The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-05-20
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lions to be found in the reading of
most of the books mentioned. In
them will be found the results of
years of research and experiment,
and if he will make use of the knowl-
edge he gains in their reading it will
set him in the forefront, ready
equipped TO do battle in his chosen
business and TO gain a signal victory.
Accompanying this reading there
must be keen observation and the
desire TO verify the statements of
the authors by actual trials under
his own eye.
The young farmer should deter
mine TO be the very best farmer, and
then he should use every honest en-
deavor 90 attain that mark. Such a
discrimination is inconsistent with
speculation and with going into ex-
tremes in anything. Own about the
same amount of stock; plant about
the same acreage of corn and oats,
the same amount in pasture, in
meadow, in fruit, in garden arrange
for the rotation of crops and con-
serve the fertility of the soil by SOW
ing clover, by carefully preserving
and spreading all manure, by keep
ing as much stock as will consume
all the "roughage" grown and will
make return TO the land through
manure.
/ should have him start with
omy in mind. Buy those things
necessary to do the WOrk. DO not
IN IN debt. Pay as yOu go. Notes
are easy 80 sign but hard TO pay.
And there is no independence so en-
joyable az that which comes from
"Owe no man anything but the love
you owe a fellow-being." l should
want him TO keep right on with the
special branch he ohooses-not
changing from one kind TO another,
like a farmer 1 knew, who, seeing
his neighbor have a fine crop of
oats once, planted nearly all his farm
TO oats the following year. Oats
were poor and corn was better. Then
he tired of oats and planted nearly
all corn and corn was not so profit
able as hogs, and so he turned to
hogs for profit, and when he was
we'll stocked the hogs nearly all died
of cholera. The neighbor who had
followed the plan of having about
the same amount of each product
each year had done very we'll, for
the reason that, having a variety of
products, some one or more of them
were of the profitable kind.
Our ideal young farmer must be a
man Of courage. Any disappoint
ment, or any failure TO accomplish
the end he desires, should be the
means of giving him a knowledge of
things TO avoid and of things TO cul-
tivate with greater a.
BUSINESS METHODS APPLIED TO FARM
ING.
He should, moreover, be a man of
method. Every hour of every day
should count for something. The
movements of the body in doing
work are entirely under the direction
and control of the brain. The knOwl-
edge stored in the brain, therefore,
should be of such d nature as shall
seek to economic the strength of
the body, bringing into the best use
those parts of the body needed TO do
the work with the least waste. Many
farmers are looked upon as great
workers because they seem TO be
always in a hurry. They rush here
and there, or pick up this article and
drop that, and their useless move
ments are greatly in excess of the
useful.
l call to mind a good natured,
strong, German farmer who was one
of these hard workers. He was
always up early in the morning. He
would hurry into the field to plow-
only TO find that he had left the
whiffle trees at the house, having
used them on the wagon the evening
previous He could pitch more
bundles of oats upon a wagon in the
field than could most men, but would
do it such a manner that the wagon
rarely reached the stack or thresher
without a ~reloadiDg. He was the
same with all work on the farm. He
had been twelve years a renter and
was likely TO be a renter for twelve
years more.
By the proper oare and use of the