The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-06-01

TWO OF THE MARES THAT HELPED TO PAY
FOR A FARM.
would all sell for 500 an acre Add
to this his cattle and horses and ma
chinery and few incidentais, such as
bank stock and the like. and he has
u fortune approximating $4OOO,OOO
This has all been made in farming
Corn has been his specially. and il 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 NJ. 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 $4OO. Last year his net profits
were 100000. In the meantime his
farm has increased to 23,0DO acres
Colonel Smith was one of the first men
to build cottonseed oil mills and make
profit from what formerly bad been
waste product. His farm was twen
ty i've miles from the nearest railroad
but be solved the problem by building
a railroad OF bis own. He has always
been a personal friend OF all his men
white and black alike He has pro
videsl we'll equipped schools for both
the negro and the white children of his
employees. Unlike David Rankin. who
never had even a common school cdu
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
ssrated what can be done on the farm
land Of the south One of his 200
acre farms year ago. yielded 4.ah'
bushels OF wheat and 200 bales of cot
ton. The wheat sold for 81 bushel
and the cotton for $50 a bale. making
n total income from the farm OF Sl4.
500. After taking out the expenses
there was net profit of $5l an acre
This might well make even Missis
sinni valley farmer enviouS
The west has been heralded as th'
land Of opportunity. In the early days
when land could be had almost for tht
asking and the cattle business was al
its best. u young man of the name OF
| Henry Miller started out 10 make
| fortune In the ranch business Today
| he is worth S2O.OOO.OOO He once an
nounced that he hoped some day t.
own the whole state of California II
This he did not succeed. although bis
holdings in California amount TO 600.
| 600 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 ont
| mans cattle ranch is now being en-
up to make farms for the hundred!
of thousands Of land hungry settler'
who are pouring into what is still
.the land of opportunity. Abou
/ twenty years ago an Iowa farmer solt
/ 4 half section of land. paid his debts
| and. with seven or eight tln,.sant
/ dollars in cash. wife and four chill
dren. started for Arizona He lU.atet
| In the Salt river valley. bought Il
much of the cheap land as his more,
would pay for and So, out to lear
| irrigation farming He learned II We
and made money. The surplus Wei.
10 buy more land. He joined th