Milford chronicle., 1921-10-14

Contrast this condition with that OF
the wage Garner, or the salary of the
dependent family man. Each meal sci
before his family must be the result
of money paid out for groceries, fol
vegetables, for fuel, for bread. Every
single thing used to feed the family
must come from the pocketbook and
not from any natural increase from
the soil at his disposal. When the
year ends for the wage Garner or the
salaried man, and he is without mon
ey wherewith to procure potatoes and
bread, then indeed is the problem ser
ious, because the expense of supply
ing the needs of a family can not be
drawn from that which has been pro-
duced by personal effort and the ma
tural results of growth from the soil
1t is true that farm machinery and
phosphates are above former prices
prevailing before the war, while
wheat, corn, and other products of the
soil are at pre-war prices or even be-
low. The farmer must make close
study of how to best dispose OF the
grain and products of the farm, that
more value may be secured - even
though it require the feeding of hogs,
cattle or sheep, and by so doing pro-
long the turning of the grain crop of
this season into money. The by-pro-
ducts of stock feeding are q consid-
erable factor for the farmer to think
about. The actual sale of the animal
may not be the entire revenue deriv-
ed
Farmers must remember, that the
great war has brought great changes
in all kinds of business - and the
farmers are not exempt from these
changes. The production of milk on
many farms now equal the value OF
the money value of the grain crops.
In New Castle County the milk pro-
ducts of the farm is their main source
of revenue. With milk cooling sta
tions in Kent and Sussex counties and
the creameries to absorb the best
grades of milk, the farmers certainly
have new openings for getting re-
turns from their labors. The grain
produced can be turned into milk and
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cattle to enrich the fields for other
crops. This method creates a con-
tinuous current of farm returns not
observed each season-yet, a very inn
portant part of the business OF farm
ing. When farmers realize that they
must combine business ability to dis
pose of what the farm produces in
way that will bring cash returns,
their troubles will be largely solved.
The old system of planting, reaping
and accepting the market prices for
the grain or fruit produced, must give
way to the practical business end of
farming operations.
The farmer is to be considered as
the very basis of all prosperity in the
country-but it must be not forgotten,
that there are others who are neces-
sary to make prosperity. The farmer
is assured of a living from the soil
with proper growing seasons. The
wage Garner or salaried man, even
though they may receive larger cash
daily payments for their services, are
not sure of a living for their family
because of the possibility of idleness
or their physical breakdown. Sympa-
thy is all right and should be enter
tained-but after all is said and done
the situation can be solved by the
farmer with less suffering either men
tally, physically or financially. Let's
stop, look and listen and be prepared
to catch the first stream of a new
system of doing business, which will
bring prosperity to ALL The farmer
is the one to solve the problem. Com
planning will not do it; but actual ap-
plication of a business system, care
fully thought out, will make the coun-
ties of Delaware, prosperous and the
people happy in comfort realized
economic use of the crops,
for the best interest of themselves
and the state at large.