Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-17
AGRICULTURAL.
CO.OrEHATiON ~ TIM USE OF
IARM MACuINEItN.
when u l. More Profitable 10 Rent than
TO Own Expensive Tools.

u Is often porplcxing. IN these days
OF the machine working OF farms, 90
know just when II ls profitable 10 buy
new machines. and equally Hu Co know
ut what puipN 10 ~ profitable 60 stop
buying. Thu-r was wisdom ln the reply
u the French peasant who was luburl-
ously cutting his little plot Of grain
with a sickle Being told by traveller
that with "a reaper ho could do ten days
work ia one, the burullr philosopher
replied; "Oui Monsieur, but have not
ten days work to do"
10 IL often the case that one Or Tempt
ed to buy "a labor-Haylng device when
the amount OF work 10 be- done by %
would cost less. u done by hand, than
the Interest ON the cost OF the machine.
| That n tho great disadvantage 300 the
application OF machinery Co farm work
the machine Nv used few days ut the
most and for the remainder of the year
must be stored, It's cost representing
idle capital, while In other Industries
tho machinery a. used the year round
and the capital ~ never idlc. In this
respect small farms are at dlsul-
vantage In competition with large areas
conducted under one management
This disadvantage, however may be
met and overcome IN way by @ syH-
tenn Of cooperation between ucighburH.
but this, 90 be- successful, must be- cone
Quoted In systematic ana business
like manner. II n sometimes attempted
on "a plan OF Joint ownership OF the
machines, but this iH not always sntls-
factory IN It's working. There ~
pruNcrb 10 the effect that, what n
cycrybOdy's business n nobody'a busl-
ness" So u sometimes happens thtt
the machine which Il Is the business OF
all the owners TO care for does not nl-
ways have suitable care. A plan which
h usually found TO work much better
N FOR one 90 own the machine ana
either rent a.. BY the day or by the
acre. 20 his nclghbora, or do that par
ticular work Tor them az a specified
rate. This method has long been in use
as matter OF necessity In some things.
such as thrcshlng Tor Instance, for none
but a bonanza farmer would think Of
owning and storing a modern threshing
machine, but the system may b. profit
ably applied with smaller machines uH
| well, In dairy district, where the
average amount " straw grain docs not
usually exceed ten or fifteen ucrpH TO
the farm, it ~ much better Tor one
/ farmer Co purchase nrHt.uluFs reaper
and do the rcapiug Tor the neighbour
hood. making u good profit on It, than
II ~ for each 10 purchase "a machine
and have II In store 800 days Ia the
course Of "a year
In my own experience with from 90
TO 30 acres OF grain TO be drilled each
year l have found Il 10 my advantage
] 10 ANll u urn ny lllN NhIN OF one OF my
nelghbOrH, doing the work myself The
! price paid 10 the owner OF the arm. by
myself and others. was such that Dc
more than realized rs cost before 10 was
worn out. besides having the use Of Dc 20
! put IN his own grain. So In this IN
stance the renting system II profitable
| 90 all concerned. In carrying milk 10
the factory also, we have found the
system a great convenience. though In
some Instances the company" as those
who Join together 10 carry milk style
themselves, purchase and own "a wagon
suitable Tor the purpose, taking turn
ana turn about In carrying.
The system of cooperation might also
be probably applied, 10 such work %.
planting corn and digging potatoes. for
"a good modern machine Tor either of
those operations, though too expensive
for small farmer to AFFORD would
easily do the work for a whole neigh
borhu0d, where such work IL now most
~ done by hand; ana when corn cut
TING and shocking machines are per-
fectcd II VIII furnish another opplr-
tunliy for the application Of this lrlu-
Clpc
have mentioned. as they came 10
my mind, "a few things Ia illustration,
but the field for It's application In FARM
ing Is almost unlimited. ana | com
mend the topic 20 oranges and other
farmers organizations, IL IA "a suitable
| field for them 10 develop and put into
practical work, for II opens Il possl-
BILE door OF escape Tor the small farmer.
| being driven 20 the wall In his efforts
| 10 hold his own In these days OF mu-
| chlnory. Il, Benton In Practl-
| cal EurmUr