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Show 1 WORLD'S BIGGEST FARMER H l .. I David itnnkln In tho blggoat farmer In tho H yrj world. "LotH of men hnvo more Innd than I," M r yX BnyB Mr. Itankln, "but thoy ubo it for cattle j ' rnngoH only. Mlno la a farm." Mr. Rnnkin nel- ..H ill ""tVft tllcr ra'H0H cntl, "or furnlahoa range Ho buys ..H Wici 'lfiHa? v l,l raw etoori, Inmx tno I)lftlns ""J fnttotiB thorn H c4 y iOT'v) nnl" t,,oy nro wortn w'c whnt ho pays for the H , PA m tdxs'lwjj "f Doctors," aa thoy uro cnlled. Ho novcr boIIs any .H feTvr r$ i coln' c,lnor' l,ocn8o by focdlng It to cnttlo, no- .H V fmiir I cor(1,,,K to n nl'Mto calculation of his own, ho H mV hiWJM I KtH 'noro iMiplo returns, Nenrly 40 yoars ago H X '., '.' ,jMJA Mr Hnnlcln, then an Illinois farm or, dlscovcrod H xjMrWf lliat '"lu' "" ono Hl(1 "' n 8tnto "no wns H(lllllK H .rfflvTfy JfMlMi for ?20 an acre, whllo ho might buy nny amount M jfeMSabCl lllllJvJli " tl10 ot,,,'r ul, of tl, Imnginary dividing uinrk M UMFMfcr7mM(fWUMM for Ioks than a third of that amount, Hut real m cutato men told him that no rnllrond would over H,'' i Ko noar tho MIhbouH lnnda, but for all that ho boUI his farm nnd bought all K I o oo1d of tho land nt $G an ncro. Ilocontty ho took an Inventory or his B X POBueaalons in tho neighborhood of Tnrklo, Mo., whore ho bought tbo cheap H t acreage, and It Hhowed that hu owned 20,010 ncroa, 12.000 fattening hoga, B 0,000 cattle. 800 horses, more than 100 cottngea. In which tho employes of tho H , big farm woro IiouhihI, great nunutlttcn of farm mnchlnory and tho llko. Mr B,, Itnnkln cornea of Scotch'Irlah ancestry. Ho wnB born In Indlnnn In rural povorty, and hu got his ntart In life trading a colt for caves und rnlslng tho 1 latter Into steers Today, In addition to his farm, hu owns nn Implomont B factory, n munlolpnl water syRtom, a telophono company, a bank nnd other 1 ' cntorprluoH, nnd when tho notion tnkes him ho udds $00,000 or so to the K omlowmout of Tnrklo collego, a rronbyterlnn hcIiooI In hU -homo town, which H has known his generosity to Oio extent of $200,000. |