French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-04-06
MAKING a MILLION FROM
A PARCEL POST FARM:

Nisqually, Wash, March 25.-The
fact that a L. Brown is a millionaire
cuts little figure in the inspiring story
OF how he developed his ''pracel post
farm" here.
He's a farmer, first of all. conpet-
ing with his nelghbors and perform
ing more actual work on his 2.60O-acre
ranch than any of his hands. His
wealth is Incidental.
Twelve years ago he was "a burr
lawyer" as he puts it, in Seattle. The
/ country drew him like a magnet. He
went out as a greenhorno employing &
g~reenhorn manager.
Because" he explains, 81 didn't
want my manager to know any more
about armlng than / did,
He borrowed the money for his
ranch start, and bought LOO acres,
| mostly overflow salt swamps, with
I only 90 acres under cultivation.
Show Farm of Vest
Today his place is a show farm OF
the West, and a big money maker.
Most of the 1900 acres, to which it
has grown, are under intensive cult
walton. There are 500 dairy cattle; SO
work horses; 1900 hogs, and 1000
chickens.
A big creamery and a $4,000 pack
ing house nave been built.
The tarm activities are conducted'
by departments-cattle, hog, poultry
etc.-each with its manager; and SO
energy and initiative, carry on the
work.
This gigantic institution of men and
machinery centefs finally on the par
Gel post through which now 80 per
cent of the products are sold, and
which, Brown believes, will shortly be
the marketing medium for his entire
outfit.
Every chicken every COW, every pig,
and horse, as we'll as every square
foot of ground, must pay it's proper
ton of profit, based on the amount OF
Tie total Investment it represents.
And because of the system employ
&c, Brown knows any day in the year
whether hen No. 1924 IS making good
and paying her way, and whether COW
Nc. 1907 is. paying interest On her
stable and cost of feed.
No Guess Work.
: There is 60 guess work, nothing
hepEazard. DiVersification has been
brought to a sc4ence by A. L. Brown
who II years ago quit being a bum
lawyer" to become a crackerjack
7 farmer.
Beginning with a few cattle, he
found that hogs were needed to utilize
waste products. Thousands Of gallons
OF skim milk today form a big staple
in feeding 1900 hogs. Chickens had to
come to help swell profits of the cattle
and hog departments by using up 9TH
erWise waste products.
The pennies saved thus began to
mount into hundreds OF dollars.
Neighbors laughed at him, calling
him the bookkeeping farmer" But
while they We're sleeping or grumbling,
Brown was reading government buIle-
tins. organizing, thinking, getting out
Of the beaten ruts.
Today those neighbors sell their
. hogs to Browns packing house, and
tnelr chickens to his poultry depart
ment. They are little further along
than they We're IL months ago when
browns ranch was a marsh.
A. Tab on Everything.
System" explained Brown. Keep
: ing close tab on every animal, on every
bit of feed and production on the place.
By very simple bookkeeping any far
mer can determine whether or not his
cows, chickens and hogs, his corn or
oats acreage, are profitable.
"Then by wedding out the poor
stock, by experimenting with cheaper
feeds; by c~ul1iSating more closely, by
5 cutting out all the little wastefUl
: drains that the ordinary farmer al
4oWS TO go unchecke'i and energetic
: man can do on his own place what we
have done here
Brown. II, is no longer a green
r morn. Government experts ara watch
ing hIs place carefully. The things ne
{ S doing have Z vital bearing on '5n!
) development everywhere.-Jack jung
) meyer in Charlotte Observer.