Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-24
SMALL. CAPITAL.
What n Michigan Stoc<man Did
With Limited Resources.

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With Limited Resources.
After all the talk about the latest
method of farming and the necessity Of
keeping up to date there are many
young farmers who would like to do
all this, but they lack the necessary
capital to begin with. says d writer in
Michigan Farmer. | have been partic-
ularly struck with this in hog raising.
When a young man starts in, he has
only q small amount of capital. and he
has to struggle along the best he can.
It is absurd to tell him that he should
adopt all the latest improvements and
breeds and conduct a first class farm
for raising hogs. He does not have the
capital to begin with, and lie must do
things that he knows are not the most
approved.
The way that some Of these young
farmers struggle along and, gradually
build up a good business and add to
their incomes and capital would make
mighty interesting reading for the
more slothful If it could be written out.
Think Of starting out with half a dozen
pigs, a few acres and q mortgaged
home and within ten years the hap
Ply possessor Of 100 acres, 200 head of
hogs and cattle and q pleasant home
with no debt on it! That Is what one
young nan accomplished in this state,
and today he says that he made his
success in hogs. He realized that he
had to economic in every way posi-
BILE, and, while reading all that was
printed about high grade stock and.
scientific methods Of feeding, he knew
that he could not go and initiate it.
He did not have the money to buy the
stock with Or to get the feed. But he
had good health, a few hogs and a
chance. So he proceeded to raise
grass, corn, milk and hogs. From
these four products of the farm he
made a living and saved up something
each year except the first. That was
the hardest time Of all, because the
land was run down and poor and the
grass did not grow we'll. He seeded it
over the next year, raised more clover
and timothy than had ever been raised
tuGIe UelOIe, peEullIteu Iue hogs 10
feed on it only to q limited extent,
fearing lest they would destroy the
young grass roots. In two seasons he
had converted the poor grass pastures
into good grass fields where his hogs
could feed.
After getting the grass field into
fine condition he secured some adjacent
land on lease for corn. He plowed and
fortified this until he had increased
his debt, and then he raised such a
crop Of corn that he felt justified in in.
~creasing the number of his hogs. With
grass and corn aourishing he was pre-
pared to add cows to his stock, and
with good skimmilk to wean the young
pigs he soon found no difficulty in In.
~creasing his herd. He did all the work
himself and never thought Of hiring a
man even in the busiest season until
the fourth year Of his farming. Then
he had so far succeeded and demon.
strated to himself that he was on the
right track that he hired a man during
the rush season. Two years later he
married, and e since he has steadily
added year by year to his capital and
income. His theory Of success is has.
ed upon hard and Intelligent work APP
piled to the raising Of grass, corn, milk
and hogs.