Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-15
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. X.-Makng tn
BY Frederi J. HaSkin.

UTAsHINGToN. D. c. April 21-When the grain
wv and cotton standards established by law
under discussion. the secretary of ag-
riculture pointed that they were needed because the
rarely knew what he selling while the
buyer always knew what he was buying As usual the
man with the knowledge got the best of the bargain
1t was a rare thing according Secretary Houston,
a farmer the grade of cotton he had on
his wagon. The who bought it always knew; ana
he often bought it one grade and sold 1t as better
one corresponding profit Prices the best corn
were N grade of number three or better
farmer who raised number number one. got
no benefit good farming. Down in the south
big business is done in sheep pelts and
goat skins, skins classified in different grades
nd grades worth twice much as others
it is always the buyer who knows absolutely
grade skin belongs and the grower is large
" dependent his honesty. In word. the man who
produces does know much about business as the
who buys his goods
This state OF affairs must changed. The whole
campaign for better farming the broadcast
campaign to make farm life attractive Only by
building up an farm life enough people
induced stay the farm to produce the nation
food and keep down prices And one Of the most at
things about business Is the money to be
made out Of IT.
How to make farming pro htabe as it ought to be
in view OF the capital and labor is really
big economic problem of the country The matter
grades standards is only detail Of the ques
phase been largely solved by the estab-
lishment Of legal standard grades for all grain and
cotton shipped in interstate commerce. deal with
the problem all phases object of the federal
office Of farm cement which has been granted
s2sSOOo for the coming year to continue its work
Lest it be said that all the farmer ought &c
know more about his own business than the men IN
government that there is usually wide
theory practice the office of farm
points that It Is going to the farmers them
selves to study methods Here and there IN
every community you will find farmer who gets big
ger crops than the all around him. who has worked
methods of his II has become al
most an axiom with experts that II all American
farmers the best farmers the
agriculture of nation would be revolutionized pro-
duction would go up prices would go down.
The office Of farm has been studying the
business angles Of farmng-the best size Of farm the
best crops to plant, how many horses and cows the
farmer should keep how many hogs he should raise
pays better rent farm or buy one and
similar questions Such work IS particularly
needed now because we witnessing what to be
a beginning Of a back-to-the-farm movement. Whether
it is due high prices of foodstuffs which make
city life expensive and farm work profitable
or to that country life has been getting
attractive building roads and the advent OF
the cheap kindred improvements, there
is an increasing activity be noted all the
try in purchase and sale of small farms. The in
experienced man who decides take up farming
badly in need Of guidance
The business of making the pay involves great
deal more than production Of big yield per
II YOU have 15O-acre farm Pennsylvania, many
you going to plant to wheat? There is
wheat that will give the maximum profit
If you plant little wheat and too much of other
profits down If plant too much wheat
and too you make Just costly
error. Then you have figure how many head OF
cattle hogs you will keep; II you have too few,
you losing out in meat and fertilizer, If have