Show MADE FARMING david rankin the rockefeller of missouri our started work without a cent columbia mo AIO sixty years ago in indiana a country boy was married when the clergyman had fin finished labed the young man turned hla his pockets w rong side out 1 I have just five dollars to my name he said take it all then he explained to hla his bride as they walked away now I 1 shall have an evan cn start the boy became a farmer just a plain ordinary farmer worked hard bard and believed that a penny saved was 3 r 4 0 al U david rankin a penny and a quarter earned the 0 ther other ilay day he took an inventory of hla his farma farm scratched his gray head d a moment and said doing pretty well af after ter all the figures totaled up david rankin for as the detective stories say it was none other than he sot of karklo mo aio is the worlds biggest farmer that to is what he claims to be a farmer not a stock ralser raiser nor a agriculturist the first agricultural implement he ever owned he went out in debt for now it 1 ho he w rattle a million bushels of corn in a season ho he conil considers ders that he be has had bad a crop failure he has acres of land that are a actually producing there are men who own more land but david rankin is a farmer if the number of hla his fattening hogs falls below he be becomes nervous the business secret of rankings life haa bas been specialize stick to it and early to bed pie ile has ma made deonly only one trip abroad 1 I sleep over there he ha explained david iwankin years old but fi he never spends an idle idi hopr ile he is the rockefeller of missouri ile he has bas given at different times to karklo college and considers it hta his best beat investment his motto Is A farmer la Is a bustness man who lives in the open |