The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
SCULLY AS LANDLORD
Defense of His System on Farming on Large
 Scale.


 s2o,ooo, sso,Oo0 and as high as s5O.0oc. m their own right and still lease my land. They may own other farms, but they have not abandoned the Scuily farms because the very leases com nand a premium and I rent them so low they are sources of profit to the men who farm them. The finest land l have in Illinois rents for $4 an acre. Other landlords here rent their farms on the crop share plan and sometimes make It twice as much as I do. SeulIy Farmers Good.
 The men who farm the ScuIly lands are good farmers. We would not per- init them to remain there if they were not. They are temperate men. They among themselves and waste their 1 money in lawsuits. We do not have trouble with them ourselves. It has been thirty-two years since we have had lawsuit with tenant ever 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 class of men wno make money for themselves and their landlord. You ask why the Scuily farms make mcney 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 do WithOub SuS lAFus WHICH produces iJS grain and so much of its food. The people who raise these things can al- ways make money if they had the in- dustry and hard sense necessary to making money In anything. The Scul- ly farms make money because they are leased by men who are good farm CTS. These men SOW their crops in thA 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 in- telligence to every one of our farms. We cultivate the soil thoroughly. We do nothing by halves.
 Gives Ills RnIea.
 A man interested in something else more than he is interested In farm Ing can not hold lease on a ScuIly farm A men who gets drunk cannot hold lease on a Sculiy farm. A man who does net pay his debts can not have one of our leases. Such men would injure our name. We have lived us and we do not intend that 1t shall ever rise. again.
 Within recent years we have heard a great deal Of pessimistic talk about American farms passing into the pos- session of a few wealthy land owners. The increasing number of farms op- efated by tenants was pointed to as
 
 lily sinking Into state of tenantcy. through the foreclosure of mortgages. According to the new census figures I the total number of farms in the Uni ted States has increased from 4.500 OOe in 1890 to 5,7O0,000 in 1900. Those op- erated by tenants have increased be- | tween 40 and 45 per cent while those titled by their owners have increased between 15 and IS per cent.
 The chief statistician in the Agri- cultural Department of the Census Bu- f reau says the real cause of the large | increase of tenant farmers Is an up- ward and not downward movement in the economic scale This does not in- l dicate a degradation in the rural pop ulation, but an uplifting that has raised not less than 100000 families in the last decade from the position of wage earner to that of owners of large or small tracts of land The statistics show the increase in farm tenants to be heaviest in the old farming dis | triets.
 Study of Lifetime.
 | T have made life study of this matter of leased farms. have ap- l piled upon the Seully rarms methods which are the. fruit of a lifetime of I study. The result is that I have made a success of farming on a large scale. I have been successful because I have centered everything in the man who leased from me Tn every work of life the result depends upon the man. Give me men of the right stuff and wal make a success of any reasonable un- dertaking. If each of the farmers on the Seully lands is a money making 1 farmer, how can Scully lose? If each of the farmers on the Scully lands is an industrious. intelligent, temperate man how can he fail to make money? 'The majority of my tenants are Ger mans. As class I have found them the best farmers. There are dozens of German farmers on my lands who are rich men. There are scores of them who began as farm hands. then became lessees, and finally owners of farms The Scully plan gave them an oppor- tunity. to lease 6 farm when they had no money"