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Show HAVE ONE SPECIALTY AND MAKE IT PAY Tbo following comment on special-Ired special-Ired fnrmlng by a writer In Farm nnd Flresldo enn bo applied to pretty nearly every cnlllng nud profession In this country today. "I can well romembor when I was a boy In tlio Falrvlew neighborhood we always bought our buckwheat from Bill Smith down on Bow Creek. Why? Ejcauso Bill 8mlth know how to raise buckwheat. He was the best buckwheat grower In tho county. His product never vnrlcd. "Tho Andersons always received fivo cents moro a pound for buttor than anyono at Fairvlew. Tho butter had tho quality and It was standard It never varied. Mrs. Anderson had a waiting list of butter customers in town. Tho noblnsons wero tho potato po-tato kings of tho county. Town customers cus-tomers bought all tho potatoes that tho noblnsons grew, at several cents inoro than tho mnrket prlco. Wo studied nnd worked with hogs nnd i alfalfa until wo beenmo very Bklll.ed In their production. Wo nearly ah ways received tho top prlco. Tho buyers know what our hogs and al falfa were. "Other farmers in that county had reputations for wheat, and corn, and oats and ryo, and eggs, and poultry, nnd grapes and poaches, and apples, nnd tomatoes. Ono orchurdlst could not supply tho demand for crab apples. ap-ples. Tho Lnmmcrs boys received a fnncy price for nil ot tho watermelons watermel-ons they could grow. But they would lose sales rather than turn out melons mel-ons that wero not up to their standard stand-ard of ouallty. "Theso farmer neighbors knew how to sell their products as well as to grow them. Thoy never worried n great deal about tho markot prlcu becauao the things they had to sell wore better. I remember the Wal-tons Wal-tons sold oats for seed at l a bushel bush-el nearly every year, when nt that time tho prlco ot oats was varying from 25 to 3C cents n bushel. "This all goes to bIiow thai stand-lardUatlon stand-lardUatlon of farm products which Id another word for raising something that Is Rood, and ot ovon quality, simplifies fnrm practices, Increases production nnd profits." |