Show IDLERS DESTROY ALL CHANCES OF PROFIT 04 k k u v 1 I 1 W 41 f set rid of the old machinery and have the most up to oda date laborsaving labor sav saving 1110 kind this Is an era of efficiency hy by JOHN D A good many years ago I 1 suddenly voke up to tile the tact fact that tile tho idlers HI n the farm are tile tho things that reel keep I 1 man from making money when I 1 ame west fifteen years ago I 1 visited i big manufacturing plant at chicago ind I 1 was struck by tho the system which capt everybody and everything busy in going through tho the factory I 1 could lot see an idle man mail nor an idle idla ma ihlae everything and everybody was waa n the jump every minute no lost notion motion no loafing on tho ilia job and na as 1 pondered over tho the mutter matter on oil my way to my new farm I 1 began to realize how much I 1 had lost in tho the past hirough maintaining idle and autive things As soon eoon as aa I 1 got settled I 1 sold oft off ahree old horses I 1 hat had brought with me lie and bought two good cs ossa traded our cows that had never been up to lie e mark for two that guve gave more ellk than the four ever lid did and I 1 invested some of my capital in a flock 1 20 sheep about hens and five t f the best brood sows bows I 1 could buy in tho the county then I 1 traded on an old reaper that I 1 A q R 3 ft if vt 1 le aj t Z using the Ted teddena derA very useful lm implement in curing a crop of alfa alfalfa afa or clover had dad hauled from central ohio tor for five stands of bees and a good plow I 1 made up my mind that I 1 would ha aaa oa the best tools and the best live stock that I 1 could buy rind that I 1 would make inake everything on oil tile tho place earn caril its keep heep or know tto the boitson why I 1 had brought with me till nil old threshing machine with which I 1 used to go around through our in ohio every fall doing odd jobs of at threshing of course I 1 rando made a i little money at this but when I 1 figured out tho the ehno the ilia old machine stood idle about ten tell months in tho year and repairs I 1 had to pay for ond the thilo spent lit in hunting up jobs I 1 quickly discovered that tile tho old rattletrap had cost me a good deal of it money ioney I 1 traded tho the outfit for n t bunch ot at yearling calves and felt that I 1 had a load oft my chest within a week after I 1 lind lied made inada my trades and purchases I 1 had tho the sheep busy cleaning up a 20 cicro pasture over chickens were their living out of 0 the faulds the hoga were putting on all flesh tho the cows cowa mado mad a more butter than we could uso ue which brought us in cash every week and tho the calves wera laying money on their ribs right along everything was wording night and day of course I 1 could not make nil all the changes I 1 wanted at once hut but within i six months every head ot of live stock on a n tho the place was waa good ot of its ita kind and profitable that to la tho the main thing to invest ones capital only in things that will bring returns on the investment I 1 never before had realized how greatly handicapped the farmer la who tries to work with old halt half worn out machinery decrepit horses that cannot do more than a halt half days daya work in a day cows that eat cat more than they earn and who has baa no poultry or sheep to clean up the stuff that would otherwise go to waste vy by rny ray methods 4 1 I have made three times as much money since I 1 caro to south dakota as I 1 ever did in ohio although I 1 do not think my land la Is any better and we do not work as hard I 1 have exactly the saine same amount ot of land lana I 1 had in ohio and perhaps I 1 have learned how to farm it better but I 1 attribute what little success I 1 have hava had to the tact fact that everything on the place Is productive and that I 1 keep everybody and everything busy every minute I 1 can |