Oxford Democrat., 1915-03-02
Work-Sure the Farmer Works.
IT'S INTELLIGENT WORK THAT ADDS
THE PROFIT.

The farm is the place for work, anC
the more intelligent work that is applied
to the soil and it's products, the greater
will be the financial rewards.
There are all kinds of farmers living
on all kinds of farms, but I cannot think
of one who is not a tiller of the soil. A
good many well meaning farmers have
been mining their soil instead of con
serving il. But even they cannot dig i,
lout and burn il or smelt il or wear il or
eat it or sell it for any human purpose
whatever. 1t is strictly a raw product to
| which labor must be added before il has
any commercial value.
And that is why farmers, working in
harmony with nature, turn their soil in
TO grain and hay, for this first labor.
product of the land can be sold and the
money used to buy many human com.
forts and Injuries.
Corn and hay when fed to animals
must make profit for the feeder or he
could not long keep il up. When the
soil-tiiler sells his crops to himself as a
feeder of livestock, he reaps an addition
al benefit (or be should) without mate
rally increasing the running expenses of
his plant.
MORE WORK, MORE PAY
When he keeps high-grade dairy COVE,
there is an extra profit (under keen farm
management because milk and butter
take away very little soil fertility and
this is big saving il we are thinking of
staying on the farm for a number Of
years instead of robbing it for little
while and then running away. When
milk or butter is put up 10 attractive
form and sold direct to ths consumer
(more and more labor being added to
each operatiop), still larger returns are
made.
The same is true of swine. Labor
spent in caring for aud improving the
blue-ribbOn hogs is usually profitable
because the demand is great and the
supply comparatively small. As high as
forty cents pound live weight is fire.
queptly paid for well-bred boar or
young gilt.
The same principle operates to boost
the farmers bank account when he
raises fine horses instead of plugs. II
any body tells you it costs no more to
grow $1,000 horse, or even $3.50
horse, than q skate, you tell him he
never raised the good ones or he is .
plain truth twister. II does cost more
to breed aud bring TO maturity prize
winner, and that is precisely why it pays
the man with initiative. Competition
in brains never was very strong
"there's always room at the top'-but
competition in muscle makes Industrial
slaves. Take this home and try it on
your saw buck.
An egg is worth from one to three
cents if "strictly fresh" The day it
patches, out pops twelve cents worth of
chicken. When it is four pound roost-
or II may fetch fifty cents. Sterilize the
young cockerel and in less than ten
months you will have ten pound capon
worth 81 so. You increase profits every
time you add labor backed up by sound
Judgment.
The writer at one time MIXED thirty
cows and fed the buttermilk to passel
of shoats. 1t was great fun to watch
those greedy fellows gobble up the milk.
After the experiment stations had turn
ed loose few facts, learned that my
pigs paid me only one or two cents a
gallon for that buttermilk Then after
some more reading and asking questions
found out that city folks are crazy
about buttermilk il it is good. Better
put il in caps, 50 you'll get the straight
of II. IN u,nat ha uon1