Meade County news., 1914-11-12


know what is good business, are turn
ing TO farm lands with their super
iiuous money. In Chicago today, the big
men of wealth own farms and are
proud of them Many Of them live in
the country and are as much tillers OF
the soil as your Indiana or Kansas
farmer. The same is true in New
York, Pittsburgh, st. Louis, Indianap.
oils, Omaha, and, in fact, all the great
cities of the nation. The point is that
these men are experts in invest
ment-who know how how to place
their money where 1t is safe and
where it will yield the best returns.
As is we'll known, John d. Rockefeller
spends most of his time in the country.
He loves the outdoor life and, though
often alluded to by the uniformed as
an invalid, he is hale and hearty.
Rockefeller is living on borrowed time
and his propensity for out-of-door ex-
istence accounts for his ruggedness
after long life fraught with strenu.
GUS experiences.
Packers Are Farmers.
Samuel Insul, president of the Com
monwealth Edison Company and mas
ter of the elevated railways and sur
face lines of Chicago, lives Oh farm
northwest Of the city. He hurries
away from his office each day and
devotes an hour or two OF his
time to the details of his great coun-
try estate. He keeps himself familiar
with every department of activity on
the farm and there is no agricuIturist
in America who knows his farm better
than Insul knows his. Most of the
big packers live on farms.
Many OF the railroad presidents and
heads Of the city's banking institutions
are also practical farmers John j.
Mitchell, president Of the Illinois
Trust q Savings bank and power in
the, financial affairs OF America, ia a
farmer At Lake Forest and Lake
Geneva there are vast colonies Of city
farmers hundreds Of them in fact
colonies Of farm homes owned and oc-
eupied by Chicsgo's leading business
men.
One Of the niilionaires of the city
and there are not as many real mil.
IenalLes in Chicago RS some peo,
pie would Think -Hfade the boast. the
other day to-. sorne OF his business
friends that he had picked the three
best Investments in America.
What. are they" asked a friend.
Three farms" he replied.
Any time man buys farm he is
making the best investment that 1t is
possible to get"
The speaker was H. W. Gossard,
president Of H. W. GoSsard Company.
Farm at MartinsviiIe, Ind.
Il have one farm at Martinsville.
Ind, another at Pratt, Kan, and an
other at Craig, Colo, and it is going
to be the ambition OF my life to make
them as fine as any three farms can
be made, And I am going to make
them profitable as we'll as pleasurable.
You know farm Is simply a manu-
featuring business. You manufacture
products of all kinds. Your problems
are to get your stuff manufactured as
cheap as possible and then sell it to
the best advantage. You must see that
there are no waste places, that every
field and, in fact, every acre of ground
must bring forth its proportion OF
profits"
Mr.. Gossard's farm at Martinsville,
Ind, has already attracted widespread
attention. He recently erected there
a barn costing $4,000. On this farm
he is planning new strain of Eng.
lish hogs, and he has imported six
sows from England and winning
boar, Lord Bromley Manly, one of the
bestknown animals In this country
among Berkshire breeders. He also
has an original flock of Rhode Island
White chickens that have won many
prizes, and he is building up baby
chick business in which twenty.four-
hour-old chicks are sold at 25 cents
each, and shipped to all parts of the
country. In addition, the place has on it
some fine blooded horses which have
taken several ribbons.
Kansas and Colorado Farms.
Mr.. Gossard has northumberland
farm at Pratt, Kan. II is in the great
wheat belt and he says he considers it
one of the best investments he ever
made in his life.
At Craig, Colo he has recently pur-
chased 1000 acres OF land. This prop
erty contains wonderful coal deposits.
and Mr. Gossard says that it is in
creasing in value so rapidly that he
cannot keep up with it. He is plan
ming to put 1t In stock and ship to the
Denver market.
And what has been said of MIR. Cos
sard can be said of many wealthy and
successful business men. Rapidly they
are learning the value of farms, and
they take genuine pleasure In develop