The Green Forest tribune., 1910-07-01
MANY BENEFITS TO FARMER
Necessity of Applying Strictly Busi- ness Principles to All Lines of
 Farm Work Urged.

By w. B. MERGER. Mississippi)
 The old idea that the farmer does not need training is fast disappear ing. No other line of work requires greater forethought and nothing else offers greater opportunities for the de- velopment of business ability.
 The opportunities to the young men are unbounded, but to insure success in this line of work they should take a thorough course in some good agri- cultural college. Farmers, whose school days are past, should attend the farmers institutes and make a practise of reading the bulletins of the various experiment stations. These are very instructive and helpful
 Farmers should learn that only the most profitable crops should be raised, all feed should be saved, only good stock raised, and the fertility of the soil should be carefully preserved, and that diversified crops are neces- sary to success.
 This is day of organization and counter-organization. No business or profession is without them, and when everyone adopts a thing there must be some good derived from it.
 Organizations among farming com mittees have a great bearing upon their business standing. The farmer cries out against organizations in other enterprises, but fails to realize that it is possible for him to organize into body that could defy the world
 Since we have trusts and combines with us, and they are here to stay would it not be a sensible proposition for us to stop complaining and play at their own game? If we combine properly it is in our power to regulate freight rates, taxation and buy and sell our products at wholesale.
 We could fix a uniform and reason able price on our farm products, and in hundreds of other ways take oul business affairs into our own hands This would stop every other vocation from f1eecing us and we would cease to hear the cry of oppression from the agricultural part of our land. We
  CTS in the west have resulted in grea benefit where they have handled theil business themselves. But as long a: we are cursed by the credit system in vogue throughout the south, we need not hope for financial freedom This evil can be eradicated by us, anC until we arouse ourselves along thi. line and begin to examine into tht business principles which underly ou, | farming interest, we need not expec the universal prosperity and good vii which might reign supreme among us
 It is a generally accepted theor, that we of the south have not sufi cient capital at command to develol our agricultural interests to the high est degree. All of us realize hoy | handicapped any farmer is withou sufficient money at hand to carry ou his best plans and ideas to a success full business end. We must demon strate to those who have money t invest that there is no business tha returns such sure profits on the in vestment when properly managed a farming. When we succeed in estat | fishing this fact to the satisfaction O the moneyed men of the country, w will have no further trouble in findin, plenty of money at cheap rates of in terest to be loaned on good farm SC curity. When we consider that oftel our crops are cut off 50 per cent. il one year, and that frequently we sui fer losses in stock and property tha would bankrupt any other line of busi ness, it should not be any great diff culty in proving to the capitalists O our country that no security is S, | good or certain for a term of year as a good farm with wide-awak ] businesslike farmer in cont