The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-02-09
PROFITABLE FARM MANAGE.
MENT FURNISHES HIM SUBJ
JEcr FOR SAME.
PROPER PREPARATION FOR WORK
This as Important in Farming as in
Any of the Professions or Any
Great Financial Undertaking of the
Present Day.
Ry CAPT. T. F. PECK, Commission
er @. Agriculture

er @. Agriculture)
| / want to talk to the boys 'hi@s
week about their future work. /
want to ask them if they have not al
ready made up their minds and set
tied upon their life's work, to let me
tell them Of an opportunity open to
them if they want to succeed and
mean to succeed and are willing to
work for success and willing to put
energy anG intelligence in their work.
want to tell them that | am contin-
called upon by successful business
lien who are wealthy who have
bought fine farms and find it difficult
10 find competent farm managers to
lake the farms and manage them sue
cessfully. They tell me their farms
are fertile, they furnish good equip
ment but their managers get into
ut, they do not look after details
land they are setting no profit oIt of
the farm, they cannot have the farms
KEPT attractive the leaks and mis-
management takes all the profit.
They tell me they know of farmers
whose land is not as fertile naturally
as theirs, not so much spent for
equipment and yet, those farms be-
cause Of good management are profit
aole to their owners. They say they
I2re willing tc pay literally for man
ayers who make good. There are
thousands of such positions open to-
lAay, and would be moro if there was
assurance Of competent men to fill
them. Boys. DO you see anything in
! this for you? Do you want to en-
! gage in q work that is the foundation
/ Of all industries? In work that is a
creator of wealth where no one is
made poorer by your prosperity? An
industry that is in older countries
considered the most honorable, and
will be so considered in this country
when our brainy young men take hold
Of it? If you do l would suggest that
you make up your minds to be farm
Iers. Not the slip shod, happy go
lucky farmers we see so much evil
dence of, not the kind of farmer that
thinks that farming does not require
Intelligence, hut farmers who know
how to build up soil fertility, who
know how to selct crops for their
| markets, how to select seed for their
crops, how to plant, how to cultivate
and market their crops, how to econ
omize time to do things at the right
time, the value of live stock on the
farm. How to select and raise Il, in
,, short, men who make the same thor
{ ough preparation for their work the
expert machinist or electrician
makes for his. Men who think about
their work and profit by all that has
been discovered concerning it. When
good, their services will be in de-
mand at prices that will allow them
to become land owners themselves
Young men, practically all other pro-
| LESSONS are crowded. This is your
opportunity to make good for your
self, to benefit your country and to
place the farming industry on the
plane It should occupy. Do not think
you are qualifying for a work that is
| unpopular. The educational institu-
| tons of the country realize the inpor-
lance of agricultural education, and
are getting ready to meet the de-
mands of the country. If you want
TO take up a work that will prove re-
mune alive in financial way, | want
to urge upon you to take advantage
of the opportunity open to you. Do
not expect to step into this work
without preparation. You could not
hope to get position as manager of
\ railroad, manufacturing plant or
big business house without special
training Neither can you hope to
take up this character of work with
out the same thorough training, but
with it you can command a salary
commensurate to your worth. The
( farmers who are succeeding today
IRE the farmers who think about
their work and learn all they can
ABOUT it. If you are looking for an
opportunity I have pointed it out to
you. Have you the capacity to grasp
while it is open to you?