Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-30


FOR A FARM
would all sell for 500 an acre. Add
to this his cattle and horses and ma
chinery and a few incidentals, such as
bank stock and the like. and he has
a fortune approximating $4,000,000.
This has all been made in farming.
Corn has been his speciality. and it has
always been marketed in the form of
cattle. He has always used the most
modern machinery and the best equip
ment that money can buy. 1t has been
the same with help. His foremen are
men who can get results. He furnishes
them with automobiles to take them
from farm to farm because he has
found that it pays in the time saved.
He attributes his success to close per-
sonal attention and the application of
business methods to farming
Another man who has made millions
in farming is Colonel James M. Smith
of Georgia. Colonel Smith started
raising corn and cotton on rundown
quarter section in Oglethorpe county
soon after the war. The first year he
lost $500. Last year his net profits
were 100000. In the meantime his
farm has increased to $4,000 acres,
Colonel Smith was one of the first men
to build cottonseed oil mills and make
a profit from what formerly had been
a waste product. His farm was TWEEN
ty-five miles from the nearest railroad.
but he solved the problem by building
a railroad of his own. He has always
been a personal friend of all his men.
white and black alike. He has pro-
vided well equipped schools for both
the negro and the white children of his
employees Unlike David Rankin. who
never bad even a common school edu-
cation. Colonel Smith is college grad
uate. He learned to handle men in
the army. and he applied the same or
ganization to his farm work with
great results.
Colonel Smiths success has demon
strated what can be done on the farm
land of the south. One of his 200
acre farms a year ago yielded 4.S00
bushels of wheat and 200 bales of cot
ton. The wheat sold for 81 bushel
and the cotton for $50 a bale. making
a total income from the farm of $14,
500 After taking out the expenses
This might we'll make even Missis
sippi valley farmer PnviOuS
The west has been heraldPd as the
land of opportunity. In the. early days
when land could he had almost for the
asking and the cattle business was ut
its Is.'si "A FDnpG man Of the name of
Henry Miller S+HFted OHt 10 make a
fortune in the FaRrh business To-day
be is worth $2h.AmIs0 He once an
nnunrPd that ne hoped some day 70
own the whole state nf California. In
this he did not succeed although his
holdings in California amount to 600,
0OC acres He also has large tracts
of and in Nevada and Oregon.
The ranch business is on the decline
in the west. and what was once one
mans cattle ranch is now being cut
up to make farms for the hundreds
OF thousands of land hungry settlers
who are pouring in;0 what is still
1.-THE land of opportunity" About
twenty years ago an Iowa farmer sold
n half section of land. paid his debts.
and. WITH seven or eight thousand
dollars in cash. a wife and four chill
drpu. started for Arizona He located
In the Salt river valley. bought as
much of the cheap land MS his money
would pay for aud SGT ont to learn
Irrigation farming He learned 1t well
md mad" money. rhp surplus went
TO buy more Ihnd He joped the
Wafer Users hSSmiaiion ana WAS in
fuentiHl in getting congress Ia start
The Sail river irrigation project Gov
erpDlt-1Ii irrigation Insured permanent
prosperity for the SAIL river valley
and today tsllS pioneer farmer who
set OUT 10 nakF y fortune III the
great Americas desert Is worth more
than $2U00G0
SIcCeSS in the irrigated districts is
NOT necessarily measured III extensive
farms and large bank accounts
few years ago u locomotive engineer.
sixty years old aud broken II, nralth.
moved FROM Minneapolis to The state
of WashiHginn He Doughi an acre
of irrigated lnBd. paying $l.4'm f"i IT,
Ii contained an apple orchard ~ pnnr
condition. house and few dilaD-
idated outbuidingS. The purchase Of
the land took nearly all The oii ED
giDrers savings. He prun4i tbr old
apple frees and set out thirty Hew
ones He sold of few inoHgrel
chickens hat were OH tile place and
bought Il pure bred rooster aud three
hens After the first years expenses
were paid br had enough motley left
to pun on many improvements he
next year be put money In tue bank.
and the year after, So we'll did The