The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-30
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 z 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 thing there must be some good derived from it.
 Organizations among farming com mittees have 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 a 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 uniform and reason able price on our farm products, and in hundreds of other ways take our 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 read of where combines among farm CTS in the west have resulted in great benefit where they have handled their business themselves. But as long as 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, and until we arouse ourselves along this line and begin to examine into the business principles which underly our farming interest, we need not expect the universal prosperity and good will which might reign supreme among us
 It is generally accepted theory that we of the south have not suffi- cient capital at command to develop our agricultural interests to the high 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 success full business end. We must demon strate to those who have money to invest that there is no business that returns such sure profits on the in- vestment when properly managed as farming. When we succeed in estab- fishing this fact to the satisfaction of the moneyed men of the country, we will have no further trouble in finding plenty of money at cheap rates of in terest to be loaned on good farm se- curity. When we consider that often our crops are cut off 50 per cent. in { one year. and that frequently we suf- fer losses ih stock and property that wOuld bankrupt any other line of busi- hess, 1t should not be any great diffi- &ulty in proving to, the capitalists of t0r country that no security is so Good or certain for term of years IT a good farm with wide-awake
 nsinesslike farmer in control.