The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-21
FARMING is A BUSINESS.
In Order to Pay 1t Must Be Carried
Out on the Strictest Business
Principles.

With the rapid growth of population
and the shifting of industrial centers
there have been constant changes ia
agricultural practices. A study of the
worlds history shows that while agrL
culture has been and will continue to
be the primary basis of wealth. II has
reached It's highest development where
most closely allied with the factory. No
country can continue to be prosperous
where agriculture is the sole depend
ence. nor can any country hope to be in
dependent and enjoy the best fruits OF
its industry where manufacturing con-
stitutes the chief source of wealth. The
farm and factory must go side by side
In order TO bring about the greatest
progressive. intellectual and industrial
development.
b. T. Galloway, chief of the United
States bureau of plant industry. states
that the output from the factory now
constitutes 60 per cent. of this country'5
annual production of wealth. and coin
cident with the development of fac
tories in a community there has been u
corresponding increase in the value Of
farm lands, as well as in the products of
the farm. The great era of manufactur-
ing upon which this country is now en-
tering is bound TO have a beneficial eff
feet upon agriculture, for, aside from
the great possibilities of agricultural de-
velopment alone. without reference TO
other industries, II is clear that as fac
tories continue 10 increase in numbers
and enlarge their output agriculture
must necessarily grow TO meet these
conditions.
Nearly all the best arabic land of the
country has now been taken up. and
those who are most vitality concerned
with soil production realize that hence
forth the main problem for the man
who intends TO make cultivation of the
soil his occupation will be not so much
question OF greater acreage, but of
greater production from a given acre.
If America hopes to continue her phe-
nomenal development she must be able
to produce not only the enormous guam
titles OF food required for her own in
creasing Industrial population, but
large share Of the food for other nations
as we'll.
Tho nnnttlatiAn Af ~ he L..
eastern cities and their contributory
territory will aggregate 15.000,OOO peo-
pie. Both population and wealth are
constantly increasing, and In conse-
quence there is a growing demand for
something more than the mere neces-
saries of life On account Of the rapidly
Increasing demand for the products Of
the soil, a great deal is being said and
written about farming as a vocation.
Many inducements are being held out
TO city people and others, and many
erroneous statements are being made as
TO the opportunities In this field. I'm
questionably there is need for pointing
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all good things, the tendency sometimes
is 10 carry the argument too far, and this
results in inducing many people to go
into the country or to undertake farm
life who are wholly untitled for the
work. The city man is often mlsled by
statements written by those not wholly
conyersant with the facts and again by
those who have interests at stake and
who would directly benefit by inducing
the prospective farmer to invest in land.
While the present day brings many
opportunities in agriculture farming is,
like every other industry. business.
aud must he approached in a business
like manner in order to insure success