The Nevada County picayune., 1910-07-01
MANY BENEFITS TO FARMER
Necessity of Applying Strictly BusE ness Principles to All Lines of
 Farm Work Urged.

(By W B MERCIER. 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 fin this line Of work they should take a thorough course in some good asri- cultural college. Farmers, whose school days are past. should attend the farmers institutes and make q 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 he fertility of the soil should be carefully preserved, and that diversified crops ale neces- sary 10 success
 This t q day of organization and counter-orEanization No business or profession is without them, and when everyone adopts d thins tbcre must be some good derived From it,
 Organizations ameHg farming com mittees have great bearing upon their business standing The farmer cries out against organizations in other enterprises, bgt fails to realize that it is possible for him 10 organize Into body that could defy the world
 Since We have trusts and combines with us, and they are here 10 stay. would t net be sensible proposition for us to stop complaining and play at their own game II We combine properly il is in cur power to regulate freight rates taxation and buy and sell our products at wholesale.
 We couI fix a uniform and reason able price on our farm products. and In hundreds uf o.her ways take our business affairs iuto ear own hands This would stop every other vocation from ti#=eHn5 as ana s=e would cease to hcar ide cry of oppression From Che agricultural part of eur land Nc read of Hhsrg combines among farm. CTS in tha west havg resaltod in great benefit @hgre they EaFa handled taeir business themselves Bat as long as we are cursed by tha credit system in vogue Ehf0gGldf Che south. NC need not hope for financial freedom This eyIl can le erad.eated by us. and Uuul We arouse ourselves along his line and begin to examine iuru the business principles which underly our farming interest, We need not eXneet the universal prosperity and good Will which might reign supreme among lis
 r. is generally accepted theory that of the saHth have not saM .cient capital at command to deyeloT our agricultural interests to the hien est degree. All of Us realize how handicapped any farmer is without sufficient money at hand to carry out his best plans and ideas to a saeeass aul business end We must demon stratc 10 those who have money te invest that there is no business ihY returns such sure profits oN the n eestment when properly managed q, farming When We succeed iu tstab fishing thts fact to the satisfaction O the moneyed men Of tHe country. w will have no further trouble in f0Gul plenty ot money at cheap rates of in terest 10 be loaned on good farm SC curity When we consider that olteI 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 bus ness, it should not he any great dir culty in proving 10 the capitalists c our country that no security Is s good or certain for a term of year
 as a good farm with wide.awak iousinesslike farmer in control.