Secretary Rusk Tells What The Ideal American Farmer Will Do

"The ideal American farmer," said üecretary ïïusk, "is a man of brains. Hiis 'hope of success will be in infcelligence. The sharp competitions beween sections and countries which will be induced by increased facilities transporta tion will stir the agriculturtet up to his best efforte. His chances for fortune making will be fïreat, but lie will have to be prepar■d 1o ii.ühr the battle of competition. He must be snfficiently well educated in science as far as it is applicable to tiiiiiculture, ;md he raust be intellifrent enough to study Iiis surroundings and to apply his knowledge to the conditions about him. The farmer of the future will be a business tn.au, able not only to compel Iiis Kil to do its best in the matter of production, but to tstudy the markets and 'know wliat will sell the best and wbat will oonunand the highest price. This farmer will keep his accounts like any other business man. As to the question of his education, when you consider that he must liave a knowledge of all the principies of animal and plant life; that he must unHerstand the constituent elements of soils and fertilizers, and that he must have somc knovledge of nieterology, chemistry and the other sciences closely connected with erop raising, you will sec that the ideal farmer of the future will have to be Hot only a brainy but a Avell educated man." , - A posthumous story by Wolcott Balestier, "Captain, my captain 1" wil bc printed complete in The Century íor May. It is said to be the last short Btory lo appear from the pen of this feifted and fatcd writer.