The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-27
Farms Are Backbone
OF County's Wealth

In every community of Wayne coun-
ty and in remoter localities are farm
ers who have ben encouraged TO dem
onstrate the truths that science has
proven 10 be possible of accomplish
ment
Men ignorant to the extent of never
having learned 10 read or write have
been shown how to increase their
crops yield many fold. which has en-
abled them to enjoy the comforts that
On increased earning power affords.
They have been taught the superior
value of good blood in hogs and cat
tie, how to feed and care for their
live stock when sick, induced to grow
" hat was required to feet their fam
lilies and domestic animals, and to i'm
prove the home life.
More intelligent farmers have been
induced to improve their live stock, TO
purchase good brood mares and breed
them to good sires taught the value Of
crop rotation and diversification, and
the value and breeding of pure seed.
How it is possible to grow wheat in
spite of the fly, and prevent death from
cholera in hogs by innoculation with
serum.
Requires Work.
On who has no love for teh coun-
try and feels no pleasure in the occu-
patton of farming has no place on the
farm today, and mistaking the call
back to the farm" as an allurement
to life of ease and comfort wa
labor, many people unsuited for ia
rigors of pioneering have made the
mistake of buying land for farming
in this section.
The profits in farming are substan-
tial. but seldom large, and are assured
only as result of close personal at
tention, careful economy and persist
ent effort.
Diyersification of crops is essential
to permanent and prosperous agri-
, culture, and this diversification should
exit on the individual farm as we'll as
in the community as whole.
The greatest economies in argicul-
tural production are secured not
where specialization is practiced, but
where diversification of crops permits
the most uniform and continuous en-
ployment of labor, and where the larg-
er proportion Of the NEEDED food sup
ply is produced at home.
TITO educate the farming classes in
scientific agriculture is the aim of the
u6nOnStTdllOn "OTh, tudt Lue pIOllIS
may be doubled and far more than
doubled by better methods of farm
ing.
Fine Breeds of Cattle.
With the orchardist and general
crop farmer has come the live stock
raiser from the prairies of the West,
introducing Hereford, Pole and other
pure breeds of cattle. With these have
also come the purest breeds Of hogs
and sheep, the percheron, coach and
like breeds of horses, to form the
foundation of an enduring live stock
industry.
The pure-bred Jersey, Guernsey,
Holstein and other high class mich
COWS are in increasing demand, be-
cause of their known superior quail
ties AS an accompaniment to the in
PRODUCTION of these blue bloOds of the
animal kingdom, and as a proven econ
omy has also come the silO, in which
to store the succulent corn crop for
which all farm animals will leave the
sweetest hay.
All parts of the country today are
visited by agents of the Department
of Agriculture who are bringing about
a revolution in farming practices and
ting that the lands Of In
diana are capable of greater produc-
ton than any other section of the
country. 1t is now conceded officially
that it is the Middle West that our ma
ton must look to in the future for its
food supply.