The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-22

Many of the attempts to farm on a
wholesale scale have proven failures, part
ly because few men have the enormous
executive ability to manage a very big
business successfully, and partly also
because while temporary success ts posi-
BILE, the wholesale farming involved a
gradual diminution of soil fertility that
in the end made further soil cultivation
impossible, says the American Cultivator.
1t is reasonably certain that these Difficult
ties will never be overcome. The farm
ing of the future. as of the past, will
be conducted by large number of indi-
viduals, each working a few acres and
assisted by comparatively few employees.
This enables, or rather compels the farm
er 10 keep the soil in good condition and
TO cultivate IL thoroughly, so that the few
acres may support his family and pay the
hired help.
Yet even i'm the failure Of those trying to
farm on a large scale a shrewd observer
can sec that this plan Of employing a
large capital gave these bonanza farmers
q great advantage, by enabling them to
do cheaply what cost the small farmer
& much more, or what he was perhaps en-
tifGly unable TO do. We're II not for the OBJ
Jections first mentioned there is no rea-
son why the greatest Successes I'm farm
ing, as In other kinds of business, might
not come from the combination of great
executive ability with large means In the
cultivation of extensive areas So long
as the soil remains fertile these bonanza
farmers are more successful in propor-
ton to the amount of capital used in
cultiVatlng them. Money earns money in
all other kinds Of business. Why should
II not do so in farming? Expensive ma
chinery, the best possible farm stock and
money to buy at wholesale and at the
lowest rates. all that is needed for farm
supplies are unquestionedI advantages
which the farmer who has abundant capt
tai can enjoy but which are practically
i'm DOqci Dln IN a ia ot,fV
a few acres. Even If he had the money to
buy them, he could not find enough use
on a small farm to make them pay
Yet there is way TO give this advant-
age to the small farmers. If they Will
learn to cooperate in the purchase and
use of farm machinery and improved stock
six or eight farmers living near each
other may get the full benefit from the
best that is to be had by the wealthest
bonanza farmer who cultivates two or
three thousand acres This method is
already in operation I'm some neighbor-
hoods as regards expensive machinery
The cost of steam power thresh-
makes it generally impossible for small
farmers to buy them for their own use
Neither can man with a farm of his
own to care for take the time to leave
IT, to do such jobs for his neighbors. II IS
not every farmer who understands ma
chinery well enough to keep II I'm good
condition while in use If the Improved
implements are to do good work through
the season they must be in charge AZ
some one who thoroughly understands
their management. This is generally done
when the steam-threshing machine docs
the work of many farmers, and cheaDer
than they could do II If the machine were
owned in common and worked by whoever
of its owners wished to use it.
There ought TO be some such plan in
using reaping and moving machines
They are not so expensive as they were
a few years ago, but the wear and tear
of such implements in hands of men who
do not know how to use them makes
them very expensive. II they were owned
by some one who could give HIS entire
time to the management of farm machin-
cry they would do better work and last
much longer than they do as managed
now.
There is room in every netghborhood
for some one with fair ability as a me-
chanic to make a good living by p1lr-
chasing the more expensive farm innIe-
ments, and taking the work by contract
or at a specified price which shall he
profitable for both parties. There will be
very little time during the working sea
son that a man engaged in this business
would not find employment. He will make
more money than a farmer relying on his
crops, and his investment in machinery
will not be so large as the cost of a
farm and the necessary stock and tools
to run 81.
The Improvement of farm stock by the
introduction of improved breeds ought to