The Nevada County picayune., 1915-01-01
By c. 0. Carpenter, Assistant Agricul-

By (. o. Carpenter, Assistant Agricul-
 turst For Iron Mountain Railroad.
 The grayest criticism against the ploy the farmer and his work stock for sufficient number of the working days in the year 10 enable him to SC cure a living income. No man. no matter what his business, can make q success whom he works at that bus mess as little fime as does the aver age actual producer of cotton This farmer may add some to his income by hauling wood, but he can no more expect 10 be d success as a farmer than can the merchant, banker or pro fessional man who leaves his business 10 cut wood Most people who sue ceed at farming as well as any other business. are those who peg away at that business for full three hundred and siXty-flve days in the year.
 The average one-horse cotton farm CT will not work in his crop more than 75 days. while his horse will work but siSty-fve. The average man
 
 gathered on Arkansas farms by MT. A. D. McNair, will cultivate fifteen acres of cotton and fifteen acres of corn. This crop will require an aver age of 130 days labor by the farmer, l02 days by hired labor. and 9l days by the team. At the average rate of production this farm would produce S3O0 worth of cotton and $1S0 worth of corn gross total income of s4S0. or S37S for the farm, after the outside labor is paid. The team in this sys- tenn will not pay for it's keep by the work done on the farm, for it is esti mated that the lowest average cost of keeping a team on farm is S100.
 By practicing three-year rotation of cotton, corn and oats and hay, the farmer would cultivate 221a acres per mule, or A acres in all He would work 150 days in his crop, would re quire hired man for 14o days, and his team would work 135 days The farm will produce an equal amount of cotton and corn, and 500 worth of oats and $lS0 worth of hay, d gross total of $S60, which. after deductinR the hired labor. would leave a farm income of s720.
 Four Year Rotation Best.
 With four-year rotation system, including cotton. peas or soy beans. corn and oats and hay, there would be thirty acres in cultivation for each horse. or sixty in all The team would work l62 days in the year, the farmer 194 days. and hired labor l5l days The income would include an additional $2oo for the pea or soy bean crop and amount to a gross to- tal Of $1o60, which. less the hired la bor cost. would leave $906 for the farm income The labor income would. of course. be much lower.
 These figures are not intended to giEe a system for any farm They are merely succestive. and are not as theoretical as might appear to some people. for they were taken from ac- tual work on farms in the state. They point to how the farmer can increase ;he farm income simply by planning the work of himself and team SO that they can work few more days in the field. The additional income that might be gained from live stock grown on the feeds produced and on pas lures has not been taken into con sideraton. Such live stock would add materially 10 the income It is an un- fortunate fact, however that many of the people of the state have not as yet come to a realization that a pig will grunt and grow and a COW give milk on the days when the owner cannot work in the field.