Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-07-20

NQuT6ulC. 1at nave Nv IN S1IAOUOS VaAACe
made journeys through prospero ua
farming districts and recently made
~ Journey through southern Mime.
sofa and northeastern Iowa and
while there made close inquiry into
the conditions Of the farming com.
munit ties. That part OF the country
and other sectiO OF country ! have
visited have reduced farming to a
science, and to be a farmer, a sue
cessful farmer, is an evidence Of a
high order Of Intelligence. 70 farm
well requires brains. Time and
space win not permit going into
close detail and hardly consider it
necessary, for q few suggestions may
put intelligent farmers and people
interested on inquiry, and only such
can he benefited by inquiry. IS
& Most Of the no " prosperous farm
ing sections have in early days gone
through almost the same half-lived.
plodding sort OF way that is con-
siderably in evidence now in our
county. They planted and harvest
ed only small grains year after year,
and as the years passed the average
crops became less and less and the
value OF lands did not materially Inn
prove. The majority OF farms were
heavily incumbered with mortgages
and the little stock and personal
property was also mortgaged. The
conditions were SO burdensome that
there was q necessity for effort Of
extraordinary u character to bring
about . change for the better and
with that change q new life began
to dawn on the farmers. Here and
there among them could be found
farmers who seemed to overcome all
difficult tiles, and investig CATION showed
that these were not relying on small
grains to give them ali their neces-
saries. They were doing mixed farm
ing. It was evident that they pos
sessed more brains and as q sconse-
quence did not have to work as
hard and had all the advantages Of
success. The example Of these sue.
cessiul ones caused some Of the less
successful ones to do more thinking
and as q result the whole system OF
farming was changed and now In
these communities farming 10 reduced
toasystem that has made the farmers
independent, prosperous and happy.
Their sons and daughters graduate
from the higher institutions Of learn
ing OF our country and on the farm
you can find q tar higher average Of
intelligence than you can lind IN the
towns and villages. IN q general
way it may be said success in
farming depends on diversified
farming and the degree sof suc-
cess depends upon the. ability
or the Individual. All or nearly all
who pursue diversified farming are
successful. The percentage o. sue
cessful farmers ID proportion to the
whole number occupied is greater
than the precent aga OF successful
business mon Ia proportion to the
whole number occupied In the puf-
suit 81 any business. III other words,
farmers az q class are more prosper
Gus tnan people engaged 81 other
pursuits. The cause 81 this Ii that
farming intelli gently: carried on has
Is legimate and natural result. 1t. IL
the arrangement 81 cond itions so as
TO have nature do the work, and he
who can ntelligently arrange con-
5ditions e onsistent with nature, bar
ring accident, has a certainty. Sue
scess under such circu mstances Ii tile
rule and failure Il the except ion. ia
sall the older farming districts they
have passed from the style 81 farm
ing we witness ii Morrison county,
no ST diYersifled farming and the
farmers live III flne houses, have good
barns for their stock ard have all
odersn convene ces. many u them
even having teiepho service. and
most 81 them have paid on the
mortgages contra ted while farming
under the poorer System, and nine.
tenths 81 them have rood bank
accounts. Naturally the farms
from which such condi tions grow
are valuable. .5s
Consid ering the mort eastern part
Iof Iowa and sou theaste Minnesota
as an example. the market advan-
tages are no better az q rule than ii
Morrison county excepting perhaps
Tor beef, cattle, hoSs and sheep.