The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-10-10
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
OF PROSPERITY
By Douglas Malcolm Of The |. H. c.
Service Bureau


while there are others whom | call
breakers, the latter so called because
| know that there will be certain per-
iods of each year in which they will
have a break in their incomes. The
first always pay as they buy, while
look out that the second only buy as
they pay"
This merchant was not a farmer
himself, but he had grown rich doing
business with them and he knew the
financial standing and the farm me-
thods of every man in his community.
In little speech which he once made
he explained his endless chain theory:
EARNING" said he, 'enia.:s every law
of political economy ever mentioned
by John Stuart Mill. There is ur-
earned increment, a margin of utility,
the law of supply and demand, the
manufacturers profits, consumption
of raw material, plant depreciation,
and the labor question. Over some
of these economic principles the far
mer has present control, while over
others he has none. He can more or
less control raw materials, manufac-
turers' profits and plant depreciation
in fact, his success as farmer de-
ponds on the way he handles these
three factors. Taking the corn crop
for example, his raw material consists
of his corn and fodder, and his manu-
facturer's profits are determined by
the way his cattle and hogs turn this
raw material into marketable beet
and pork, and his plant depreciation
depends on the disposition he makes
of the humus in building up his soil.
4 farmer who sells his corn as ne
harvests it, leaving his fodder TO
shrivel up in the field, who gives no
thought of replacing the plant fodS
which each crop takes from the soil,
makes profit only from his raw ma
terial, and when that is sold his in
come ceases.
"On the other hand. the farmer who
saves his fodder. shredding it for the
NOV or choppinp it for his silo, has
chaan raw material Wherewith to feed
cattla and hogs who manufacture 1T
into butter fat. beef and bacon, the
sale If which brings il, steady all
ve.r income These in their turn pro-
vide fertilizer which next wear makes
tho coil richer. so that there is more
raw material for feed. more cattle and
bo@s f. sell more money constantly
non1ing in and So ON. wear after wear
These are what | cali endless chain
FARMERS, They are the ones who live
con,for+ahlv eniov farming. and send
thair hovs and GIRLS TO college"
Probablv the most comfortable far
mers of This country are the corn
rais;no farmers because. as the little
Hack dots on the government map
show thev have more hogs and more
cattIe ner capita than the others.
There are approximately 100000 900
acres of corn to be harvested this fall
The richest most productive crop
orr country Ilnows-and vet in con-
nec+;on with this harvest there is an
ennai probability that A fair per cen.
Of the yalue of this crop will be vast.
cd Sad as if is. it required centuries
"a find ont that from 30 to 40 per cent
of tha nutritive value of the corn is in
the stalk. leaves. and husks, and it
has not becn learned entirely vet that
even without a silo the corn stalks on
the farm when properlv shredded,
have - feeding value practically equal
n timothy hav and prairie grass and
a fertiliZinp value far in excess Of
either
Xii farmers do nor have silos. but
ft-~ctfinp. obeGsks are being erected.
moro and more are seeing the LIGHT
and each wear thousands of these pro.
The value of the corn stalk is being
widely advertised. but still there are
those who do NOT realize that if is the
finest auyiIiarv roughage when fed
with either ensiIage clover or al
falfa as a balanced mart of the grain
ration For instance. in a recent OK
neriment at the Agricultural College