Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-04
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BRAINS COUNT ON A FARM.
Many MiIlionaires Among Those Who
Till the Soil.

Many MiIIionaires Among Those Whe
Till the Soil.
These are the days Of big things be-
cause we are getting down to business
more and more. In other words, we
are realizing that so much can be ac-
complished by observing labor-savine
and therefore, time-saving meth
DDS. Perhaps the farmers have
been among the most recent to realize
It, as is indicated by the actual revol-
ution in America which Is taking
place.
The work of the farmer has beer
called an industry, but with the man OF
today, who depends on the soil fol
a livelihood, It is also business to be-
come more productive to the extent
that each phase Of it is carried out on
progressive and systematic lines, and
this is why the expression zone horse
is regarded as contemptuous, since the
one-horse farmer is usually among
those who cannot make ends meet al
the years end, and comes out with q
balance on the debit rather than the
credit side of his account-if he keeps
an account, though he may be too neg
ligent even to keep one. Under this
heading is not to be placed the small
II land owner, for he may get as mucn
net value out Of fifty or 100 acres by
economical and at the same time meth
odical agriculture as his neighbour who
paws taxes on double the area, but who
has not appreciated the profit which
comes from progress. The same rule ap-
plies 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 a business out OF
agriculture, or ploughing and sowing
haphazard, trusting to nature to repay
him with the harvest.
Advantages Of New Inventions.
But nature helps those who help
themselves by taking advantage Of me-
chanical inventions and applying pro-
cesses which experience or possibly the
farm college has taught them. The best
proof of this fact is what appears to be
the wonderful results which have
attended agriculture on large scale In
the great grain belt beyond the Missis-
sippi as we'll as in the Central 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 a dozen, hauling the
apparatus. The bushels Of grain are
reckoned in $4,000 lots, and one man
may own what would be called town
ship 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
a bundle of hay from one years end tc
the other. He devotes his ability and
experience to getting the best results
out of the men he employs and the
machinery he owns, and whenever II
is a question whether the man or the
nachine will do the most he takes the
nachine every time.
Farms of 10000 Acres.
| twenty-five years ago the man am
bilious enough to attempt to cultivate
1000 acres would probably have beer
thought idiotic, but such has been oul
agricultural progress that today one
can find farms in the West ranging as
high as 10000 acres. In a single veal
the owner Of one containing 5000 acres
in Iowa has placed in the bank $50, ,00(
the profits Of that period after TAX
ing out all expenses. In other words,e ev-
cry acre of the farm netted him ovel
$S, counting the 400 acres of woodland
roads and soil on which nothing pro.
ductive was cultivated. 1t may be need.
less to say that this farmer kept an ac'
count, and a minute account, Of ever.
item Of income and outlay. An anal
ysis Of this account is of interest, for i
explains in part how he succeeded
where others would have failed.
The farm in question Is called corr
farm" This title is somewhat mislead
ing. In addition to corn, no less thai
1000 acres are planted in wheat eacl
year and about 600 acres in oats. Corr
is relied upon for the principal none!
return-the cash crop-but If all th
available soil were devoted to it an
nually far more fertilizer would be re
quired than if another cereal were oc
casionally planted, so the crop Is 70
tated by raising three successive har
vests Of corn from a field, then put
ting" it in wheat or oats and followin,
this harvest with three more of corn
The land is valued at $50 an acre, rep
resenting an investment in tn
soil of $1SO,OOO. The improvements
which include houses, barns and build
ngs of all kinds, fences, sewerage
machinery and live stock, swell tn
total to $25S,500. If the farmer hat
this capital placed where it paid hin
10 per cent interest his income from /