Smyrna times., 1925-08-26

good, intelligent brain mas Iull scope
for functioning on a modern, up-tO-
date American farm. d
Gas city civilization has become t
so has our rural civiliza- t
ton. The problems and stress of v
modern civilization are as heavily felt Il
in the rural districts of our State as t
they are upon the streets of Whining !
ton. The failure Of the inefficient is '
Just as patent in the country as in the I
city. In fact, sometimes | think more {
so.
Business With a Long Time Turnover
"The farmer is in a business that
has long time turnover. His crops
are at the mercy of the elements and
often the factors which make for
success or failure are beyond his con-
troll However, there is always the
factor of personal management In
farming enterprise that there Is IN
any other business. Let me give you
an illustration from our own county,
| New Castle. We recently made a
farm management survey of large |
number of farms in the grain prOduc-
| ing area of this country When the |
tabulations were completed we found
two farms of essentially the same
cultivated area that were decided con-
trasts in management. One farm was
one of the best paying farms in the
region studied, the other one of the
poorest paving farms. One had 1874
and the other 1913 tillable acres. The
total capital invested, real estate and
operating capital, was $22,651 for one
and $23,3 1892 for the other. Both farms
were on essentially the same type OF
soil. The same sun shown and the
same rains fell on both. Both had
equal advantages as to markets and
both we're engaged in similar types OF
farming. Yet one farm had total
, farm income of $2712 while the other
had but S1224 farm income. One man
received, outside his family living
from the farm, $1579 for his years
labor, the other one $57. One return
, ed 90 per cent on the capital invest
ment. the other 27 per cent. The
good paying farm had expenses for
the year amounting to $4575, the
other $2764. Why the difference, with
- equal opportunity?
=, "Does it not lie in efficient manage
i ment. such as balance of business, ef-
- fcient utilization of labor and quality
). of the business done. As an example
>. of quality of business we find that the
70 good farm produced 1906 pound ot
= milk per COW, while the poor farm
produced but 2423 pound of milk pc
= cow. The good farm produced 8
= bushels per acre of corn, the poo
10 farm but eight bushels per acre. Ih
- good farm kept 125 chickens, the poo
~ farm $50, yet the good farm had
~ cash receipt of $252 from poultry, tn
,c- poor farm nothing.
90 Gas an example of balance of bus
IL ness we find that on the good farI
~ 20 per cent of the total milk receipt
an were expended for purchased feed, o
A. the poor farm 37.5 per cent of IL
ri total milk receipts were so eXpende
ba The good farm had seven sources
nc income OF over 5000 from the Ian
he while the poor farm had but thre
oa The good farm furnished $6O4 Wor
, - Of the family living from the farT
mo- the poor farm but $24l.
or "No doubt many of you could gi
;no me similar examples of success al
failures in your own particular Ii
of busnes. The point which l
ent irving to make is that the cOnditlo
oo, of modern farming offer free SEQ
4Lo for the use of ones brains.
per City Men as Owners of Big Farm
lerS "Many city business men have tri
az running a farm as a sideline to tn
lea- business. The usual result is til
UNI MIKE their money in the city a
'Seu spend it in the country. Financial
heI- they would have been better off
uich they had left the farm alone, and g
Ol orally speaking their rural neighb
ohs: would have been financially better
; Oh The average business man, when
IN buvs a farm, is imbued with the j
half ySt DUS - 49,, ro,,oIr+ioniza tho farm
anu game in the particular community
the which he happens to purchase.
huGH tries to manage his farm with
Ihe same methods with which he runs
business in the city. Often he p
arm out farm, upon which no one c.
puia- hope to succeed, just because it
'meu' cheap. The usual ending is that a
CITY few years he concludes that Il
Is OH is nothing in the farming game
Tar looks about for someone upon W
our to unload the elephant. There
the exceptions to this type of ending
"hlch is true. There is a certain typ
nan d mind which is necessary to sue
oderh let US call it farm minded for
'ralhS of better name. The city bus
mas man with this type of mind kl
gam enough to keep his feet in the
'trohg even though his head may be in
n"'ioii clouds.
esSlul "The usual city man has pr'
EenCGS | ;Ioac boxry a forv,, O11Ul