The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-12-19
THOUGHTFUL FARMING BRINGS
ITS REWARD.


plain to go many OF our readers thatan
article devoted especially to calling at
tention to the facts would be unneces-
sary. But it is urged that some read.
ers who would not have time to carry
out the idea of a CO operative effort in
dairying or cotton manufacturing
might catch up and utilize the prin
ciple in something else if it were
brought out plainly in concrete form
We start with the fundamental
basis: that all raw materials are worth
and command the lowest price. The
price advances as the preparation Rp
proaches completion in flashed pro-
ducts.
The reason dairy hus bandry h8a been
go profitable in soma States. and may
oe so here, Is that the finished products
turned out on q dairy farm represent
"a material handled over aud N &rked
up By homo ef)rts ia5o ma5erial to be
returned 20 aad enrich the land and
the LABOR expended in completing the
product has either added value by
turning the p-odu35 into a less perish
able form than the milk has at first Or
We may call i5 a species OF msnufac
ture by which the raw materials, crops
Of the farm, have been turned into
finished products, butter aud cheese,
milk or cream, according to the loca'
ton Of the farm AMI the demand which
it hads nearest az hand or u )st profit
abba.
Coupled with this branch OF dairy
husbandry is the produce ion of meat.
Here, as elsewhere, the highes5 quality
pays the best. Veal and pork have
the least waste fer consumers, are
more Of a delicacy and command
highest PRICES when nice. 10 this line
the more complete th9 preparation the
greater the return, as sea the turning
Of round hogs into hams and shoulders,
breakfast strips Of bacon and the trim
mings into sausages.
This can all be done on the farm and
a regular business trade can be built
up by business methods Just as any
other business is made.
It is not necessary to leave the farm
or go to town to do business that will
be profitable, and it is Just as legitimate
to do these things as a part Of farming
as to do them under the guise of any
other calling, for they do belong to
the farm as Fl lished products.
Whoever takes these up aud uses his
intellect in advanced work adds to his
opportunities so much as to raise him
self out of competition with the mere
'hewers OF wood and drawera of
water" If on q farm or measuring pro
duce for others in other lines. They
can only expend the q tal6Gt-5rawn
which is used in producing the raw
product aud must necessarily receive
for it the very smallest compensation.
Raising cotton or corn or wheat for
sale partakes OF this line. Hauling
and selling wood and logs is b It another
form. Turning the c1rn aud forage
into milk, butter, cheese, pork, veal
and making the meat products up into
choice non perishable Or longer keep
ing forms as above enumerated, have
made some farms and farmers famous
and will bring prosperity to many
more.
You, dear reader, may realize more
from this line of eff Jr6 than you have
' ct dreamed.
The man who m2nures the tagging
soil and cultivates with greater care
to raise cotton may by his art surpass
his less intelligent n9ighbors 10 yield, |
and by careful picking out ia good
weather secure a slight rise in price for
the larger product. This is we'll so far
as it goes, but, il this man has superior
intelligence, will he stop here il ne
that by combinations which he
can make among these neighbors he !
c IN ecure pay for his Efforts and
double the prices received by eli who
join him7 This is possible and he will
De throwing away the opportunity
given by his intelligence to neglect it.
Take another line. The forests of
pine and hard wood of which nearly
every large farm bears it's proportion,
are being cut off and sold. The sale is
Of stumpage or the owner.
usually a farmer, hauls the logs and
sells them as logs. They pass out OF
first owners hands at only a nominal
price because raw material and of no
particular value in their I'm wieldv
forms. Sawn up into usab,e forms for
which there are demands, the values
increase many fold. Farmers can put
saw mills. planners and F1~1rnjt1re factor.