The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-25
FRANK 3. HOWE. Editor and Publisher
FARMING IN VERMONT

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farming Farmer Greene says, Cat .
tie raising is the Vermont farmers
main chance" Farmer Hindley takes
exception and makes Farmer Greene, /
who has been careless enough to de-
liver an address on the New Vermont
without first forcing every reporter
out of the hail. eat his own words.
He tells of intensive farming and
the beauties and profits of apple and
strawberry culture Such Child's
talk makes some of us real farmers
who are doing a little editing as a
side line, smile, a smile indicative Of
the charity that experience always
entertains toward mere theory.-Bel-
lows Falls Times
You are right Farmer Belknap, but
we old horny handed farmers and sons
Of farmers, for seven generations, can
afford to be charitable and let the
boys do their little stunt in theoriz-
ing. The production Of food supply
is going to be a greater problem OF
coming generations than the control
of corporations or the negro ques-
ton and it is not too early to think
along these lines.
Farmer Greene in celebrating his
theory must be mighty careful along
the line he has laid down or he will
come out with red ink balance in
his ledger instead of a balance TO his
bank account, owing to our long cold
winters in Vermont. necessitating ex-
penslve and intensive feeding and
handling with attendant dangers from
disease and loss thereby
Farmer Hindley in urging his
views should bear in mind that the
growing of small fruits successfully
requires as much technical knowledge
as it does to run a locomotive and as
close attention to business as
cashier gives to his bank. The sue
cess of the enterprise depends on the
man mostly
Farming isn't so much different
from any other business. T o make
it so, develop it along the lines that
investigation shows are most avail
able If you want to make your town
grow it is a good thing to try to bring
in new business, provided always that
the location is favorable to that bust
ness, but it is better thing to en-
large and develop what you already
have. If you have a townsman who
wants to start some manufacturing
business, see that he gets encourage
ment and little extra capital il he
needs it. Who knows but what it
may be the starting of something that
will grow into a great manufacturing
enterprise, like the scale works at
st. Johnsbury and Rutland or the
knitting industry at Bennington.
So in farming Look around and
see what your farm will produce for
which there is an available market
within reasonable distance. Pick out
line and work it for all you are
worth. Nowadays there is cash
, market for practically everything
, that can be produced on a farm and
the market is growing faster than the
: supply.
But it isn't enough to merely pro-
duce in haphazard sort of way To
succeed you must produce at a cost
that will leave you a margin of profit
Study the question from that point OF
view. If you make success one
year try to make it greater success
the next. Watch the detail In
crease the production without in
creasing the expense. That is the
. secret of any business.
A few years ago two farmers OF
Long Island we're engaged in raising
y onions for the New York market
4 Their crops averaged about 300
bushels per acre. One farmer studied
the question and in the course of {
/ few years was making his farm pro
= duce onions at the rate OF 800
bushels per acre. He retired las
year in the prime of life and wortl
d $l50000, The other farmer still get
:. a crop of 800 bushels per acre an
hasn't got the mortgage on his farr
paid off yet.
= Great successes in farming are NO
common, and neither are they in othe
business, but farmers in this countr
"a today have the best opportunity the
IT. ever had If they will put the stud
H. and care into it. Don't follow tn
old ruts. Produce something tina
9 you can sell for cash and don't hav
to swap to a junk dealer and TAX
your pay in trade. When you prov
that you can produce a line at a pro
it, produce more and more and nor
of it, keep down your expense an
you will soon find you are on the roa
" 90 prosperity