The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-20
Business Methods Count in Farming
Also High School Education Says the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture
= ARMERs with high school edu


those who start earliest make the most
profits, according to the Department OF
Agriculture s investigators. The De.
partment's Office of Farm Manage
ment has been conducting series of
Investigations in the corn belt which
have brought out many details that
should be Of practical value to all agri-
culturists. These results have Just been
published in a new bulletin.
Under average conditions the farm.
according to this bulletin, is no place
for the weak or for those unable to
direct work. The man who intends to
spend his working life in the country
should start early, for success is rot
gained in moment but by many years
OF persistent effort. 1t is true that
some farmers have made small fortunes
in short time, but this is usually
through a phenomenal rise in land
values. Few men have become rich
from the real profits of the land. Those
who have done so usually needed life.
time in which to work. Through skill
IN management and by hard labor a
comfortable living and moderate profits
may be expected. Those persons who
are turning to The farm with the idea
OF rcaping large incomes are doomed
to severe disappointment.
Those making the poorest incomes
were Is years Of age when they started
farming and were past 80 when they
became owners. On the average the old
est men are making the least profits.
Mary farmers with very little school
ing succeed, but those same men would
do better if they Lad the opportunity
of further training, No one ever hears
a farmer regret that he spent part of
his carly life in school
In a LIST Of .i3 farms operated by
owners and 2l7 farms operated by ten
ants there wcre caly eight men, four
owners and four tenants. who never
had school training, OF the owners
and tenants II per cent attended com
mon or district school, About IS per
cent attended high school, and one
out of every 35 went to college or to
some institution of similar grade.
On the whole the tenants had received |
moro education than the owners, 90 per |
cent Of them having more than dis |
trict school education, while only 20 per |
cent of the owners had such training
Those men having the best training
made the largest incomes, although they
were materially helped in doing this
by much larger farms and greater capi
ial.
Profitable Farming Keeps the Boy on
tho Farm.
Farming is business the same as
my other industry, and until our
schools teach some of the fundamental
principles governing profitable farm
ng, the farm boy is likely to seek work
elsewhere. Considering that the farm
,oys of today will be the farmers Of
omorrow, too little attention is given
o their training.
Many boys leave the farm because
hey see no future in it. Another i'm
'ortant reason is the lack Of profitable
work. at home. A moderate sized farm
$ necessary to give employment to the
armer and his sons The small farm
oes not provide work. hence, the boys
lust find employment elsewhere. Let :
hem fully understand how farm profits
nd losses are made and there will be .
n incentive to remain. First Lake
UT farms profitable, and the question
f keeping the boys there will solve !
self.
Successful farming is an individual, D.
conomic problem. The farm is COM {
ination Of enterprises, and their in
ividual organization will determine, in !
large measure, its profitableness. =
efficient area and a proper organiza- !;
on Of well selected farm enterprises
, permit the maximum use Of men,
orses and machinery, are the essen !
al characteristics of the most success :,
IL farms.
Size of the Farm Business.
No one expects a small grocery a
ore which has only few customers a 8
~ to be great financial success. n
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