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Show EFFICIENCY EXPERT - TALKS AT ROUNDUP The application of efficiency p:inci-ples p:inci-ples to the farm in such a scientific and at the same time practical way that the farmer can tell exactly where he is farming correctly and exactly what his mistakes are, was the subject of an unusually un-usually absorbing lecture at th Farmers Farm-ers Roundup at Logan on Thursday, Jan 27th. E. B. Brossard, rarm efficiency expert for Utah, told the farmers some of the things he had found on more than 650 farms which he had studied in seven counties of Utah. The principles of efficiency management manage-ment are considered essential in industrial indus-trial plants today, explained Mr. Bros sard. So why couldn't efficiency experts ex-perts analyze the farm with just as good results, he asked. Mr. Biossard then proceeded to present to the farmers farm-ers a series ofjeharts, such as he has made on hundreds of Utah farms. He showed wnere good farming methods were employed, and where mistakes were beii.g made. Taking one farm in Emery county as an example, Mr. Brossard proved conclusively con-clusively that the ow ner was actually losing $922 every single year he operated oper-ated it. With an investment of more than $14,000 in the farm, Mr. Brossard proved that the farmer could far better bet-ter afford to sell the place and work for wages. Yet, on the face of things, this verv farmer was apparently making a good living from his place. He was getting a living, had a house to live in, but he was actually paying out $922 every year for the privilege of working on his place. The farmer, Mr. Brossard discovered, I had a large variety of animals on his place, including a considerable number of cattle. Liive many ether farmers, he threw feed into the inclosures where the cattle were kept. He did no bookkeeping. book-keeping. He knew nothing about the cost of the feed,or of feeding it. When Mr. Brossard got through tabulating costs, expenditure?, production and every otner item on that farm, he proved to the owner that for every $100 worth of feed he was collecting slightly over $90 through me sale ol the animals. ani-mals. In other words, Mr. Brossard showed the farmer where he was pay ing good money for the privilege of feeding and selling his cattle. Under the direction or Mr. Brossard a simple method of farm accounting has been arranged and books for farm bookkeeping book-keeping have been printed. Tney aie ristiibuted bv the college at cost. M. Brossard also furnishes efficiency charts, by which farmers can tabu'ate their own economic problems and compare com-pare their earnings of their properties with the average. "Farmers of the state are taking a great interest in the application of efficiency principles to farming," said Mr. Brossard. "'If they adhere to tnese principles I believe the productive value ot the farms already in operation in Utah en bo largely increased." State Senator Wlllard S. Hansen of Fielding, author of the county mutual mut-ual tire insurance law, also delivered an address at the roundup. iHe took up the question of mutual insurance, of which he has been a close student for years. He outlined the work which has been accomplished by the Bear River Valley Mutual Fire Insurance company, of which he is president and organizer. This company now has more than $1,000,000 worth of insurance in force and operates not only in Boxelder, bat in Cache county. Senator Hansen instructed the farmers farm-ers present on the methods of organizing organ-izing such companies and urged, the adoption of such mutual insurance in other parts of the state. |