The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
d. III. DOane, of Ag. College,
Says Man LabOrs 10 Won
an Ia Hours Daily
OUTLINES PRINCIPLES
OF FARM MANAGEMENT
Address is Given Before Normal
ROund-up-Dr Bagley
Speaks.

farm management last night were an
nounced by D. H. Dcare, head Of farm
bureau work of the State College Of
Agriculture, in an address last night
before the combined meeting Of South
east Missouri teachers, club women
ana highway builders at the Normal
School auditorium.
lr Doanc's address was as tech
meal as such a subject as farm man.
agcment might become and a crowd
that filled the entire auditorium listen
ed with a vast deal of interest
His address was followed by a lee
ture on the philosophy Of education or
rather teachers philosophy by Dr.
W. c. Bagley, of the University of
Illinois, in which he discussed the ques-
ton as to whether a teacher can de
terminc the efficiency of his work.
For successful farming, everyone
and everything must keep busy, Doane
declared. There is a general feeling
among farmers that they work hard
and that all animals and equipment
get about the maximum amount of la
Dor meted out to them.
"Thc horse on the farm works three
hours day on an average" the speak
81 declared. "That figure seems small,
but it has been aScertained by actual
data kept by our department at the
State University.
''Ihe farmer works to 10 hours a
day-almost a union scale. That is all
that he actually works, no matter how
long he is up. Farmers talk Of get
ting up so early.
"The farmers wife works from II
to - hours a day, and that is the re-
suit Of the same careful analysis we
have conducted Of farms in a certain
section Of this State.
There must be farm management
to make a success of farming. Farm
management is the correlation of the
various parts of farm in their proper
Pi'Poi tO!i' me i!iIS must not De Top
sided
There are four principles of farm
management that are almost essential
for successful farming.
First, we must have a good-sized
business. Second, We must have Z
good quality OF business-gOod stock,
good equipment, good fields and good
cultivation. Third, we must keep
everything busy, and fourth, we must
diversity.
"A farmer must have more than one
source OF income IN order to make the
best KIND Of success.
Nh Doane then showed by charts
how the larger sized farms make more
money Tor the farmer than the small
farms.
There IS vast deal Of talk Of small
but Well-tlIlcd farms. The larger farm
VIII make larger net return. The la
Dor income, etc, that which farmer
gets for his work after paying all ex-
pellSeS ana i've per cent interest on his
investment such Is any business man
VII do, IS found to be SAG on farms
of 10 acres and less. It is 1927 on
farms between 40 and so acres, and
f orhte large farms of 400 acres and
more, it is nearly $4,000 a year.
'The smaller farms have a greater
net income per acre, but on the larger
farms there are more profitable work
ing days in the year. And single
man on the big farm can handle far
more land than the SWAZILAND farmer"
He showed that for the greatest net
return on farm so far as investment
is concerned, the proper investment to
make is $50 an acre.
He also showed that farmers having