Show FORTY FORTY ACRE ARE FARM SUPPORTS FAMILY No Mo Larger Tract is Needed to Provide Comfort and Plenty NET INCOME 1200 A YEAR Country Resident May nJ IIa e All Au l 1 the w i of To m J Vi f hout Us Is Ji es At n a 1 recent public address at Bozeman Dozeman Doze Doze- man Prof F. F B. B Linfield i ht the director of the United States experiment station sta ta tion timi for Montana at Bozeman roach read the Hll following paper which he had pre lIre prepared pared at the lo loof of Engineer er H. H N. N N Savage s' s the head heal of the lie United States Stalls reclamation service In Montana An Important question for the ho government govern govern- ment men and publicists to tn j consider In connection con con- necton with wih the lie reclamation enterprises enterprises enter enter- rinses of ot the lie government Is the proper size of the tilO farm which the thc government should offer orel to settlers This question Professor Linfield discusses from froni the standpoint of Montana conditions und un under un- un d let der r the title tte Forty Folt Act Acres Enough The rue question has been leon asked What area o of land under the Irrigation ditches con constructed by IH the reclamation reclamation- service service should be I. I c I as the lie farm arm u U H This qUe involves yet others othel'S What hat is the purpose of or the lie government o in it-i undertaking this re reclamation re- re work What class of people does It I aim to help hell I think all al will wi agree art that thaI the man ian of large moans means and large large should hould not have first consideration but rather the man of small smal means and ant capacity The wage earners and laborers laborer rather than the employer of labor labO ThC The aim of or the government should be to I make It I po pot pot- sible tot for the ruan ran of small mal means to build him himself ef a home in iii a n healthy at atmosphere atmosphere at- at where tho the social alt educational nc advantages es are such as to develop de do- te- te elop the best type tle of citizenship Sn for fur Support Next ext what area o of land under Irrigation ri li-ri- gallon gation Jalon wi support a man mali an and his family In Iii comfort and also provi provide e means for using educational opportunities opportunities for Cor his famil family The rue first part of this question queston can cun be bt answered only by asking another what hat is the y a average average aver az z- z age yearly income of the average working man While wages are good goodin in iii Montana pro probably abl 00 to ner per I car wIll ill wi be an outside wago wage obtained by the th er a average laborer in the country I towns Front From lii this house rent and all al living exp expenses n c have to be pal paid Now ow what will wi 40 acres of Irrigated land return under careful thorough and Intelligent management ment To bo ho equal to the wago sago proposition It lt provide provide pro pro- pro pro- vl vide e equal equa apS Interest rest o nn n the thc inv Cua i l cp r it nn n n o or df r farm machinery Y y mt and andor or ol orse e Something on on interest nd wages wilt will wH willbe be he P returned by the thc homo totne bin being pr pro pro- on the farm and be besides much of nf the the all al the til and lewand and tic lie wheat for Ol Hour loU may be grown on the farm arni and obtained without any cash outlay The same sanie me is true for fO the poultry poultry poul poul- try and the Lie e eggs g an and for lor the mi milk cream nn and butter buter needed With lh the lie saving sa in r rent lt and on the living grown on the farm farm- fully half hair a laboring laboring labor tabor ing ing maJ mans man's expense I it produced directly direct direct- ly front from the farm fat with hut bUt little or orno orno orno no cash cali l ca outlay Yield hl l ir an tie Acre But nut what will 11 ti 10 acro tract under irrigation produce f v 2 w II- II 1 will wi perhaps answer tie the u question hit George Georg Allen Alen living some five f e ml miles s from rom Bozeman Bozeman last last fall fal thrashed 75 7 bushels bushe of wheat per pet cr ecio Cle from a n acre 70 field and sold soll the crop I P for i p per r acre acre 10 0 per er acre i. i uld pa pay oay very vry wel sell for 01 the l labor ali and expense of or gro growing and harvesting the he cro crop Thus the thc gross returns fro from n nI 10 41 I acres aCIe would be lie and tl the lie net i return 1200 One hundred bu bushels 0 of oats oats per er acre cro is a common crop croll f for forthe r the tho good farmer former At At 1 I cent a 0 Jund pound lound this thiis means 31 per aCl nerO acre I It we Wl again allow alow 10 per acre for or expense it would woul give as 1200 a I gross gros return as is s the net return from flom 40 acres of the ground In the lie Yellowstone valley aliey aley live five loi to lo tosi si six i tons Ions of alfalfa hn hay per acre Is Is-a Is a common crop crOl At AtI v I 1 I per Jer ton this Oils Is t D to 24 per pel acre act 8 tier per acre aCIe w wIllbe will willbe be A J large price ice for or or J producing and mid handling this crop rop IOp At t six six tons per acre this would give gl e a gross ros return of or a n net not return of or from fromin 1 in acres of lan land If I this alfalfa ha hay was fed to stock particularly to dairy cows cois's these returns re returns ft- ft re- re turns could be nearl nearly doubled Profit In lii II Butter BUler The rho fht writer has pastured two milk mik cows on one acre of ground nn and obtained ob oh- pounds of nr butter buter faL fat At 20 O Oe e cents nor por tt pound this returns 10 per ncr acre acie or 01 1000 from Crom 40 0 acres acres The rIte Tit shove ho crops crois can cati be he produced for Cor a n minimum outlay of labor laboi A man mal and anda a a. team could do o practically nil all ni the work In the above c alo illustrations the returns from but one crop crep were considered considered considered con con- but Jt a n combination of man ninny many of pt the crops mentioned would be le the Ihl l Ideal eal farm practice If live lve stock were werE handled le this would woul spread Hl the lie work oik over the Vl year ear lr and Uw lie returns on these thesE variety variety- crops will wi be he Jn iii JI proportion to the acreage acreage of o each and would give o nl the maximum return of or from to 1600 PC per year ear from Crom the lie 40 acres in addition to providing a a home and man many o of the lie ln 1 living expenses In Iii the lie above estimate none of th the crops expensive to raise have ha e been beel considered Potatoes sugar beets garden garden garden gar gar- gar gar- den truck and fruit of all 01 I kinds call cal for lar larger er outlay of or lul lallor or but they are art correspond correspondingly I ugly larger p producers 1 01 and greater returns per acre act Something In iii these kinds of or crops should be grown iown However Ho the cx- cx tout of these ic crops that lint ml might ht be lie grown glown will wl be lle te determined by the me available for 10 properly caring for tot them To lo 10 yield the the la lat largest est returns return the wor worl of the lie the farm should holl be lie so planned as to afford profitable employment the year ear at The farmer on 10 40 acres has to 10 tobe tobe be he a manufacturer a concentrator of farm form products as asel well el as ns a producer of raw zaW material material When properly manae managed man nina ae aged this will wi bring not done alone Income but larger larget profits I have known many amities In th lie tho East raised on 01 a n farm of 01 50 acres act with comfort bodies bolleR and nail vigorous Igor vigor vIgor- oils ous ous active minds out From 20 acres of ot Montana's Irrigated land laud I have seen scott grain and hu hay litty produced than titan on ott 01 many of of the he best of or the these o e 0 fa farms l mJ Forty acres neres Is enough Right Hight- l ly farmed It will wH give nn any nt n a comfortable com corn living It I will wil give to c cery ery eryman man titan a neighbor at his do doUr door r It will wi give to the country resident all uJ the ad advantages advantages al- al vantages of the urban resident nl without without with with- wih- wih out his dl disadvantages d It I will wi bring lo to lothe the he rural home the best bet social c educational educational u an and i rel t lou advantages Doze advantages Bozeman Boze- Boze r than man n corre correspondence pon of or Anaconda Sa Standard n da rd |