The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-23

cultural colleges, or the United States department
of agriculture. But when declared and
Uncle Sam asked the farmers to grow more food
stuffs of every kind, those who had before assumed
attitude of Indifference responded to the call.
Throughout the nation these farmers, with spirit
of patriotism and an additional inducement of fair
prices and an assurance of reasonable compensa-
tlon for their expenditures, called upon the fed
eral department and other agencies that could
give them information. The attitude well as
the spirit of the farmers changed from peace-time
TO wartime farming
Improved methods and practices adopted and
now being applied have come to stay. In future
farming methods there should be little question
to the practice of the who has treated his oats
for smut and has increased his yield; the who
has applied fertilizer to his wheat and has in
creased his crops five to ten bushels acre the
man who has sought information on the feeding OF
cattle and has found that by adding protein to the
ration he produce a pound of beef with nine
pounds of corn where the old ration required 1S
pounds of grain; the man who was encouraged to
build silo through which he is able to feed
carload of cattle with the crops from 16 acres of
land when before it required % acres Men who
have learned these lessons, have the result,
and have profited by them are not going back to
od-tine methods. Farmers reaching out in
broader way for additional aid.
Last fall farmers planted 100000 acres of
wheat and while the early prospective yield
reduced to some extent by reason of adverse
weather and insect enemies, a crop of approx
mately billion bushels is the result. This huge
crop Is the direct result of the good methods of
farming that employed in the fall of 1918.
There tons of fertilizer applied to this
wheat than during any previous year. There
more early plowlng. There better cultivation.
There better selection of varieties and better
treatment of the seed There was more top-dress-
ing of the crop with straw and manure than
known in any other year. Part of the crop
due to favorable weather in some localities.
some just to plain luck, but the big results
achieved in the wheat fields all the country
was due to the improved methods employed by
farmers.
There Is large and sufficient evidence to show
that agriculture has made rapid, sure and SUBJ
stantal advance. If that is true, then agriculture
will not readily revert.
At no time has the farmer been called upon to
give greater attention to the business side of his
operations. In this day of high-prced land, labor,
seed fertilizer, machinery, and other materials
and equipment, careful attention must be given to
economical production Industrial plants have
found it necessary to Introduce the cost-accountng
system in order that the cost of each part
factured may be determined. In the same way,
farmers must conduct their business and know
definitely the desirable and profitable lines of
production.
Not every farmer has 1t within his power to in
crease his acreage, but he very materially in
crease his income by judiciously increasing the
size of his business There is way of doing
this that seems to be open to farmers in prac-
tically all parts of the country. The simplest and
surest way for the land-locked farmer to make
more money is to produce more and better live
stock There is but limited opportunity for ex-
Dansion In the production of the intensvely grown
crops but there is great opportunity for expansion