then, too, he was always 
anxious to reinvest the profits of his 
unique acre.’’ , 
We seldom fear a 
danger that we cannot 
see. The danger of 
being run-down by a 
horse is a very real 
one to everybody, the 
danger of being mur¬ 
dered by a microbe 
does not trouble us. 
And yet the minute mi¬ 
crobe is more dangerous 
than the wildest horse. 
The only people who can 
afford not to fear the mi¬ 
crobes of disease are those 
who keep their blood pure 
and rich. These are prac¬ 
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attacks of most microbes. 
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