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Show THE BUSINESS OK FAItMINO"""" I, Bf t. E. Waooonih, o( tht I II C Strife. Baffin A great deal has been said In a joe-1 nlar way about the razor-back hog and i ' his sun-splitting abilities, but it Is a rery encouraging fact that he Is rapidly rap-idly becoming extinct. Ills happy hunting grounds consist now of only a small part of the total hog producing produc-ing area. He has been succeeded by tht more domestlcaUd and mors highly developed typ of hog, which temeon has properly dubbed "the aortftfffi raiser." Many farmers can MtUy attribute the possession of homes, wealth and all that goes there-WltMothcdomestlcatedhog. there-WltMothcdomestlcatedhog. HIsplac la Hit chstnt of Industrial progress bMbten won not by any unusual trait, but Is largely due to the fact that his ! profitablentss is a result ot instinctive economical habits. By nature he1 seems to fit Into the whole scheme of farming as a utilizer, to the best possible pos-sible advantage, of many of the farm products that would otherwise be a total loss. I We can draw a very valuablo lesson from this all but artistic animal, I whose only language Is his squeal of disapproval and his sturdy grunt ot I satisfaction. He saves whero others waste, and makes his living by rooting I around sometimes in places where wanted, sometimes not. If there Is anything within reach that he likes he usually Hurts it and proceeds to make good tibo of the opportunity without any manlfost concern or excitement. ex-citement. Ho seems to make it his business to look aftsr small things, even the holes in the fence if tho outside out-side looks moro inviting. Profitable farming Is becoming more and more a business proposition In which It is necessary to look after the small things and to use to the best) advantage every opportunity to produce pro-duce more economically. The best and most profitable farmers hats adopted systems ot farm accounting, or, In other words, they havs bocomt bookkeepers, hato kept such complete com-plete records as to enablo them to determine de-termine which fields were profitable and which were not. To begin with, It Is not absolutely necessary to follow up all little details, but It Is a good plan to do so as completely as possible. If we were to go Into a manufacturing manufactur-ing plant, one of the first things to Impress us would be the system of doing things and the strict principles of economy , 'that are followed. All produced that can bo used for other purposes aro saved, properly stored, and used when the time comes. A 6 the end of each month, and possibly each day, the manager knows the exact status of affairs tho amount of stock on hand, and the quantity of finished product ready for tho markot. Every part of a great machine Is numbered and each must bo accounted for. ( ff tho same unsystematic methods . were practiced in factories as aro used . on some farms, they would soon lose J their Identity with tho world's progress, pro-gress, aiuj become nothing but Kilo I monuments to some man's failure. ' On careful consideration It Is plain to 1 seo that with farming it is as Import-1 Import-1 ant, If not moro so, to keep definite ' and strict rocords of all expenditures of time, money and labor. The spaca alloted to thl3 artlclo ! will not permit a detailed explanation of all tho possibilities of an account- ing system on tho farm and what it win accomplish, nuc careiuny Kepi records will tio an index finger to point tho farmer to loop holos through which tho profits aro now slipping. Ho would know which are tho profitable fields; which are the most profit) producing crops; which cows were boarders, that he might at tho end of the season sell such animals to pay their board bills; he would know whether he was utilizing his horso power to the best posslblo advantage. In this connection It might bo said that ono of our foremost universities has Just found that.on a ICO-acro farm, equipped with six splendid head of work stock, tho average dally labor per horso was only a Utile over three hours for the entlro year a very small avorage labor record, Indicating a lack of efficiency. Well kept accounts would enable us to determine tho most satisfactory way ot utilising our dairy products. Experiment Stations have found that the cream separator reduces the loss of butter fat per cow to one-eighth that of the deep setting; one-twenty-first ot the shallow pan, and one-thirty-third of the water dilution methods of cream separation. This 6hows that with the ordinary farmer who Is milking ten average cows, figuring butter at the market price, will nave more than the price of a separator In a single reason. It not only is economical from the standpoint stand-point of obtaining more of the butter fat from tho milk and other methods of cream separation, but makes it posblble to utilize the milk beforo it has undergone the action of detrimental detri-mental bacteria, to which It is very susceptible. Every farmer knows that milk as It comes fresh from the separator Is in the most wholesome condition for feeding young pigs and young calves. We hear a great deal said nowadays about maintaining the fertility of the soil. We all know that if grain Is sold direct on tho market that we deplete the fortuity of the land very rapidly. The next best system uf farming Is htock raising for meat production, pro-duction, and the Lebt of all s)steiii for maintaining the pioductlvlt) ' ' the kind, and af the same time m profits tluueluiiii, is dairying I. C selling tho whuie ml'k but scllii. ' butter only. Only hy follnviing some system of farm accounting can wo know these things and bu able to weigh In tho balance tho returns from each field from each kind of stock and from everyfarm tgoration. |