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Mak ng The Farm Pay.
Never before were such efforts
made us are being put forth now
to get the farmers of the country
to realize that farming is a busi
ness, ns well as a science and a
profession—just as much of a busi
ness as merchandizing, manufac
turing or buying and selling cat
tle.
The failure of the farmer to re
gard hie occupation in the light
of a business, subjects him to a
heavy toll from those with whom
he deals and who are forced bv
competition to operate under some
forms of business system.
The farmer deals with the fact
or on a business basis, with the
guano company, the merchant,
the bank in the same way. But
he—we mean the average—deals
with himself, his land and his
help, as if successful farming, or
rather making a living by tilling
the soil, requires nothing more
than a steady application to work,
with no thought of business de
tails, excepting those forced upon
him.
He carries most of his business
‘•in his head”, keeps few books
and no accurate records. If he
undertakes to find if the cultiva
tion of a particular tract of land
paid, or how much he lost on an
other tract, he is forced to esti
mate from treacherous memory.
Many of them can’t “figure” at
the end of the year within fifty per
cent of their total net earnings or
gross losses.
That helter-skelter methods of
keeping account are exceedingly
unprofitable, though accompanied
by the best kind of agricultural
talent, has been demonstrated
time and again. There are farm
ers who are not only able to strike
clear balance sheets with reference
to their entire year’s business, but
for each tenant, and each field.
These farmers rarely loose money,
because each year they are able to
size up in dollars and cents the
mistakes and strikes of the year
The business of one of them —a
college graduate—is told in the
Atlanta Georgian, aB follows:
Mr. Scott, after leaving the
University of Georgia, settled on a
faim near Barnesvilie. During
the past year, with his intensive
methods of cultivation he made a
profit of $5,000 on acres of
land. On 07 *»cres he produced 58
bales of cotton, From 55 acres he
harvested 8,500 bushels of oats;
from 27 acres 750 bushels of corn
and 20 tons of stover. Hesecur-j
ed a profit of $552 from peas and |
hav gathered from the lands that
had been in grain, and likewise a
profit of $585 from hogs and other
farm products
In the above, case Mr. Scott
farms intensively as well as man
ageably. He gets the very best
out of Ins land, and at the same
time so preserves the soil that the
land increases in productivity and
and grows in value. The soil-mine
becomes richer through operation.
Such examples point the way to
the solution of ths labor problem,
which is becoming of tremendous
importance in the South. Negroes
are leaving the soil, harkening
to the call of the cities and the
better and steadier wage great in
dustrial development makes for
the m.
Careless farming hastens the dav
when the cotton growing industry
will have to look to Europe or Asia
for help.
Thus the Nashville Tennesseean
says:
One or two things will have to
be done—white labor will have to
be resorted to ami brought in from
Other sections, or else the large
farms will have to be divided into
smaller bodies of land for intensi
fied and diversified farming If, as
is claimed, the average farmer is j
left without ample labor to eulti- j
vate his farm and much of his land .
remains idle, then, in order that
the lands nmv lie made to produce j
and pay the possessor on his invest
ment they will have to be cut up
int<' small farms and sold to those
who will engage in such cultiva
tion that w ill pay.
Many owners of large and fer
tile farm- I nve struggled thr<ni: h
a life of toil and drudgery, harass
ed with <l. b* and without the hope j
of relief—all because they have
possessed too much land to make
it pay. These are in a measure
failures, and are obj ct. lessons
wliicn weigh heavily on the side
contending for smaller farms. The
farmer who has more land than he
can properly fence and thoroughly
cultivate is generally known as a
slip-shod farmer, though he may
be industrious and may strive to
make every edge cut.
Under the changed conditions
brought, about by the scarcity of
labor scientific methods of agri
culture should be adopted. Where!
the soil is deficient in productive
quality it should be supplied,
which can be done at comparative
ly small cost, a cost, much less
than the profit that will result In
farming, as in every other pur
suit the main thing is to produce
the best and greatestqimiity with
the least labor ai:d smallest coßt.
—Avgusta Chronicle.
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