The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-23
FARMERS, TRUCK AND FRUIT GROWERS
NEED TO CONSIDER BUSINESS METHODS
And Properly Provide Against Losses by Preparing to Can
Their Products--No Reason Why the Producer Should
Not Sell all He Grows in His Land.

land, the Time bestowed upon edCA
crop and the total cost of grow
ing, ready for the market. Does
the reader who farms know the
profit he makes from eachacrop?
If he does not, how does he know
what to plant?
If you could make. fifty dollars
en- an acre of potatoes over and
above all expenses includinglyour
own wages and only twenty-five
dollars on an acre of cabbage after
expenses are deducted, which
would you plants If you do not
know whether you are making or
losing money is it not discourag-
ing? Perhaps you are not familiar
with bookkeeping or feel that you
cannot spare the time to learn
these things from your own expert
ence. If you should buy a hundred
bushels of potatoes would you not
measure them? Of course you
would. You do not wish to be
cheated. Well, is it not losing if
you plant crops which do not give
you value received2
Why will you continue selling
your time and the work and earn
ing power of your farm for less
than they are worth?
If you cannot keep accounts,
you can at least read what reli-
able men of experience have dem
onstrated. What a man should
plant is a vital question to him and
his family. You know very well
that every man means to plant
what he thinks will pay him best.
But how is hegoing to know what
will pay him best unless he either
tries all crops within his ability
or does that which is far better,
read what others have done?
The first question one must de-
e1de is what crops will grow well
on his land, the next is to find out
which of these are in demand.
The next step is to seek the best
market to be found for the crops
you have decided to plant and then
make provision for preparing
properly that which you have Ia
bored so ~strenuously to produce.
Do you think that man is rea-
sonable who put his capital into a
farm and then his time to raise
crops without making provision
for the disposition of his products?
No indeed, you nor any other sane
man can afford to take such
to your grocer and your neighbors
Further it is not necessary. You
must count ON its costing you
something to get your product to
the market. Again let us repeat,
read, talk, to other growers and
listen to them. learn what other
parts of the country are doing
and follow the plans others have
proved most successful and your
land will become fruitful and pro-
ftable. Go into any grocery store
and You will find on the shelves
canned vegetables and fruit which
were grown and packed all over
the lnio4. Iouanlll see your
neighbour buying the same kind Of
canned vegetables you grew on
your lar aid which your neigh
bors refused to buy of you.
N you canned your vegetables
and fruit you could then sell them
are not almighty? We canot pre-
would buy the products you grew
from the grocer in cans.
The farmer allows the tomatoes
he has grown to rot on the vines
and IN the winter buys canned to-
matoes grown a thousand miles
away. ALI because he does not take
the trouble to think how he can
avoid this state of affairs. What
is the remedy? It is as plain as
need be. Do as others do who pros
per. Have canneries, preserving
and reduction plants. Grow the
crops which have the largest de-
mand and are the most profitable.
Ii you do not know, read and
know for yourself.
Times r constantly changing.
Who has not heard the old, old
saying: 1T was good enough for
our fathers, and what was good
enough for them is good enough
for us. This saying is quite old
enough to be buried, fcsnoms deep
way out in the Atls.1ic Ocean.
The saying has been dead for over
a century, even since Uur fathers
left Europe. The cannon O 1776
killed it and Old Liberty Bell
rang out its requiem. Pray let us
bury it. Cannot you see that we
are not almighty. We cannot pre-
vent the boil weevil. We cannot
prevent the changes which oro -