Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-15

many. you need much pasture, and your prohts
go into feed. each of these elements there is
single proportion best results This pro
portion being determined by careful study Of the
years earnings of hundreds of farmers In the wheat
problem eastern state for instance 1t was FOUND
that proper amount plant thirty acres The
profit touched its maximum point at the thirty
mark.
The only way to get results like this is to study
different farms Your neighbor Smith may
plant fifty Of wheat and make more money than
YOU do 1t does follow that Smiths success is due
a big wheat acreage this case. he would be max
ing money in spite Of It. He might not know himself
why his farm profitable. But when all the more
profitable farms lined up side and all the
profitable the other. the common factors
stand out for the expert to read Then he can put his
finger particular point and This is why Smith
makes money" Smiths ueighbor follow suit.
Even the successful farmers do not always why
they are successful. This strikingly shown in
big northwestern wheat region The yield ~
there twenty-three bushels to the Yet
there eight who got forty bushels
year after year A study made to find out how
these did it, The investigators went to each o:
and asked How that you forty bushels,
and Brown next door here only gets twenyhve? Each
of the farmers had ready and all the
different and of the answers right.
One of the took the investigator out behind the
barn and showed him patent harrow to which he
ascribed his Another believed in parti
cuar brand Of seed 1t was hardly probable that all
these men were getting big yields and ali for different
So they were questioned carefully on all their pro-
planting cultivation, investigators
found that while their methods differed slightly they
all agreed in being careful thorough about
their dskng operations than any Of their neighbors
The root OF their lay in this careful disking
and they themselves had not known It, But by finding
what process all these used that
their neigflbors did possible explain
their success advise their neighbors accordingly.
Many farm problems being worked out by
studying successful farmer system Of bookkeep-
ing for farms been devised this plan Almost
every feels the keeping books but
paratvey few of them have simple and adequate
tenn. The office of faFp management studied the sy<-
TENS in use They found that there scores diff
systems on the tarms. Of the farme~s
had only been using particular system for a few
months a year. They studied the systems of farm
had been keeping their books plan for
using practically the same system standard system
this basis and it is proving popular
all the country
The best size for the farm studied and the
conclusion the for this country,
will keep two and four horses busy Smaller
farms are not profitable larger tend to
centrate the ownership of land in few hands. An
interesting in the investigations is the
conclusion good deal more profitable to rent
a small farm than buy A man who has only
few thousand dollars to invest make more money
by paying rent sinking capital in tools and soc
than by tying it in the land.
The whole problem OF making the farm Is q very
fundamental one Il unusual times such these the
farmer is a prosperous citizen. But in normal de-
pressed periods get all profit that is coming
to him. big crops alone will suffice And the
kept contented the whole nation has
10 pay the bill.