| Show IDLERS DESTROY ALL CHANCES OF PROFIT IT W M wnm vl 0 get rid of the old machinery and have the most moat up to date laborsaving labor saving kind this Is an era of efficiency oy by JOHN D A good many years ago I 1 suddenly woke up to ilia he fact that lie hs idlers on tho the farm are the things that keep man train from making money when I 1 caroo came west fifteen years yeara ago I 1 visited i big manufacturing plant rt ct chicago ind and I 1 was struck by the system which kept everybody and everything busy in going through tho the factory I 1 could lot jot see an idle man nor an idle machino everything and everybody was on an the jump every minute no lost motion no loafing on the job and as I 1 pondered over the matter on nay my way to my now new farm I 1 began to realize cow much I 1 had bad lost in the past through maintaining idle and unproductive things As soon as I 1 got settled I 1 sold oft off three old horses I 1 had with me and bough two good ones traded tour cows that thai had bad never been jeen up to the mark for two that gave more milk than the four ever did and I 1 invested some of ray my capital in a flock 0 20 sheep about hens hena and five I 1 of the be best st brood sows bows I 1 could buy in the county then I 1 traded an old reaper that I 1 AA Z aa i I 1 1 i I 1 W az A 2 W 11 I 1 t using the tedder A very vary useful lm implement in curing a crop of alfalfa or clover lad hauled trim frim central ohio tor for five stands of bees and a good plow I 1 made up my mind that I 1 would have the best tools and the best live stock that I 1 could buy and that I 1 would make everything on the place earn Us its keep or know the reason why I 1 had brought with me an old threshing machine with which I 1 used to go arouni through our neighborhood in ohio every fall doing odd jobs of threshing of course I 1 made a little money at this but when I 1 figured out the time the old machine stood idle about ten months in the year and repairs I 1 had bad to pay for and the time spent in hunting up ap jobs I 1 quickly discovered that the old rattletrap had cost me a go good od deal of 0 money I 1 traded the outfit for a bunch of yearling calves and felt that I 1 had a load oft off ray my cheat chest within a week after I 1 had bad made my trades and purchases I 1 had the sheep busy cleaning up a 20 ocre acre pasture over chickens were scratching their living out or of the fields the hogs hoga were putting in n flesh the cows mado made more butter than we wa could use brought us in cash every week and the calves were laying money or on their ribs right along everything was nigh and day ot of course I 1 could not make nil all the changes I 1 wanted at once but within six months every head of ive stock on oft the place was waa good of its kind and pro profitable fi table that la is the main chingo to invest onos capital only in things that will braag returns on the investment I 1 never before had realized how hov greatly handicapped the farmer la fai who tries to work with old hall half worm worna out machinery decrepit horses that canno cannot tUo ho more than a half days lii la a day cows that eat more thab they earn and who has no poultry orf 04 sheep to clean up the stuff that would otherwise go to waste dy by ch changing changie angin my methods I 1 havel have made three times as much bonci money since I 1 came to south dakota as 11 over did in ohio although I 1 do not nol think my land lana Is any better batter and wa d do not work as hard I 1 have exact exactly ay tho the same amount at 0 land I 1 had in ohio and perhaps I 1 haqq learned how bow to fa farm it better but I 1 attribute what little success I 1 havo hava had to the fact that everything on place Is productive and that I 1 keep 0 everybody very body and everything busy every minute I 1 can |
