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Show A RAILROAD MAN WHO HAS MADE A 8UCCE8S OF FARMING In the current Issue ot Farm and Firesldo appears an interview with nn .important railroad man who put a mismanaged Western farm on to a business basis. Following Is a part ot what bo has to say: "The principal Job I bad to do to make that farm pay and It does pay now waB to Introduce that thing which Is said to be the spice ot all , life: VARIETY. And yet I had a de-finite de-finite schedule and system for do n the work planned Just as In tho rail-road rail-road business. "Now I have cood crops. My live stock Is tho prlda of my eye. The moment that It began to look as if J ! wo wero going to have a parcel post I put advertisements In the papors of the throe small cities nearest my farm, and I am doing a good buslnoss with those cities through Undo Ham. I bought hens and coaxodi'omito lav, I read up on buttermaklng for, you ( know, there are' still many people in tho cities who-llko to think that they . aro eating butter made on tho farm j "I wouldn't care if the railroad , company let mo go tomorrow. It's mighty hard work on the farm, but, by Jingo, It's satisfying work. My wife and I are never so happy as I when we are digging in the soil from which we came and to which we must return In tho end." |