Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-10-29

There are many ways or systems o
farming. Some men like one and SOM
another, while others seem to farm with
out much regard to system. Withou
discussing any particular method, let MI
treat briefly that phase of farm manage
ment which makes for efficiency whicl
does things.
knew . farmer to take . long hal
day getting four hogs one and one quar-
ter miles to market, and he had three
men to help him load them. They pu
them into wagon without any fixing
to work with. They tried to drive then
up into stable, where they had neve
been, without any yard or fence to hold
them. After while they did 1t without
knowing how many pounds Of flesh they
ran of them.
In less time another man made two
trips three and one half miles to the
same market, taking q full wagon load
each time, and hs did 1t alone. Ht
quietly shut the gate to the yard, where
he fed them, backed his wagon up TO the
chute, drove them In and he was gone
1t cost one more to take four hogs
one and one-quarter miles to marke,
than 1t did the other twenty-four hogs
three aud one,half miles. Management
made the difference.
j asked neighbor, an old Civil wa.
veteran, II he was through hayiug.
"Yes," he said, "the boys are done.
They had my head to manage 1t or they
wouldn't have been done"
When was q young man before the
war, l taught school winters and worked
out on farm summers, and many times
could see where the work dragged be-
cause it was not managed we'll.
A person once asked my hired man II
he did not have to work "awful hard. "
He replied: "I never worked in q place
where I had it so easy or got 30 much
DONE"
An important factor in farm manage
ment is to do the right thing at the right
while the iron Is h0t."
You can make an impression on hot iron
easier than you can on cold iron. A
days work in the cornfeld now may be
worth three next week.
Management makes the farmer; and
want of it the laborer. Unless . man
can manage as well as work he had
better sell his farm, put bis money at
interest and work for man who can
manage. ! know an excellent farm
hand who saved money to buy Q team
and some tools; then took good farm
to work on shares, but he worked hard
or and got less than ever before. he
knew how to do all kinds OF farm work,
L L. NH 10 q 70
remember when was boy IN pio-
neer times In Michigan an ambitious
young farmer In debt on eighty acres OF
wild land. He broke himself down so
that be couldn't work much trying to
clear his heavy timber alone. Instead oil
getting a county office and moving into
town, or peddling lightning rods, ne
went in debt for another farm adjoining,
began to hire men and manage. In
few years he had one Of the largest and
best farms in the county all paid for.
His system OF farming Was not much
different from his neighbors'-no dairy
ing, no specializing, no registered stock,
no fancy prices for anything. he raised
Just wheat, sheep and hogs. Attention
to details and the volume OF 1t made him
rich. In old age he neither left nor rent
ed his farm, but occupied and managed
it as long as he lived.
"He that ruleth must rule with dill
gence." l noticed in the army slack
officers always made . slack regiment
with the best OF men. So on . farm
The manager wants his head with him;
his brains alive. He must be on his job
all the time, for bis men will not do
their work any better than he does his.
There must DO In New York State
splendid chances for capable young mer
to acquire comfort and competency In
farming. The prices I see farms adver-
tissd for look attractive, and II were
an ambitious young man wanting farm,
l would go East instead OF West.-L. U.
Drake, Michigan, in Tribune Farmer