Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-08-09

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mate millions to the end Of time. To-
morrow we go to Paris.
W. q. NEVILLE.
FARMING IN BIG FIGURES.
Agriculture 10 Now an Exact 6eisnos
In Nebraska.
| A farm which contains 1913 dwelling
houses and population Of 1,700, which
feeds 1000 cattle and $4,000 sheep in 9
winter. A farm which raises 3,411
acres Of corn, 1,120 Of beets, s5s OF
sorghum, 302 Of wheat, 372 Of barley
peas, alfalfa, oats and millet, besides
$500 acres Of grass land; which haa
put $1.125,000 into buildings, and has
an annual payroll of $121,sss.
These figures from the Standard Cat
tie company Of Ames, Neb., illustrate
some Of the sights that bewilder the
eastern traveller. This farm is good
example Of the "resurrectionist" ranch
in Nebraska. Much Of the land Of that
great agricultural state, honesteaded
after the war by men with little cap
ital except their two hands, is being
gathered now into vast holdings con-
Quoted by the most scientific methods
both In farming and business.
The eastern traveller will see many
new and interesting things on one Of
these big corporation ranches. He will
see all the brains and progressive meth
DDS used by the great captains of In
dustry here applied to the science OF
farming. He will find the manager
working hand in hand with the govern
ment agricultural stations, experiment
ing constantly to get the greatest re-
turns out of the earth with the small
est outlay on 1t.
Scores Of different foods are tried fo1
the winter feeding Of cattle, and exact
results chronicled. The cost Of every
animal on the great place Is known to
penny, from its birth to the day II
leaves the ranch. Fertilizing Is reduc-
ed to a science. The composition OF
different soils, the ingredients required
to make them productive, are known az
exactly as the different rock forma-
tions in a mining country. A class Of
agricultural experts has grown up, like
mining experts.
There are men who make business
Of taking up wornout, run down un-
productive farms bringing them UP
to sa dividend paying basis by means
Of scientific farming, and selling them
at large profit. All such men, who
are reorganizing and revolutionizinG
the agricultural industry Of Nebraska
the crisp western humor dubs "resur-
rectionists.' A noted "resurrectionist'
is George. Payne, who after years Of
experimenting, has recently evolved
alfalfa meal" one Of the most valuable
discoveries ever made for the fattenine
of stock. Throughout Nebraska he II
known as Alfalfa" Payne.
Most revolutionizing Of all vegetables
ever put into American soil has been
the sugar beet. 1t has social and In
dustrial Importance hardly to be reck-
oned by one who has not made its ac-
quaintance, because Of It's insistent de-
mand for the settlement Of families up
on the land. The beet sugar factory
must have a regular and permanent
source Of supply. This is only to be
secured by putting upon the land per-
manent residents poor men with fam
lilies, who are willing to make beet
raising business. It is business In
which the family man Is at an advan-
tage, because the labor Of children is
profitable in the beet field, nor Is 1t In
furious to the child's health, like labor
in the Industrial world.
In response to this powerful demand
for the planting of families on the soil
the corporations which own the great
sugar beet ranches and factories have
exerted themselves to the utmost to Sc
sure steady, bona fide settlers. They
have had to give them advantageous
leases with possibilities Of final own
ership, and a steady market for their
products. In addition, sugar beet
ranch is usually great stock farm as
well, cattle or sheep being fattened
from the residuum Of pulp from the
sugar factory.
That is how the villages have grown
up on the corporation ranches. Some
of them have two schoolhouses filled
with the children Of employees and ten
ants alone. Four or five others near
tn. Anch will receive scattering dele
cations from the youngsters living on
the edge Of the big farm.
If the manager has wife and chill
dren, they are probably all in the cor
poration, and discuss the ever exciting
subject of dividends as eagerly and
continuously as the men. The wife Will
have ten or twelve acres Of strawber-
ries and raspberries in her kitchen gar
den, and make $500 an acre from her
Strawberries the second season, and as
much from her raspberries the third
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part of her berry patch of her hands,
and send their own fruit to market.
Scientific farming demands just as
much knowledge of marketing as OF
farming. It is not trade, but bus
mess.
| That same eastern visitor will find
the corporation ranchman living In a
handsome modern dwelling, through
whose pipes the ubiquitous Nebraska
windmill pumps constant water sup
ply; in whose cellar its own gas ma
chine furnishes lighting facilities. He
Will find up to date traps and good
horses in the stable, perhaps hand
some brake. But, If he Is lucky, ne
will have a chance to ride Off on
horseback with the manager and his
family to the spring windup, where ne
can see the whole process Of rounding
up and branding cattle, or watch the