Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-05
WESTERN FARMERS
Why They Make More and Work Less
+" Than We DO. s9r

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i Why They Make More and Work Less
4 Than We %. 3,i''
BY Clarence Poe.
am going to stop right in the mid
die Of my northwestern CO operation
stories to say something about north
western farming. For the fact Is, that
the first essential to cooperative mar
keting is to have something to mar
ket, and II a man will not adopt pro-
gressive methods In, the farm work he
is already doing. there is not much
hope that he win adopt progressive
Y methods in the marketing work he
may do some other time. 81. g. 5sijY5
The fact Is, that these western far
mers. apart from their cooperative
activities. are making more money
than we are making. and with less
worthless muscular labor. ~
For double reason therefore,. 1t
'behooves US to find ont how they are
doing this. We should like to get the
increased profits they are getting.
even with our present amount of 4 la
bor; and we should also like to re-
duce the proportion OF fatiguing labor
on the farm. sfto3is,s. .rf \, 5las..s
The answer to this riddle Is the an
swer that I have frequently given In
the Progressive Farmer; namely, that
these western farmers are running
their brains with from two to four
horse power, while we are running
ours with one rse-power This is
an age of machinery. To such an ex-
tent is this true that II has been es-
timated that the, interyentfons and
discoveries In use In the world today
(chlefiy improved machinery. increase
the average mans productive power
twelve fold. That Is to say, the man
who makes adequate use of improved
implements and machinery and scien-
tific knowledge. can accomplish as
great results as he could accomplish
with eleven slaves working for him In
the primitive stage Of society.
We cannot be too often reminded.
therefore. that this Is an age OF ma
chInery and that the man or the people
who neglect to avail, themselves OF its
Labor saving and money making ad-
yyantages. simply condemn themselves
| to poverty iunrewarded toil. ana gem
eral backwardness. 81 - Il
L Moreover. while have inst said that
| the western farmer runs his brain with
from two to four horse-power while
we in the south run ours with one
horse power, ] am reminded that when
DIR. Butler looked up the census facts
he found that neither Tor the farm
workers In the Caroiinas and Virginia,
nor for the farm workers in Alabama,
Louisiana and Mississippi, was there
an average of even one horse apiece
there were not enough horses and
mules to average one apiece for each
farm worker whereas I'm Iowa and In
diana and nlinois.5 typical western
states thefe were between three. and
four horses apiece for. each and every
farm worker tn the entire territory.
And then the census showed Quite
naturally indeed, that the average farm
workers In these western states using
three to four horses, cultivated sixty
| three acres. while the farm workers In
Alabama. Louisiana and Mississippi
cultivated ON AN average only sixteen
acres. ana I'm the caroIinas ana yir-
efnia. only twenty two acres apiece.
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Hoo, IN WISCONSIN is a woman Ire
marked to Professor tTJibbard. q, sThe
only peopIe see doing any 'hoeing are
q few women here and there in gar
dens.e Don't YOU do any hoeing at all?'
"Hoeine Ia almost unknown" was
the replv .Back In Iowa I remember
,bat ono man aid hoe a little f,eld. But
ha uo. an excant,on once cultivat-
"A s,,v ocros of corn bv myself-and.
80 cc,r.e .vor Cant do that with hoe
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"re,l me your methods of cultivating