The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-04-27
Average Per Acre on 100 Shown TO
Be $50, But $14.50 Through
Better Cultivation.
HTS PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
States We Are Educating Children
Along Lines of No Use Later in
Their Life.

During the course of his address
Wednesday night, J. ]. Hill presented
some figures tending to show that in
tensive cultivation brings better re-
suits than extensive. Mr.. Hill said
IN part: II made a calculation this
evening and 1 have it right here. One
great trouble is that farmers try to
bite OH more than they can chew.
They want to cultivate more land
than they are able. Take the man on
160 acres, and let us assume that
with his Indifferent way of cultivat-
ing it, that his seed, cultivation, har-
vestlng and threshing and marketing
will cost him Sc an acre, and am
not far out of the way. That would
amount to 1850. If we take an ay-
erage of the state of Minnesota.
which would be thirteen bushels of
wheat to the acre, that would give
him 1850 bushels at, say, ninety
cents bushel, and that would give
him $1,S72. Deduct $3.50 and he has
1912 for his crop. If he does his
own work, he is entitled to pay for
his own time and his team, just the
same asn he hired It z.sszz-zsz
With proper selection Of seed.
with proper cultivation, he should
have twenty-five bushels of wheat to
the acre, and on q we'll cultivated
farm, that is small yield. Why
should we be satisfied, with a COM
paratively new soil as we have in
Minnesota, with twenty-five bushels
to the acre, when England, on land
that has been cultivated for 1000
years, gets thirty-four, Holland thir-
ty-four or thirty-fiv and Denmark
forty-two to forty-seven.
"Take twenty-five bushels on
eighty acres, he will, at ninety cents
a bushel, get $1,000. 1 make him
spend 50 an acre more. The seed
doesn't cost him any more It doesn't
cost him any more to- harvest. But
want him to spend So more in the
cultivation and charge him up with
$S an acre and that leaves SLIGO.
The man cultivating the 100 acres
gets S5.75 an acre and the man Gull
tivating the 80 acres gets $14.50 an
acre profit above the costs of doing
the work, and if he does it himself
and he can do more of it on 80 acres
than he can on 16O he is more inde-
pendent and he has 80 acres left for
pasture or summer farrow or what
ever else
"I was talking with a friend of
mine yesterday. He has quite a large
factory in st. Paul and one in st.
Cloud. He employs a lot of people
who want to live at home with their
parents, but he said he was begin
ming to have difficulty in finding
young people to work in the factor
les. We are having difficulty in find
ing the help we want and we may
have to start somewhere else. It is
not new thing, but is practically
an every day occurrence that there is
more work than there are people to
take the places, and still we are in
our public school system, trying to
educate many Of our young people to
an extent and on lines that when
they leave the schools, most of what
they have learned is of little value to
them.
Raps Public School System.
Il was talking to our comptroller
the other day and said, Where do
you get the young people for your
counting Department. He has any
where from eight to nine hundred.
How many of them are from the
high school?' WELL he said; sas a
matter of fact, we get very few from
the high school but we do get all we
want l said ewhy?' He said, eThey
don't bother us much. A great many
come and give them problem in
long division with divisor of three
or four figures, and as a rule that is
enough to discourage them. They
don't know, and they quit. and we
don't have any further trouble with
them.
The little red school house in the
country will do q lot better than that.
But here these young people are go
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