The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-02-18
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
BooKKEEpING ON THE FARM
The Progressive Farmer Can No
Get Along without IL, the
other Kind May. -

believe Emerson and Flint In the
Manual of Agriculture say "The Keep
ing of accurate accounts is indispensa
bile to complete success. In farming
and / indorse the the saying iron
start to finish. If farmer does nov
keen an account Of what he does inc
fact is that he never knows whether
his business is profitable or not he
might know whether he is richer now
than he was ten or fifteen years ago.
or whether he is worth several nun
dreds and perhaps thousands OF dollars
less. 1t may be with some that tnere
is very little difference. They are Just
standing still and do not know which
branch of their business is Keeping
them Door and which one Is making
the living. If little figuring nad
been done the part which was makine
the loss could have abeen dispensed
with. but the most of such farmers
do not know which one it is, ana oiten
do away with the best one. A little
figuring is often worth, dollars to us
Figure and keep account OF your nog
business, and if you lose money on
hogs and can not make anything At
the business, try something else' OF
do nothing. Keep q book account, ana
you will always know these Things.
keep in o day-book or diary wnat y
> done each day. This only takes Z
> line or two for every day. l put dowl
the work. do, and any business trans
, action or in other words this is m!
!, diary. and everybody knows what
? diary is. | find it helpful in referring
o to back dates many times. Besides
this l keep a complete set OF pooK
e ON the simplest plan of bookkeeping
h These are small books ruled IN diner
n emf form as needed. The whole Sc
r of five cost only fifty cents, and WI
Il last the average farmer several years
X A farmer does not need to have tnos
e large clothbound books. II ne wlsne
y he can get some Of the practical blank
n which students use at the business co
ct leees. or some of the smaller clotr
ID hound books which are not expensive
X hut no matter how much they cos
10 YOU should keep an account In SON
I'd way. To just keep list OF transa
e. tions in a small day-book is bett'
OF than none at all, and it would be we
he to carry a small book and pencil q
lis the time. Farmers have just as mut
ut 1 right to look and act like busine
It. men as anyone, for every farm
,ir should be a business man. So keep
,ra account of your business. 1t is We
ID essential that farmers keep an accou
es, IF their business transactions, for tn
&C. can see Just how they stand financial
re- in few minutes, and those who ke
ne hooks stand better than those who
~. not ana by not keeping books tn
hardly know which way or how D
III. thew do stand. Deliver all things
ust number and weight, and put all thin
ose in writing that you givest out or
for ceivest in" Is what we nno III
in Eccleciastes xiii, Z, and it is W
tn. idea. Along this line 1t would
better If farmers would do lit
49,. more figuring. II you are going
undertake something which is new
YOU. figure we'll before you go into
"a We can figure on almost anythi
and never figure too high. Alw
give good measure in. figuring and
~. low uleuty for extras. / urge all fal
ers tn keep some kind OF an acco
Of their transactions. | am satis
that it pays, and if you try 1T you
he satisfed.-E. J. Waterstripe,
rcnitomist .