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Show FOUR RULES TO FARM SUCCESS "There are four commandments for all farmers," declared Dr. Thomas L. Martin in speaking to the Pleasant Grove and Lincoln high schools roundup this week. They are as follows : First, feeding the table: second, growing a minor cash crop to take care of the monthly expenses : third, the growing of a major cash crop; fourth, farming the soil so that the fertility will increase instead in-stead of becoming poorer. In speaking of the first commandment command-ment Dr. Martin showed how a man, his wife, and four children would consume a given quantity of milk, butter, eggs, vegetables, flour and meat, all of which can be raised on the farm. It will take seven acres of laud to produce feed for the animals in providing the above," he continued. In discussing the second commandment com-mandment or minor cash crop it will take, said Dr. Martin. $8.5 per month to meet the expenses of the home which include clothing, shoes, automobile, amusements, taxes, interest in-terest and doctor bill. Three hundred ninety-two hens which average 125 eggs per hen per year at 25 ceuts per dozen will fur- uish the J?S5 a month and ten acres : will furnish the food for the 'chickens or ten dairy cows with butter averaging 40 cents a pound will also furnish the $85 per month and it will take 20 acres of land to furnish them with feed. In fulfilling the third commandment command-ment the speaker showed the necessity neces-sity of the farmer maintaining interest, in-terest, also the locality and the kind of a major crop he. was to j grow. |