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Show 1 WHAT IS FARM 1 j MANAGEMENT? n Farm management as a branch of H I ,ii t agricultural setenco Is dellned as H III If' follows In an address recently doltv- H J ' ' oied In New England by ono of tho B I Department of Agriculture's special- j "Tho farm management Investigate j or guts his information direct from j tho farmer. The solution of many j of tho practical probloms of agrlcul- H turo n ro found to have already been H I i soled generations ago by largo groups of farmors; particularly Is It H true of farm management and organ- Izntlou. Every farmer Is of nccos- slty nioro or lesg of nn experimenter. Tho results of thousands of such x- purliuuuters gathered by tho farm timnagomout Investigator, classified j and In.crpreted In their bearing on !y, tho community's problems and on x ' oij tho Itfdlvldual farm's problems, , . yield not only many fundamental broadly applicable; principles of good H farm organization, but also show In H mora or less detail In lust what re- H sped a successfully oporatcd farm H dtffors from ono which Is n falluro 1 I or only moderately successful, H j "In iirovlouH decades tho ngrlcultur- H ' nl Investigator largoly concerned him- H self with tho study of how to accom- H pltsh certain ends.. How best to feed H a pig or a cow; how best to raUo H potatoes or fruit. Tho farm man- j V ngement Investigator Is concerned H with determining whethor to keep H cows or pigs; whether to ralso fruit or potatoes; ami if nn industry be found to bo deslrnblo, to what extent H It should enter Into the farm organ H J Izatlon, and with what Intensity It jfj should no pursued. All of theso prob- S( loms havo in tho aggregate been solv- H cd by tho farmers. Farm manage- H , ment Is merely a science for c'assl- H tying and Interpreting tho collective H i oxpcrlonco of tho farming peoplo as H f HI iBk to what constitutes business efficiency efficien-cy In farming. "Farm management considers farming farm-ing as a business. It attempts to an-ulyzo an-ulyzo tho various factors having to do with tho success or falluro of that business ng It Is found conducted on tho Individual farm, and In so fnr us possible to determine tho broad out standing factors for efllclency which admit of general application for a region." |