Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-19
SEABROOKS
IN GOLFERS
Millions Read of Famous
Farms.
WIDE PUBLICITY
Carl Snyder, Expert Writer of
New York Weekly, Writes on
Doubling the Yield of Farms.

golfers, the New York National
Weekly, with its 100000 copies cir
culated throughout the country this
week, tells the story of the Seabrook
Farms. The story is the leading fea-
ture af this weeks issue and is writ
ten by Carl Snyder, one of the most
distinguished writer's in the country.
The article is entitled Doubling the
Yield of Farms, is illustrated with
pho ographic reproductions of the
Deerfeld property, and provides for
the large frontispiece for the title
page of the Weekly.
Mr.. Snyder provides for his article,
sub-head which reads:
Some Startling Results of Intensive
cultivation, and the perusal of the
article justifies the suggestion thus
boldly proclaimed.
Carl Snyder presents this introduc-
tory to the fve-page article of the
Golfers:
This is, first Of all, the story of
now young man, without any other
advantages than his own energy and
brains, took hold OF a modest farm in
southern New Jersey and in five or
six years built it up to a property
worth over 100000. This year the
farm value of his product alone will
be over 100000.
"1t is an amazing story, character
lstically American, and it is safe to
say that if its like could be found in
tht United States, it could not be
found anywhere else in the world.
AS a measure of his achievement. con-
| trast these two facts. this poung
man, Mr.. G. F. Seabrook, has brought
| the acres of his southern New Jersey
farm to produce food to a value ten.
| twenty, perhaps even thirty times
what those same acres did six or
eight years ago. They produce food
in value perhaps five or ten times that
of any adjacent acres and certainly
ten times that of the average for the
best land in the same section.
"Over against this I put the fact re-
Gently reported in the Bulletin of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture that the average yield per acre
of all the farms in the Limited States
will this year be practically the same
in bushels of wheat and corn, tons of
hay, bales of cotton, and so on, as it
was fifty or more years ago."
Then follows the graphic descrip-
ton of the remarkable achievement
| upon the prolific acres of the Sea-
brooks farms, a description replete
with statistics and proved by the ac-
tnal figures taken from the certified
| accounts of the corporation. 1t is a
story of conception, brains, energy
and the application of resources that
make for successful results.
And after Mr.. Snyder has told his
story and explained fully the cause
and effect, he presents to the agricul-
turists of the country this conclusion:
"But there is something more need
ed than mere capital This past spring
number Of New York bankers and
rich men raised a fcnd of $4,000, 900
to offer the farmers of New York
State, in order to stimulate produc-
ton in this time of great dearth
There was relatively little demand
The truth is that, as Mr.. Seabrook ex-
pressed. it. farming in this country
is an occupation and not business"
All great businesses in the world have
been built up on borrowed capital and
on big borrowing The typical enter
priser, the captain of industry, is not
a great saver; and besides, the time
of his great need is when the energy
of his youth is at the full. He could
not wait to save his capital. He must
have it ready for him. And that is
why, for the purposes of progress, the
saver and the miser are, next to the
driving executive and the inventive
genius, the most useful members of
society. They alone make progress
possible.
"John D. Rockefeller was a great
borrower, so was Carnegie, so was
Mr.. Morgan, so was James ]. Hill; so
were all the great builders and direc-