The Washington herald., 1906-11-18
on Large Scale.

any of my farm districts men who have
been tenants Of mine for ten. twenty. or
thirty years. They would not have re-
mained upon my places had they been
unfairly treated. Some OF them are
worth slO.OO0 $4,000, $3oOCO. ard as high
as $4,000 in their own right and still lease
my land. They may own other farms,
but they have not abandoned the ScuHy
farms because the very leases command
premium and / rent them so low they
are sources Of profit TO the men who farm
them. The finest land I have in Illinois
rents for s. an acre. Other landlords
mere rent their farms on the crOp-share
plan and sometimes make il twice as
much as 1 do.
SculIy Farmers Good.
The men who farm the SculIy lands
are good farmers. We would not permit
! them to remain there If they were not.
They are temperate men. They pay their
debts. They do not quarrel among them
selves and waste their money IN lawsuits.
We DO not have trouble with them our
selves. It has been thirty-tvro years
since We have had lawsuit with a ten
ant over his lease or his rent. The men
who are On my farms are all worth
something. They take good care Of the
land. They are a class of men who mako
money for themselves and their landlord
You ask why the ScuIly farms make
money when We hear the cry that the
farm is no longer profitable. The farm
is still profitable. It will always be
profitable. The country can never 90
without the farm, which produces its
grain and 50 much Of its food The peo-
PIE who raise these things can always
make money II they they have the indus
try and hard sense necessary TO making
money In anything The SculIy farms
make money because they are leased b.
men who are good farmers. These men
SOW their crops in the proper season.
They SOW the right crops We know
where corn is best. where wheat is good
where this and that crop will pay. We
apply this intelligence 10 every one Of
our farms. We cultivate the soil thor
oughly. We do nothing by halves.
Gives His Rules.
a man interested in something else
more than he is interested in farming
can not hold lease on a ScuIIy farm.
A man who gets drunk cannot hold q
lease on Scully farm. 4 man who does
not pay his debts can not have one Of orr
leases. Such men would injure our name.
We have lived down a great deal Of feel
Ing against US and We 90 not intend that
ii shall ever rise again.
Within recent years we have heard a
great deal OF pessimistic talk about Amer
lean farms passing into the possession Of
Z few wealthy land owners. The in
creasing number Of farms operated by
tenants was pointed TO as a sign that the
former owners were rapidly sinking into =
state Of tenantcy through the foreclosure
OF mortgages.
According 10 the new census figures
the total number of farms in the United
States has increased from 100000 in 1850
TO $4,000 in 1900. Those operated bv
tenants have increased between q and Il
per cent, while those titled by their own
ers have increased between Is and IS per
cent.
The chief statistician in the Agricul-
tUral Department Of the Census Rr1res7l
says the real cause Of the large increase
OF tenant farmers is ar upward and not
downward movement in the economic
scale This does not indicate a degrada-
ton in the rural population but an up-
iAAAAli6 tllul IDS raised not less lnan fi-.ifHf
families n the last decade from the 1osi-
ton Of wage Garner 10 that Of owners Cf
large or small tracts OF land. The statsis-
tics show the increase in farm tenants 10,
be heaviest in the old farming districts.
study of Lifetime.
Il have made life study OF this matter
Of leased farms. have applied upon the
5cuily farms methods which are the fruit
Of lifetime OF study. The result is that
have made a success of farming on a
large scale. I have been successful be-
cause I have centered everything in the
man who leased from me. In every work
Of life the result depends upon the man.
Give me men of the right stuff and I will
make a success OF any reasonable under
taking. II each Of the farmers on the
5cully lands is mOney-making farmer.
now can Scully lOse2 If each Of the farm
ers on the Scully lands is an industrious.
intelligent. temperate man how can he
Tail 20 make money!
The majority Of my tenants are Ger
mans AS d class I have found them the
best farmers. There are dozens Of Ger
nan farmers on my lands who are rich
nen. There are scores Of them who be-
;an as farm hands. then became lessees.
md finally owners of farms. The Scuuy
)lan gave them an opportunity TO lease I
arm when they had no money