The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-19

we are reallZlng tnat 80 mucu can Dc
accomplished by observing labor-ssv-
ing, therefore time-saving, methods.
Perhaps the farmers have been among
the most recent to realize it, as is
indicated by the actual revolution in
agriculture in America which is taking
place.
The work Of the farmer has been
called an industry, but with the man
Of to-day, who depends on the soil for
livelihood, it is also business to
become more productive to the eytent
that each phase of it is carried out
on progressive and systematic lines,
and that is why the expression "cne
horse" is regarded as contemptuous,
since the one-horse farmeriB usually
among those who cannot make ends
meet at the years end, and come out
with balance on the debt rather than
the credit side Of his account-if he
keeps an account, though he may be
too negligent even to keep one. Under
this heading is not to be placed the
small land owner, for he may get as
much net value out Of fifty or 100
acres by economical and at the same
time methodical agriculture as lis
neighbor who pays taxes on double
the area, but who has not appreciated
the profit which comes from progress.
The same rule applies to the farmer as
to the merchant, the manufacturer,
even the banker-it rests with the
man himself to apply judgment and
method, as already stated, in making
b1siness out Of agriculture, or
pic ming and sowing haphasard,
trusting to nature to repay him with
the harvest.
But nature helps those who help
themselves by taking advantage of
mechanical invention and applying
processes which experience or pos.
sibly the farm college has taught
them. The best proof Of this fact is
what appears to be the wonderful re-
suits which have attended agriculture
on large scale in the great grain belt
beyond the Mississippi as we'll as in
the Contra! West. Here the corn or
wheat field may be calculated by the
square mile-not the acre. Instead
Of the one horse you hear Of four, six,
even dozen, hauling the apparatus.
The bushels Of grain are reckoned in
$4,000 lots, and one man may own
what would be called Q township in
the older States. Yes, there are one
man farms, not one.horse farms, but
with this difference-the man may
not put his hand to the plough or toss
bundle Of hay from years end to
the other. He devotes his ability
and experience to getting the best re-
suits out Of the men he employs and
the machinery he owns, and wherever
it is question whether the man or
the machine will do the most he takes
the machine every time. .5,,.
TWENTY-FIVE yesrs ago the man am
bitisss enough to attempt to oulti-
vhte 1000 acres would probably have
foen thought idiotio, but such. has
been our agricultural progress that To-
lay one can find farms in the West
ranging as high as 10, 900 acres. In a
single year the owner Of one contain
ing 5000 acres in Iowa has placed in
tho bank 5O,000-the profits Of thas
period after taking ont oil expenses.
In other words, every acre OF the farm
nettsd him over 90, counting in 400
acres Of woodland, roads and ,oii ON.
which nothing productive was, ecitis
vated. L msy be needleBs ! to say
that this farmer kept an account; and
q minute account, Of every item Of
income and outlay. An analysis Of
this account is Of interest. for it ex-
plains in part how he succeeded where
/ others would have failed. i
The farm in question is called u
"oorn farm. This title is somewhat
misleading. In addition to corr, no
less than 1000 acres are planted in
B wheat each year and about COO acres
noats. Corn ID relied upon for the
I priIcipal money. return the cash crop
I -brtif all the available soil were
I devoted 90 j. annually sar moro ferti.
lixer would be eqaiIsd than &c another
cereal were :oeosa; ;onall planted 4 sti so
thhs1 crop ID rotated By. raising three
sspssssiys hsfvasts os corn from )
4 hslu. then putting y it IN uhDator
oats'and following ihis fhsrvsss With
three more sof 81 CORR. he land is
valued 90 s3O O.En scre represep sins sn
+ Investment ia The soiil pf 418O O,O0O.l