The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
SUCCESS IN FARMING.
1t Depends Largely Upon the Proper Ar
rangement of Operations.


1t Depends Largely Upon the Proper Ar
rangement of Operations.
Prosperity, as rule, is dependent
on the man thoroughness in business
application. He must be able to fore
cast the demands of his markets, and
to meet these demands with products
which fully answer all requirements.
He must produce these crops in the
smallest possible area on which they
can be grown, in order to lessen
cost and labor of production and
amount of capital invested. The great
trouble with most of farmers is that
they spread their work over too large
an area. Every additional acre is so
much more capital invested in the pro-
duction of crop which might have
been grown on less land. This increase
of acreage compels superficial cultiva-
ton, meager fertilizing and greater
risks. 1t costs less to harvest fifty
bushels of oats, or three tons of hay,
from one acre than from three. It
costs less to make 250 pounds of butter
from IL COW III IL SliSlc ScHSOu llitll
from two cows. Working n small farm
does not mean profit, however, but
raising big crops on small farm means
net cash.
II is time to remember that the more
thorough and skillfrl culture is usually
the cheaper. 1t is time to remember,
too, that the farmer who has to en-
ploy hands all the year must so diver
sify his farming that he will have pro-
ductive work at all times of the year.
He wastes Il part Of his productive
force if he provides but for salable
products requiring culture only in sum-
mer. He must become Il manufacturer
as well as a producer, and feed out his
summer crops-at least the majority
Of them--in the winter in such way
as to get better prices for them, retain
the manurial elements on the farm for
future crops, and give profitable en-
ployment to the hired man or men.
Consumers pay higher prices for fresh
butter and eggs in winter than in sum-
mer. The farmer should so arrange
his dairying operations that his COWS
shall give milk from September to
June, and go dry during the harvest
season. He can thus use his hired help
to the best advantage and at the same
time make his dairy more remuner-
ative. Grain does not bring very re-
munerative prices nowadays, and it was
proved by Il trial at New England
experiment station that by raising corn
for cnsilage and buying feeding grains
and cotton-seed meal beef can be made
in New England to-day and sold in her
markets at lower prices than Western
beef costs delivered there, and still
leave handsome profit to the
feeder. The agriculture OF this
country has spread over too many
acres. What is needed now is more
intelligent application Of science and
work on each acre. Thepast year was |
poor one for wheat in England, and |
statisticians there report that the wheat |
crop only averaged twenty. uight |
bushels per acre. This is over one
hundred per cent. more than the aver
age per acre in this country. In other
words farmers here work Il good deal
more than twice the land for the same |
returns.
Still more profitable is the catering
to the fast-increasing demand for what
were once considered luyuries. Fruits
u little out of season; vegetables Just
gathered and put into market in Il few
hours thereafter, two or three weeks
before the time of their usual appear
ance; early lambs. well lattened; lat
and quickly grown broilers or tur-
keys; any thing extra nice and attract
i've in the way of food products are al
ways sure TO bring high prices for
them; competition is always limited,
and the increase for price is proper
tionately far above the cost. The |
money-maISing farmer is the one who
sees all these things and pract ccs tAcm.
He is not the one who is dawdling |
about the lobbies of legislatures. to Try
and secure what he fondly hopes is leg
islation that will abate the natural or
competitive evils Of his business, uud
that win make the country prosperous
by main strength, as 1t were. Lcgisa-
tion can correct some evils; good judg-
ment and good farm ng can correct
many more. When weather and con
Sumptiyo demands are all right. nj
most any farmer can make something's
when these factors are unprOpitiOW,
every poor farmer Is compelled 10 Gs-
sert that "furming don't pay" for il il
true in his case. Buffalo Express.