Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
MILFORD. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1926

Il SlLup4S pIOblSAh III olAlSAASAS' SNN
a very serioGA study to arrange
their business methods so as to Gre
ate larger results from growing
crops of fruit, grain, live stock,
poultry, or whatever line selected
by them to operate on their lands
and farms. In a brief statement of
what they must do to create more
money returns from the business of
farming, is summed up in the fact,
that they must double and treble the
yields from our unsurpassed farm
lands on the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula,
and also increase the number of
acres of tillable and productive
land. They must raise thoroughbred
stock, such as sheep, cattle, hogs,
chickens and vegetables for the mar
ket. 1t costs no more to grow a
thoroughbred calf than it does to
grow a scrub dwarf breed of cat
tie. Thoroughbred sheep are paying
those who grow them within a doz-
en- miles if Milford fifteen dollars
per head in cash revenue each year.
The proof of this can be shown to
any farmer who wants to get better
results and thereby reduce the taxes
proportionately on costs and profits
from the farm each year. The woods
and forests can be made to return
cash profits each year, by intelli-
gent thinking and making the effort
to accomplish definite purpose. In
both Kent and Sussex counties in
Delaware, are farmers now Operat-
ing farms who received last year,
cash returns from milk, lambs,
wool, calves, and poultry, far in ex-
cess of the total value of the corn,
wheat and hay grown on the lands.
Those farmers are not objecting to
taxes, because they have thought out
how to make use of their farms and
take advantage of the opportunities
which easy marketing of their pro-
duction, has brought to them
through and by the concrete high
ways. If you borrow sum of mon
ey to enable you to get better re-
turns for what the farm produces,
and then accomplish what you had
in view, the cost of the hire of that
money is not a tax in any sense Of
the word. The roads are here, and
here to stay; so is the opportunity
to get your share of the benefits, and
every farmer will get better results
and be able to pay off the cost of
building highways, if he has the
common sense to work out for his
own case, the means of making sue
cess for himself. In Slaughter Neck
is a farmer, who received from three
crops last year. more money than he
paid for his land; which was about
twelve thousand dollars. This is no
idle dream; but facts which can be
shown to those who are sufficiently
in love with farming and manage
ment of both the crops and the land
on which they grow. Taxes are not
too high for the men who are doing
things for themselves. With sat
isfactory income from any business
operation, there can be no quarrel |
as to reasonable taxation. We have |
the roads and better homes and we
must have better school buildings for +
the children. What the farmers
need, is better effort to produce lar
ger crops from the same acreage of
land, and then through liberal study
and observation, stock their farms
with grade cattle to produce milk
and increase the fertility of their
fields. Just more looking ahead and
less knocking. More determination
to excel others in getting results
from their work, with less jealousy
and envy of their successful neigh
Dor. That will bring home the fact,
hat taxes are not a burden, when
he cash is flowing back monthly, or
Yearly to reimburse the farmers for
Efforts to get success from growing,
ind selling of the produce of their
ands. That is the real way to re-
luce the tax problem satisfactory, .
md the only way with fairness to !
he boys and girls who will be the t
men and women of tomorrow years,
nd honor to ourselves of this era of
prosperity. f
De@ I
THE PRESENT CONGRESS is i'm a
lacably emphatically dry and fur
lermore the next congress will be
f the same general character. Some
eeks ago the statement was made
lat no matter how high the bloOd +
might rise during the pro- P
bition debates before committee
congress, in the end the congress
ould stand by the prohibition
nendment and would instead of di
odifying the same be more likely
strengthen it. That is just the IT,
tuation which has developed. The -