The Green Forest tribune., 1901-04-13
PROGRESSIVE FARMING.
X Few Experiences of a Farm.
 CT Who is Making Money.

CT Who is Making Money.
 That there is something more than even 8 good, substantial living on the farm in this country IS apparent to any one who will note what has been done by some of the farmers in the vicinity of Green Forest during the past few years.
 A few days ago THE TRIBUNE office was favored with a visit from Houston Orrell. Knowing that MT. Orrell is making life success out on the farm, we took pains to inquire into his method of doing business, thinking that we might be able to learn some thing that we could suggest beneficial to other farmers of the country, and we believe we were successful in gathering some good points from him.
 In the first place, Mir. Orrell is a man who employs business methods in everything. He takes an inventory of his holdings at the beginning of each season and closes his book at the end, to see just what kind of efforts have paid him the best.
 MT. Orrell's best income is from stock raising, poultry and pro- duce. In fact, he manages his affairs on the farm so that every thing contributes to the produce tion of these things. He keeps a number of fine COWS, with some coming in all along. When he finds that he has surplus he puts a milch COW on the market and always finds a ready sale. The surplus milk he feeds to his hogs, while the butter which he produc- es in abundance is the same as cash when brought to town. He also keeps a few stands of bees, which work out their own living and a neat profit each year when they do we'll.
 ; In the matter of cultivating his farm, MT. Orrell raises just what he expects to use in the way of corn and wheat and has the rest sown to grass, the surplus from which he is able to dispose of at good figures right in his barn yard. He also devotes consider able attention to fruit, which he never fails to find profitable. In- stead of wearing out his land, he handles it in way that the soil is strengthened from year to year and thus his farm becomes more valuable.
 MT. Orrell tells us that his last years earnings amounted to more than $500, clear of all expenses, yet he has perhaps worked no harder, so far as manual labor is concerned, than many farmers who could not figure anything above living for their work dur ing the same time.
 MT. Orrell does not belong to that class of farmers that will have to give back for a more pro- gressive class on account of the new conditions that have been brought about by the railroad. He is enabled to profit largely by the increased advantages thus afforded him. His farm is not for sale; he proposes to remain where he is and continue to lay tup little competency every year for the proverbial rainy day and live as well and more happily than the most full handed merchant in the country. All the credit for Mr. Orrell's success in farming is not due to himself alone. He is specially blessed with a wife who is quite as good manager as he is when it comes to business and the practice of economy. Mrs. Orrell is an exceptional lady and enjoys looking after every detail of the farm work as we'll as does her husband. However, she does not plough, cut sprouts and hoe corn as women once did in this country. Her good council is al- ways we'll timed and no little credit is due her for the good success that is made of life out on thn Orra1l omaotaad