Warren sheaf., 1908-03-19
PROFITABLE DIVERSIFIED
FARMING
BY Frank Sherman in the Dakota Farmer

Ills HISC SGOCK OF 0OOOS. IN SnolVl0R
his building. usually LAYS out plan
that at once will be handy. and that
will accommodate his stock to the
very best advantage so that each
branch Of his stock can be kept in
perfect order and show off to the
very best advantage He also lays
out a plan of cash and credit sales,
and a plan for the treatment of his
clerks. The banker. lawyer. doctor.
teacher. contractor. manufacturer
and all great money making corpor-
ations Law out plan of operations
to follow. This plan is as much a
part of the success in any business as
the capital employed, and many
times of much more Importance.
In no business. trade or profession
is good practical plan of more i'm
portance than in running a farm for
long series of years, if one wishes
to be successful and get the most
comfort. happiness and profit Of it.
In travelling over the country. we
find such great proportion of farms
that seem to be run in a hand-to-
mouth sort of fashion without suit
able buildings, fences, gates and
lanes and without any system of
cropping. rotation or soil ..preserva-
tion. that 1t is a wonder that even
as good results are obtained as there
are.
Now it is not expected that the
young farmer just starting and with
little capital is going to at once put
on all the convenieuces; no. these
must come slowly. But a plan to
start with is as necessary as the
land, and. unlike the land. the plan
costs nothing except forethought and
good judgment. Plan first, then
work to the plan. This will save
time. money and worry.
Now, the very first thing in this
plan. to nv mind. my young farmer
friend. should be this: Right here |
make up my mind that the profess
sion Of farming is one that will con-
duce to make me and my family
happy, make me clean of purpose.
make me clean square man. make
of me a man who can look every
other man and my Creator souarely
in the face. make Of me a man that
when | have finished my career. my
neighbors will say. whether l am
man only in comfortable circum-
stances or am wealthy: ''There is
square man. He is nv best neigh
bor'-for more than this cannot be
said of a Carnegie. a Rockefeller. no,
nor of Lincoln or Roosevelt.
But | am. in this article. tC con-
slider a plan for running farm of
l60 acres. and the plan can be en-
larged to suit a larger or a smaller
farm. This plan will naturally call
for the labor of two men. during the
eight months summer season. or if
one has goodsized bows. the hired
man can be dispensed with.
One span of good. heavy. brood
mares, together with light team
for road and farm PURPOSES. should
be all the horses required. In fact
/. think span of heavy brood mares
would do all the work about the
farm. except perhaps in having aud
harvest. But the light team. while
partly luxury will add to the COM
fort and pleasure of the home to
more than equal the cost of their
keep. NV plan would call for 10 first
class COWS of a milking strain, 10
pure-bred brood sows. 100 breeding
ewes of good wool and mutton type.
and so hens of some good prue- bred
strain. Here we have the founda-
tion for sufficient amount of fer
tilizer to keep the farm uD to high
standard of cultivation and effici-
ency. factory with an equipment
that will work up the raw material
and enable one to put on the market
all the crops of grass. grain and
vegetables raised on the farm, in
form of a finished product, the re-
fuse of which goes back on the land
to enrich it.
Now l cannot draw a plan of a |
farm that will suit every farm, for
all farms do not lay smooth and all
tillable. Some have creeks, slouehs.
draws and stony land, and it would
be impossible to cut them up into
fields with fences like the plans l
will draw. But general idea can
be gotten from nv plan that will be
of value In planning any farm. Ny
plan, of course, supposes the whole
farm to be smooth. tillable, farm
land. ,.r .s..
BY referring to No. l, you will
find that In order to carry on my