Show I LAND LANDBy ITS IT'S TILE THE MAN UAN ON THE TIIE By Dy Frank Beckwith Deckwith I had the pleasure of riding across the valley last summer with Farm Demonstrator Jos P. P Welch Velch who has a closer and more exact knowledge of every farm within his province than any other man of my acquaintance He also knows besides besides besides be be- sides the farm the farmer himself Joes Joe's business requires it His business business busness bus- bus iness ness is to make the man fit to the theand theland theland land and what is best a adapted to that land and what are the best methods to use what is the most approved practice suitable to our conditions conditions- all of ot which necessitates two very important studies A study oC the soil and a study of the man I During our ride Joe spoke at length of a man whose farming just just exactly suited him As it equally suits me our readers may have it Charlie Burke of Hinckley is the kind of man and the kind of farmer farm farm- er it is a pleasure to write about I knew him before I came to Delta for he attended board meetings as asa asa asa a director in a company I was working working work- work ing ng for When I got here It was my great pleasure to know more of him Charlie has obtained results As results are taxable Charlie will not thank me to inventory them for the assessor But I can say he has land and two farms nice houses good Improvements cattle pigs horses cows sheep i is a director in this and andIn andin andin in that that all all won from just the conditions conditions con con- which pertain to our community community community com com- as a whole Now let me try to analyze just what combinations were used by Mr Burke to wring success from fron these stubborn conditions He has no more land than he can properly handle requisite Number One lIe He handles that land requisite Number Two Now its it's not luck that he knows Just what year ear Is the right year to go in for seed and not for hay and just what year ear Is 18 the right one to go in for fornore more nore hay and little seed its it's not nol luck uck that prompts him to stick sUck steadfastly steadfastly stead- stead lastly any and all years to the good old stan stand stand-bys cattle stand cattle pigs an and 1 sheep That's not nol luck at all That's good management Being Deng an old settler at Hinckley kley Burkes Burke's ranch is of ot course into alf alf- alfa It takes time to get there but tut once In Its It's worth the cost Having Having Hav Hav- ing it he lie sees Bees clearly that the very best jest way to market farm produce produces Is s in meat Hence all con conditions favoring ho he fee feeds When conditions conditions conditions condi condi- warrant part of the tI acreage goes joes to seed but never a gamble on the whole crop With both feet teet on the ground 1 he never takes lakes a risk to lose all there all there 8 s al always always al- al ways waye an anchor to windward Charlie follows follow the tho Ul method thod of pas pan luring turing sheep on his alfalfa In the early spring until say along about the first of June Then they are taken off Taken year in and nd year out Charlie Charlie Charlie Char Char- lie knows to a T liT that feeding is the safe the sure game He markets markets markets mar mar- his crops in meat That is the game for this valley valle Alfalfa both hay and seed other crops as needed and all of it aiming at feed yar yards with the required live stock this will win for every and any man who tries it Of course there are other crops on his lan land 1 For instance some o othe of the nicest potatoes you could wish for were grown this year on his upper upper upper up up- per farm Feeding on the man many acres of alfalfa blossoms bees occupy occupy occupy oc oc- oc- oc cupy rows of hives which dot a corner corner corner cor cor- ner sold for that purpose to a neighbor I saw lots of cattle all in goo good trim so that feeding them would scarcely result in profit Now the same conditions which apply to us all aU are just those very same conditions that Charlie Burke confronts yearly And by doing the same as he has done others will find fine greater and greater success Possibly some wish to specialize in dairying or str straight cattle feeding feeding feeding feed feed- ing on pulp meal hay etc and ye yet others who will tie to beets These fit in exactly with what I claim to tobe tobe tobe be proper farming suited to our con con- 1 War Yar as a palliative of Ins insanity Is n a theory unfamiliar to most people but we have no reason to doubt the conclusions conclusions conclusions of Doctor Oswald of the Glasgow Lunatic as asylum lum on the matter says sn's the London Globe One phase of the subJect subject subject sub- sub Is instructive and significant This is s the removal of the powerful effect of poverty on the mind and its replacement replacement replacement replace replace- ment by the higher standards of living un und and 1 remunerative employment Poverty Poverty Pov Pov- ert erty and und unemployment are thus by medical testimony more fertile causes of Insanity than war That Is s a lesson to be borne In mind when the war Is I 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