Show SUCCESSFUL FARMING T be successful as a a. farmer demands de de- mands of ot co course that one be adapted adapt adapt- ed to It Listen to the 1919 record of a man who likes farming who is keyed to It and in whose returns you youcan youcan youcan can see the fitting of at the man to the job Wm Vm H. H Bassett has acres of land just across the river of at which about 25 acres is swale reducing his effective land to acres Taking 27 acres in d detail tall he got from Seed alone NET and Hay besides and sells chaff for A total of at off ort 27 acres or an average of at 1 7 4 per acre But Dut wait a minute theres there's pretty near more acres yet to be heard from His beet check was the snug sum of and tons of at chace alfalfa al alfalfa al- al falfa taIta hay Add the seed crop above and Billie modestly gets not counting In that he is milking and produces 16 pounds of ot butter a week and that ho has worth of at turkeys at the lowest figure Billie Bassett Dassett came here seven seYen years ago with as his total worldly wealth a team and and bY by far tar the biggest part of at his equipment a a wife Billy would have walked out up tip the track and seen Delta for the thelast I last time any time that spring that he came here He confesses it didn't look good to him But Dut friend wife refused to budge She was here the theland theland theland land was here Billie Billio was here hero And the rolling stone gathers no moss So Soshe Soshe Soshe she kept at Dillie Billie and he kept at atthe atthe atthe the job And their work wont shows up after atter seven years yeara as and better bettor off that dob o 0 dirt Wh Why there a D. swale through that land you could hide a sheep wagon in dinged In his ears for months and months inantha for tor hadn't everyone e noticed the leman lemon hed he'd got Kot But doggedly t sticking to U St he worked that land got It in and eat Bat tight light just Just when others were moving waving to distant greener fields this man of ot the soil began to see it it opened up right before him and in 1919 there it was a producing farm tarm well worth the seven years of at toil toll put into it Figure I mt It lut for tor Seven years rears ago hat land was waa b bought for tor not to ex Gd Ii GC G per today shake 1 G e under BUnel nose note nil and dollars 1 lu u 0 nuts he doesn't bat an eye Seven years of ot a living the seventh with a living of Every year hereafter guaranteed to come up to or anyway and in in the meantime his hunk o 0 clay worth more than a hundred dollars an acre I over what he paid for it Now let us see what this successful man ties to He grows Hay and when climatically right Seed with of ot course a due acreage In Beets and gets round him Live Stock for theres there's money In the Milk Pall Pail and following with Cattle he uses Sheep and the good old mortgage lifter Utter The Pig Oh and we had forgotten He believes believes be be- Heves In manure plenty of at manure Why else does he feed teed all that live livestock livestock livestock stock For didn't he fertilize his land with over loads of manure in 1919 We took the letters of the things he raises cut them out shook them up thoroughly and then tried to see see how many different words could be made out of at them and here Is la a partial partial partial par par- list Success Competency Sixteen hours of at work a day With the man fitted to the Job a natural farmer can by dint of hard work and under the good management management manage manage- me ment t of at his wife reap like results But dont don't leave out the wH wife's management we pause to pay full tull tribute to that aid to any mans man's success success suc sue cess and to Billies Billie's especially Dont Don't say spy Those unties are passed They are not there are plenty plent of at them yet et the land is here and not yet too high to buy and with an outlook never never better Good roads good prices good homes good schools and good money to be made they they all exist at Delta |