The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-03

farm in the section whore he had cut
! the timber. but TO own the best farm
| that could be made anywhere. Emil
/ nent's less. the prize COW, is only one
| Of the distinctive successes Of hcr
owners efforts TO demonstrate ia the
! world that tho cut over. lands Of Of
| the Upper Michigan peninsula could
| bc and are being transformed into
/ productive farms. feeding n herd az
this time Of over 100 pure bred Jcr-
sevs, producing for the market and Of.
| fering an example Of what can be
| done In so-called country Of pine
As lumbermnn. prickett cut the
| pine and made the slashing As n
| farmer and dalryman he has built n
monument In the wilderness showing
what can be done. Roycruft farm
consists OF 400 acres Of cultivated
and pasture land. bringing il are
500 acres moro 20 he cleared from
slash and stumps as may be required
from year 10 year Tho buildings and
bans are all models of the best and
most approved methods adapted to
farming ana dairyng. M This have
been created within a period Of eight
years.
Walter s. Prickett Is not a dream
or. lie is more OF the type Of the
controlling class of square ana firm
jawed men, the kind Of men who cv-
orywherc i'm the world do things. Roy
croft farm is no fanciful playthinp of
a rich man. 1t requires peculiar tai
ent and business gift 10 design a sys-
tenn which brings TO an accounting
every producing and consuming agency
on a i00-aCre farm, from the milk fed
chickens 10 fun bloOdcd Jerseys, but
this is what Prickett possesses. When
a consignment of stale bread from the
bake shops Of CHICAGO Is shipped 90
him and il is mixed with tho milk
from his own dairy and fed To- incu-
bator bred hens. he has a right TO eX-
poet results. If the results are not
what he expects. ne traces out tho
causes OF failure and corrects them.
He makes farming a business ana tho
business pays him.
Columns could well he written about
Prickett and what he is doing With
Roycroft farm. Less than eight years
ago the location was a mass OF olu
pine stumps and tangled slashings and
underbrush. To-day tho fun bloodcd, (
pedisreed Jerseys bred on this farm
are sold i'm every part of the Uniteu
States, and it's food products find their
way IL the Chicago Consumers under
special labels attesting their parity !
and excellence. The owner has n pur- |
pose ana has made that purpose pay |
Applies Book knowledge.
While Roycloft farm is the show
place in the upper peninsula of Mich |
igan for demonstrated agricultural
achievement, back of it all is the man
OF keen business ability. applying 7
scientific as well as modern methods /
i'm the conduct of its affairs. He is n .
book farmer I'm that Prickctt reads /
what Gov. Hoard and other men have /
to say about dairying. He is a prac- /
tical farmer in that ne makes a sem
sible application of what he reads. I
measuring its uses to his own situa- /
ton and needs.
Md with it an and through 1t ali is I
the man who has made it. The inn |
press and influence Of no mere tenn
pOrary achievement. but an example .
Of something substantial and perma-
ncnt. PriCkett has built something,
created something out in the wilder
ness of pine slashinGs. Roycroft farm
with its Jerseys feeding i'm the fields,
and the crimson and gold of a late
October days sunset adding to the
pastoral picture is but the completion
of an epoch which had it's beginning
when the lordly pine fell as the first
tribute To the axe Of the lumberman.
The long interval between represents
lost opportunity, economic and indus
trial waste ana neglect. Prickett has
done what thousands of others should
have done years ago.
II may be urged that Roycroft farm
could not have been made without
money. 1t is true this farm could not
have been developed i'm the time that
it was cleared and improved without
money, nor is II written about here as
a type of the farm within the scope
Of the average man To SECURE in this
section. Forty and eighty acre farms.
however can be secured just as fer
tile and productive under intelligent
as is Roycroft farm.
Every farmer cannot own the champ
onship Jersey COW i'm the world nor
raise milk-fed chickens for the mar
<et. The usual crops can be and are
'aised by the average farmer and the
point Ia he made in speaking about
Roycroft farm is to show the possi-
oilities of this section.
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