The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-06-15
SOUTHERN FARM GAZETTE: SturkviIlc, Miss. -
SYSTEM IN FAR MING,
Some Splendid Suggestions as to Farm
Bookkeeping and the Benefits
to be0erived Therefrom.

rev farmers realize the in
portance of keeping DO, lis in
farming. 1t is JUS, as necessary
for the farmer to have sys;
matte method of keeping his ac-
counts 2S it is Tor the mere hant.
A man need not be fine scholar
to keep correct record OF his
business. Any man who can
read and write and has little
knowledge of figures can keep
his own books. 1t takes but lit
tie time each day to k,ep record
of the days doings on the farm.
My method is to buy a furnished
blank book, rule it properly and
Keep ON separate pages under
their proper headings, a weather
record. days doings, cash paid
out and received, breeding re.
cord of cattle, horses and hogs,
credit page of all items bought
and sold on time, monthly state
ments, yearly statement. Attce
end OF the year l can tell what
I've male. (if anything above
expenses, just what my business
transactions were each dav. lust
what kind OF work ! was doing
each day, just What.kind of wealth
err twas. H'snot only interesting
but proiita bic TO look over your
books at the close of the wear.
1t farmers would do this they
would save many dollars during
the year, and if Il ey would teach
their boys ,and girls, TOO, for
that natter, a systematic wav to
Keep record of their Guinness
transactions they would grow
up to he more intelligent and sue
cesStul in any avocation they
might follow in after life. When
VIZ learn to be more systematic
and keep a correct record Of all
our business transactions we are
sure to learn to be more SvSte-
matte about farming. more in
dustrious and economical. We
would learn to grow the kind of
crops best adapte to our soil.
We would leard that 1t does not
pay to buy meat, corn, molasses,
lard. ilour and many other things
with cheap cotton. We would
learn the cost to produce each
article. 1t is mournful fact
that more than one-thlrd of all
Miss, iarmers buy, with cheap
cotton, more or less of the very
products the ought to raise for
the market. This fall many
farmers will buy pork a, &c. with
cotton PREGNANCY at &c. All
this is caused by lack of educa-
ton IN Ines that pertain to farm
ing and no farmer will be sue
cesstul who follows the all cotton
system. buy other farm products
that he ; bound to have. Such
farmers rs a rule buy on credit.
Not OH out of a dozen knows
what his Indebtedness is or how
much he owes the merchant;can't
tell how much he pays for any
article he buys; don't even ask
the merchrnt the price, buys
more than $ necessary, thinks
at the end # the year that his
accounts aoout half as large a it
Is and Is a tonished at the size
OF his bill. If he had kept
an account he would know, and
put acheck 5 me times to needless
expenses, an above all he would
learn to let So much cotton alone
and plant larger acreage of corn
and hogs.
| have written this short arti-
Gle because ! have been asked
to come again. and hoping that it
might induce farmers to change
many methods of farming. diver.
SHY and bring about better terms.
Until we learn these these things
we as a class will never prosper.
TRY it. 1t has paid me and
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