The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-05
EDUCATION
And Business Methods Succeed
Best in the Pursuit of
Agriculture.


4 those with merely a common schoo.
j education, and those who start earliest
make the most profits, according e
4 the Department of Agriculture's in
vestigators The departments ofhc+s
1 of farm management has been con
\ Quoting a series OF Investigations II
h the corn belt.r which have brough
out many details that should be
Il practical value to all agrtculturists
These results have just been published
IN a new bulletin.
Under average conditions thu
farm, according to this bulletin, is M
| Mace for the weak or for those un
able to direct work The man who in
tends to spend his working life in tn
country should start early, for success
L is not gained in a moment but by many
years of persistent effort. It Is tru,
that some farmers have made sinai
fortune IN a short time, but this II
usually through a phenomenal rise IL
4 land values. Few men have become
rich from the real profits of the land
Those who have done so usually need
ed a lifetime in which TO work
Through skill in management and b!
hard labor comfortable living am
moderate profits may be expected
Those persons who are turning to tn
farm with the idea of reaping large
II incomes are doomed to severe dis
appointments
Il Those making the poorest incomes
\ we're overweight years of age When-
4 they started farming and were past
4 thirty when they became owners. Or
! the average the Oldest men are making
the least profits.
| Many farmers with very little
| schooling succeed. but these same men
/ would do better If they had the oppor-
tunity of further training. No ono
1 ever hears farmer regret that ne
spent a part of his early Efe In school
Those men having the best training
made the largest incomes. although
| they were materially helped in doing
| this by much larger farms and greater
I Profitable Farming Keeps the Boy on
! the Farm.
! Farming is a business the same as
1 any other industry and until our
i schools teach some of the fundament-
! al principles governing profitable
work elsewhere Considering that
I the farm boys of today viii be the
\ farmers of tomorrow, too little atten-
\ ton is given to their training.
Many boys leave the farm because
they see no future in it. Another I'M
| portant reason is the lack OF pronta-
| BILE work at home. A moderate sized
1
.ment to the farmer and his sons The
small firm does not provide Work;
hence. the boys must find employment
elsewhere. Let them fully under
stand how farm profits and losses are
made and there will be an incentive to
remain. First make our farms prohta-
| Bile. and the question OF keeping the
boys there will solve Itself.
Successful farming is an endiVldual'
economic problem. The farm Is a
Ecombination OF enterprise, and their
individual organization viii determine
in a. large measure, it's profita bleness
Sufficient area and proper organlza-
ton of well-seIected farm enterprises
TO permit the maximum use OF men
horses and machinery, are the essen
tial characteristics of the most sue
e9 Size OF the Farm Business.
| No one expects small grocery
store which has only few customers
a day to be a great financial success.
The total amount of business is IN
suficien. to earn the operator SUD
stantiaI income. Exactly the same
is true with the small farm. The vol
urne of business is limited By the area
I in crops and the capital invested me
small farm furnishes a home as Wen
as much of the produce consumed by
the family. If it were not for these
/ factors the men on the small area
would hardly be able to live.
| wages are a reward for labor, and
If a farm does not provide work the
nav must be correspondingly small
/ The family size farm, which in. the corn
| heIt should be above 100 acres, is UNI
| ouestionabIy a more efficient unit than
an area of forty acres or less. Crops
| can be grown cheaper. labor VIII be
! better paid, and the farmer and his
family will enjoy more OF the dement's
of modern civilization
Quality Of the Farm Business.
The farmer may have sufficient area
| and grow the right kind of crops, yet
| mot be successful. owing to the poor
/ quality of his entire business. Poor
| crops that do not pay the cost of pro-,
| duction, and the feeding OF these TO
unproductiva stock, are common
] causes of failure This characteristic
/ of unsuccessful farming attracts mneh
| nllF1lic attention. Such farms aEe llR-
| profitable largely through Ignorance
ar indfference on the part of the
I operator Under good management
they can generally be made success
full,
1 Improper organization o. large
/ farm limits its possibilities. Just as
area limits the small farm. single
4 crops or single live stock enterprises
4 seldom utilize farm labor to its max
1 imum. BY having several crops there
ia not only better distribution OF LABOR,
| hut the chances OF total loss from
crop failures are lessenef FORUM