The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-10-19
BRAINS COUNT ON FARM.
Many Millionaires Among Those Who It'll
the Soil.
New York Times.

stated, he has cleared as high as
$4,000 in one year, and in period
OF ten years his profits have never
been less than $4,000 at each years
end. The expense account would
stagger many man who calculates on
100 or 500 acres. It would buy what
would be considered good-sized farm
in some parts of the United States,
for it amounts to $4,000 year. but
it includes everything, even the de-
probation in value each year of build
ings and machinery, which the owner
estimates at 10 per cent. Therefore
every harvest must yield him at least
s4, 900 in order to make the smallest
profit recorded, but, as already init
mated, this kind of farmer estimates
by the $4,000 and 10000 bushels,
as he calculates his outlay in tens
Of thousands Of dollars. Here is
what was put into his granaries in one
season:
215,000 bushels Of corn.
. 20,500 bushels of wheat.
$4,000 bushels of oats.
He sold the corn for s64,50O, the
wheat for $4,000 and by feeding the
oats to his animals reduced his year 8
feed bill to 5000.
The expert corn grower who reads
this article will doubtless be surprised
at the harvest to the acre-over fifty
bushels-but this farmer, swho makes
it his business, does not waste an
an acre of cultivated soil, and after it
is ploughed gives one part the esme
attention and care he gives to all
through his machinery and the men
behind it. In the preparation of the
ground the gang ploughs come into
play, each drawn by six sturdy horses.
If the soil is heavy even the seeders
arc drawn by four horses, never less
than two. You do not see the "man
with the hoe" walking over the field
and wasting half dozen kernels where
he plants one; then another man fol-
lowing him to bury the seed in the
earth. These machines drop just
three grains in every space allotted
for hill because they can be adjust
ed to do it. and cover the grain auto
natically. In planting time you can
count thirty of them in operation. so
the thousands Of acres are seeded as
quickly, if not more quickly, than
hundred. To harrow the surface the
farmer starts out hundred harroWs
in morning. If they were placed
eide by side they would cover a strip
1000 feet in width as they move along.
, He keeps the weeds from choking the
young corn with seventy-fve cult
vasors, each drawn BY two horses.
The imam with the hoe'' exists only
in poetry on this place. Time and
space are too precious for him. When
the crop is gathered seventy-fve four
horse wagons haul the piles Of ears to
the barns, placed here and there at
convenient points,to save time.
Throughout it all the idea is to
keep every man, every animal and
every machine doing what can be
done to the best advantage, each form
ing part of q system Of which the
farmer is director. Consequently the,
same thoroughness is noted in one
part as in another, and the farm 10 as
carefully divided into departments as
an up-to-date factory or store, each
one knowing what he has to do and
how aud when to do it.
,. II 10 not strange that this man may
:s'mske" his corn crop FOR 10 cents o
1bushel where it costs his neighbor,
Who does not believe in ''nex-fargled''
msthods, nearly twice .nis amou at.
When I farm cen 20 conducted as q
business and the cost Of ploughing,
planting, oultivating and every other
expense snm sH less tthan S55 Tor every
acre, while the corn from every acre
sells for Two or three times this
amount, the brsiness Of agriculture is
worth thinking over.
The part which mechanical appli-
anoea play in aiding the modern yhus-
bandman is one Of the most interest-
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