Show business principals applied to farming A group of farmers at owatonna minnesota operating under a cost keeping system put out five years ago by the U university of minnesota experts have disproved the traditions that farming never pays they have found where the farm leaks are in labor in buying in selling and they have tried to plug every leak they have paid themselves 60 a month wages and 5 per cent on their investment they have increased butter production 20 per cent per cow and reduced production costs they have found shorter cuts to profits fi ts in in almost every branch of farming fanning their farm income last year averaged 2471 or better than a month which is tar far above the average tradesman or mechanic income last year brought exceptional prices tor for wheat cornand corn and a few other products but much of this minnesota income was from miscellaneous farm arming alfalfa poultry dairy products they had no magic sesame to success they merely cut out the wa waste ste and stuck to the things that paid |