Show an attractive new farm life jhc thc the agriculture industry needs good managers BIa by clyde larsen district agriculture inspector do you have any boys that are large enough to help you on the baim I 1 asked a middle aged farmer tile the other day as lie he are anu i I 1 stood leaning over a pen admiring a sow with her newborn new born litter yep lie he replied 1 I got a boy stands an inch above his old dad out lie he is away to college Is lie he training to bo be a farmer I 1 inquired the od sow settled down in a corner and her little black and chite pig letts began rooting the linner jinner basket with avith much ng and squealing 1 I hope he las sense enough anous to let the farm ilone done and land hirn hi n one of them jobs so as he wont have to work and do without the way me nd ind his amther has we were silent wa waiching clung 01 one 10 f the little pigs scramble mady from one end of tile the dinner table 0 the other finally squeezing in edween its brothers ani 1 sisters chere it worked contentedly it AL would be a a fl fine ric thing albi I 1 L AL a albi L replied cp ep lied if every you young ng man coul cogul I 1 apon completing his training stop step ito his favorite occupation but in I 1 I 1 these times of unsettled conditions there just dont seem to bo be opportunities port unities waiting for all of us it is estimated in these united blat states es that there are young people of these are at wo k 4 are arc in school and COD are looking for work th s mean that these should try to bs ba ome farmes s because they cant ind anything else to do but imon imong this vast amount of unemployed there must he be a certain er who love the soil boys who long to watch the damp moist arth turn over behind the plow beam who thrill at the sight of a fine team prancing don the oad on a frosty morning and who can appreciate the finish and quality of a fat beef steer these young young men would come running back to the farms by the thousands arrs if tile the farm had gained its dooper reco recognition but bul 1 the farm if f today is known as a place where anybody who has made s E of everything else in life can go and make a g living we wc eem to forget forgat that it requires E lanager na nager a salesman ti a fidanc er i bookkeeper and a a ie ic i up in one man to make il ay the die thousands of farm fai ires many of which are due to improper management have not haken the belief of the barme s inferiority too many times we make ake sly remarks about the dumbness of the boy who graduates from college and then takes up his chosen profession of farming i il g W we e i intimate n ti m a te L that ha t t there he r e m must u s t b bo e som something e ali i ri w wrong r on g w with it h t the h e b boy 0 y an i ou bo boys s sensing this general belief on our part feel tha they are failures if upon the completion of a college course they come back to the farm to make it their lifes work instead of our thinking that something om ething is wrong with the boy if lie ho wants to be a tanner farmer why dont we ask what is wrong with the farn fam that it a fitting occupation for tho the boy at this point the sow ca got up and wandered over to the trough nico nice words that you talk replied the farmer but it is money that counts and we dont make any money here on tile the farm take myself for instance I 1 got a nice herd of cows heo he hc o but I 1 just make a bare living out of them tham what do you fec 1 them I 1 asked we vel 1 in about april I 1 turn them out on the pasture I 1 got a mighty fine pasture and they do pretty good during the summer hut but in the fall they fall down and during the winter they dont much moe than pay for their fee what do 1 you feed them the winter I 1 inquired 1001 around amund oh I 1 throw in some hay and if I 1 have any bailey or oats I 1 chop it and feed it to them wh while e it lasts Is that straw shed which is open on throe three sides the only place you have to keep the cows when it gets forty below was my next question yes lie ho replied 1 I dont make enough money out of them to afford to build them a jhc shea 1 well I 1 replied you are in the dairy business five or six months out of tile the year and the est of the time you are feeding tile the cows I 1 believe if you would raise a good patch of corn next summer and build a silage pit to put it in after it is chopped that a ration of it along with alfalfa hay or rel re J 1 clover hay bay would help korrect your feeding problems your neighbor down the road has built a fine cow shed out of native lumber with a shingle roof or lor about worth of materials tf if you C cant ant afford to go that steep etcel it would hep a lot if you jou wa would uld close that straw shed n f from three sides on these cald winter nights if a cow is warn war r ind dry and po properly perly fed she will oe able to keep up her production of milk but if she is cold or wet t takes a lot of feed to keep her warm and this robs the milk pail and another thing if you are really I 1 serious about the dairy business I 1 would stop using that thai white faced bull over the there e in the field the future of a p prosperous dairy bug business ness depends on your being abl able to build your herd ur to three hundred pound butter fat c cows s lf if you cant afford a good c dairy lair y bu bull 11 of your own it would br fine if you would join one of the bull mock block cooperatives well I 1 must be going when your boy comes home from college for the holidays he will probably have a lot newer ideas on your farm improvement pro 1 I took one look at the little pigs sleeping side by side with this thought each f farm arm is a different business set up and mus be managed differently gooe gooc managers agriculture needs you |