River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-31
Conditions of Success.
WHEN FARMING PAYS.

Money can be obtained on the farms
as elsewhere by good business men.
1t is idle bosh TO say, as men do say.
that little or no money can be made
in legitimate farming in this state;
that farmers as class are losing
ground. The first part of the state
ment is disapproved by the success of
hundreds of farmers in all our agri-
cultural counties, from Enos Eastman,
in Sheboygan, to A. o. Fox, in Dane;
from A. A. Arnold, in Trempealeau,
to Charles Miller. of Rock; from Aaron
Broughton. in Green, to Theodore
Louis, in Dunn; from j. NJ. Smith, in
Brown, to j. T. Van Matre. in Iowa;
from Charles Linse, in La Crosse. to
ii. S. Weeks, of Waukesha; from Aug.
Barkhausen, of OZaukee, to +. A.
Huebner, of Manitowoc: from q. p.
Goodrich, of jefferson, to ID. l.. Flack,
of walworth; and from examples in
every country neighborhood in Wis
consin, where men are becoming in
dependent from the profits of their
farms.
Peter Collier says:
IL is entirely within the bonds of
facts to assert that there are at least
ten per cent. of our farmers in what
ever branch of agricultural industry
they may be engaged, who are getting
double the return of the average of
others engaged i'll that branch-twice
the bushels per acre, twice the pounds
of butter per cow-and this, too, SIM
ply by improved methods and intelli-
gent application of the fundamental
principles of success which should
govern their practice.
As evidence of this | will cite the
instance of a dairy farm of l3S acres
in this state bought six years ago for
5lI, 500, which has since netted an
nually return of 10 per cent. on the
investment. The aggregate product
last year amounted to 81, 224.70.
have in mind three large herds of
dairy cattle. none of them other than
carefully selected grades, the average
butter product for these herds being
last year between 200 and $40 pounds,
more than double the general average.
have in mind large field of wheat
upon farm within sight of me as |
write-the famous Rose Hill farm of
Robert j. Swan, Esq, long president
of the board of control OF the New
York state agricultural experiment
station--and this field of wheat will
average fully 40 bushels to the acre,
more than three times the average of
the other wheat fields in this state,
and yet this very field produced but
six bushels of wheat TO the acre forty
years ago. But this result, SO full of
encouragement as evidence that our
farming lands are not exhausted of
their fertility after half century of
cropping, has been secured without
the use of any commercial fertilizers,
but it forcibly illustrates the benef-
cent results of draining, for upon this
farm of about $50 acres are rs miles
of tile drains.
PAY! viii farming payl" replied
the gentleman who grew this crop of
wheat TO my question. "Of course it
will pay, and never better than now
If only it is conducted as intelligently
as is the mercantile and manufactur-
ing business of the country"
BE sure and attend as many of the
Farmers Institutes as you can posi-
bly, reach. 1t will pay you. Get out
of the old deep ruts. Farming run in
an intelligent business way will pay
as well as any other business.