Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-27

running a small farm well can actually
make more clear money than man
who runs a large farm in common
way.
A farmer not long ago decided that
his holdings were entirely too lrge.
He was farming on a large scale and
employing a number of hands. He
sold nearly half of his l9nd but re-
tained all of his hired help, mu IN to
the surprise of his neighbors. They
thought that when he sold part OF
his land he would let a part or all Of
his help go. But he thought differ
farmer was a good business manager
and had always made money IT, ough
the employment of hired laNor. He
knew what he could do with land an IL
live stock and he set about to make
as much money on the small er farm
as he did on the larger farm, and he
did. He fertilized the small farm
more heavily, p'owed deeper ard bet
ter cultivated more fre1uently and
more thoroughly used better see1 d
implements, grew more inten i've
crops, purchased and br d better live
stock, and erected better fences AMI
farm buildings.
Some men hold that it does not pay
to employ high priced farm labor. 1t
all depends upon the man as a man
ager whether hired help WI pay If
the farmer himself can make money
at farming. then he can make m ney
out of hired labor, If he properly di-
rects that labor. Thousands of men
in other lines of business employ labor
and make money from it. In fact,
they could not run their business
without this hired hep. For the
farmer who knows how to farm there
is as much profit in farming as in
other lines of business, hence the go1d
farmer can employ good labor and
make a good profit on It, whether his
farm is large or small. IF he grows
ordinary field crops he will need less
labor, but If he grows crops re1u'ri~ G
intensive cultivation he NAV emp'oy
several hands the year round even on
a small farm.
Few farmers realize the immense
possibilities of the soil for producing
crops. Many of them are content, or
seem to be, with thirty bushels CT
corn and a ton of hay to the acre,
when the same land may be made to
yield more than 100 bushels of corn
and four to six tons of hay to the
acre. This is not theory, but fact. The
time is already here when men are
beginning to study and take a deep
interest in the SOIL Heavy fertiliza-
ton, deep ploWln", tn0rOugn prepara-
tion of the seed bed, high gra1e seed
and good cultivation will make aver
age land yield more than twice as
much as with the common, poor
methods of farming.
The making and saving of manure on
the farm and applying it directly to
the land before it has lost any of its
richness is one of the great secrets of
success in the business and of making
the farm increase in annual produc
tiveness. 1t pays to purchase manure
and haul it to the farm if one is To-
Gated near a town or city where the
product can be secured cheaply and
where the distance for hauling is not
more than two or three miles. On the
average farm, however, manure for
fertilizing the fields must be made at
home largely from the products of the
land farmed. The man who expects to
make his land increase in productive
ness from year to year and grow large
and profitable crops must keep some
domestic animals, such as cows and
horses, and save every pound of straw,
cornstalks and everything that will
make bedding and use it in the stables
for mixing with and absorbing the
droppings of the animals. These are
by-products of the farm which repre-
sent large money value when handled