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Show Wasted Labor It is not always the farmer that works the hardest that makes the most money. It is only properly di- rected labor that brings very profitable I returns. ; It is often true that the farmer who works from the early morn until dark ! and then finds it necessarv to do chores by lantern light, is the one who at the year's end finds difficulty in calculating a very encouraging profit. After he has figured his paltry return, he generally gen-erally heaps curses on the farming profession. Or possibly just as often marvels to his wife ol the excellent harvest of his neighbor then attributes the same to a streak of luck that likely like-ly will visit him next vear. But tlas, another year parses. Again his har- : vest is naught and hi:r neighbor still ' wears that happy smile which indicates I a farm free from mortgage, a nice bank j account an a good full purse. The next year the results are the j same and it so uverwhelms the unlucky I man that he decides lo Bell Lis farm. He finds a purchaser and then under his breath as he moves away he says "O, but didn't I soak him." How is it that the two farmers both owning land adjoining should differ so widely in results? In many cases the son is practically the same and concM. tions identical. There of inuise may be many reasons, but one that stands out as most important is proper planning plan-ning of work. It is not how much labor lab-or one puts in his farm that counts so much as how that labor is made to be effective. Tnere ire farmers who year after year are placing an almost exlravagent amount of labor on their farms when really they had failed to place their sou in a condition to receive that labor. A soil void of fertility will not r.;:ind to the most intensive cultivation and treatment. The tinner wrtJ filans ahead, iid sees to it tnat the soil which he works is m :in.litijii to respond to i-iientific application of labor is the farmer who will sjeceed. It takes careful planning however to reach this point and it cannot tic reached in one year, rv.ch part of the larm is a study in and of itself But if it is first stodged stodg-ed and then handled properly it wil give returns, otherwise the wort is waste labor and brings smill profits. There are many farmers wh fail to make these observations. They go in-into in-into the field anil with ut forethought start work expecting that all will be well if theywoik I rem sun to sun. The soil is a good paymaster if properly managed but it pays orly to the extent that it is scientifically operated. Now being the fall of the year when work is not so pressing why nst look over the farm and m ike plans for the future? Why not plan for the application appli-cation of a good deal of manure on soils that have been improductive the past few years? Why not eliminate the element of change or luck and decide that you will employ tho metnod that in the years to come will bring ultimate success. The head can save the feet many a step. It can make your labor: productive if you will but use it. Utah Farmer |