The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-05
Has Right Dope To Keep
 Farm Boys In Country

Many suggestions have been proposed
 and many methods tried for keeping farm
 boys on the farm, but J. N. Wyatt, Shelby county farmer who lives at Siluria,
 seems to have in successful operation the
 master method
 Business partnership and business train-
 Ing spell the secret of his success. These
 two have brought about close business
 relations and working cooperation.
 In crder to teach his boys business he
 gives them pig, colt, calf or a plot of
 land To work for themselves when they
 are in their teens, and after giving them
 fhis initial start he trades and does busi-
 ness with them as though they were not related to him If they take an animal tfey must Feep a, record of the feed used
 aud pay their father when the first re-
 turrs are received. Should he assign them a 1lot Of land to work they mrst keep q record of the fertilizer, seed and other costs and pay him when the first sa es ar.
 made. Thls is to teach then 'he mpor- tance of setting debts promptly But the teen-age boys soon become men.
 and a small business is not sufficient for m. At q a new contract is necessary. When this age is reached each boy is dceded certain portion of this fathers s farm, but it is cultivated as though it had not changed hands. The live stock, feed, grain, farm machinery, etc, are also invoiced and the boy becomes owner of this share.
 , The method of arriving at each boys share is follows: MT Wyatt has nine boys, and although he is 60 years old he is the tenth boy and proprietor of the
 farm Therefore at 21 a boy is decided
 onc tenth of the farm and one-tenth Of
 the personal property automatically De- comes his
 The reader is no doubt wondering what Mir Wyatt does for his girls. In order to keep the membership in his company ! frc,m becoming too large he pays eacn girl q nice amount of money and this settles her bill.
 But suppose boy gets married? He
 then builds a house on his share or the farm and moves into it. However, ne continues to use the family or company
 barn, granary, smokehouse, bank ac- count, etc.
 After few years married son may want to become proprietor of farm' anu he is at liberty to do so. His snare U. the land now ceases to be portion oi the old farm and is turned into an iiiui- vidual farm. The personal property whicn became his at 2t and his portion or tne increase is now turned over to nm. II when he was 21 there was on the iariIi 10 horses and now there are 2O, the son son is entitled to two horses. The same rue applies to the other personal property. by this breaking down each son starts to build up a farming business on the priii- ciples outlined and practiced py his ia ther. ,; 1 Had MT Wyatt not been success ms method would deserve little attention. bu' he has been success. In all he mas ac cumulated S15 acres of good lana anu much equipment Thirty years ago ne was working on the farm he now owns for 75 cents a day and boardlng ilhi self. At that time he says his possessions consisted of "a wife, two children, gray mare and two hound pups He lnheriteo nothing but common sense, oeterrlnlia nina 1 ton to succeed and healthy pody. mus he and his family have earned their all. Several years ago the Wyatt farm was 1 q cotton farm with many negroes on It. | Today if is a live stock and gram larn' l and more profitable. It is also much ihoie fertile. d
 MT. Wyatt is father, partner anu chum to each child. He requires ms poys 1 to carry life insurance, pay poll tax anu vote the democratic ticket. It IS interest,"
 ing to know that not one of his ooys mas ,i | worked as much as month on pupii0 !