Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1914-04-02

iN FARMING,


By Karl Lagenbeck.
CONFERENCE.-The farmer is
n wholesale producer like the man
ufacturer, TO succeed in business.
he must be guided by his principles.
A manufacturer does not try to run
q plant that is too large for his cap
itai or his energies. III he has one
that he finds too big for these, he
rents out part of his building and
his power. He saves his strength
and gains time for better supervi-
vision. He concentrates and most
farmers should do the same. But,
few of them feel they can cut Gown
their acre@SG, the crops, the animal
and milk yield are none too big as
il is. That is true, but one and
one-half times the labor now put on
twenty-five acres and n half the
money value of such labor put into
the one chemical that improves soil
permanentlylime, will make them
produce as much as seventy acres as
ordinarily cultivated. In other
words, two-thirds the cost of work
ing the present average farm will
get the produce out of one that is
One-third the size. Less pay for
help, reduced taxes and more energy
TO tend stock, repair fences, tools
and buildings, will make the con-
centration pay.
USE OF A Coop NAME-A well
worked farm, no matter how small,
increases n mans reputation and
reputation means credit. Like
everything else, credit improves with
use. Il is hara for any man to get
his first loan. II il easier after he
has paid the first one promptly. No
manufacturer and no farmer can get
along who does not make and use
credit. II is the bankers business
TO End money and loan it to him to
work with. But in making loans,
he sizes mp the man as well as the
security. He prefers a tidy pro-
ductive property and a man with
the sense not to wear himself out.
CONCEALED FERTILILY-Even
poor land has much fertility locked
mp in it. BY working only a sufii-
cient part, which responds best to
work. and aiding the work chemi-
cally with the fertility developer,
lime, you concentrate your plant. :"
Let the rest of the land go, rent il
or sell it off. If manure il INSULT
cient, you must make nitrogen and
humus in the soil with the use of
legumes or clover. But, the man
who sOws clover seed mt 90 to $40
n bushel, without lining, throws
away his money. Every farmer
knows this, or should know it by
now, but few do it. II is useful to
help out with phosphates and potash
when tillage and reasonable lining
do not develop enough in the soil
for q good crop. But, buying all
the crops needs of these is extrava-
giant waste. The man who makes
the excuse that the season is wet
and late, labor scarce and that there
il no time TO spread lime now, but
will leave it for next year, and for
this attempts to improve fertility
with a useless fertilizer, gives away
to the worst habit. There will be
just rs many reasons next year for
avoiding the troublesome" but
necessary job of lining. The man
who feels that he cannot afford to |
buy lime or go into debt for it,
withholds the soil improver
that maintains fertility. A lime
debt is good debt. Every well
informed rural banker knows that a |
farm worked regularly to maintain
its fertility and not to get an ex-
ceptional bumper crop sacrificing |
future productiveness, is the safest
collateral. Money borrowed for
labor and lime is a good soil in
vestment for their efforts extend |
beyond the season.