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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1914)
'- ' . The Goinmbiier VOL. fN0. 32 M." t 6 -' r fT. "'.ttij i. - 'w. . v-'f '. ;-, &$, ,V. . . . It" FOR SALE ' ':' fcl-1. SB - -'.- .-V I' ?,:.- ., . -" -i' (- , ... P" . .. . . '' ; U ' I .V ! r K.' It 2 ,fW fc in ? ! I' r1 r 8" ft If ! P " mm K s.w.- x? . U" . , Tifa y Bl a l' PC A v I? under have -V.v .- An' Improved Farm of 200 aereSj tion, three miles from Mission, Texas. This farm is in the Rio Grande Valley. I not time to look after it It has a house costing & $2,500.00, with bams and outbuildings to match; fj is fenced and in cultivation. - ' . . . : ' I am willing to sell for less than the price at: which unimproved land in that section is selling ijf.r;:- ,). ; SC- ArlccW T RRYAN I TNPOT N NFRP ia4. i 4 : : : L t : .. s. . .., . In the Field of Agriculture ' PITFALLS FOR THE CITY MAN WHO "WANTS TO BE A FARMER v The United - States department of from city people "Who have read glowing accounts 6t tlie wealth that may be made on the farm. A largQ percentage of these people have aV ready bought farm land. Some of them appear to believe ;that the. rea sqn all farmers are not rich is be cause of extravagance, wastefulness," ignorance, and a lack of . business; ability. To these letters the depart ment's specialists reply -much as fol- lows: ,"As a matter of fact, farmers as a. class are intelligent, industrious, and economical, and many of them .are men of good business judgment. Further, those who have made a thorough study of the business side of farming know that it is not an easy matter to make money on the farm. Only tho most practical and experienced farmers are making any considerable profit out of their bus iness. Most of the money that haa been made on the farm in Tecent years has" been made, not by farming, but by the rise of price on farm lauds. In the nature of things this rise can not continue indaflnHGlv. and some one will own this land when the price become practically stationary or perhaps starts to. de cline.. "While it 13 true that occasion ally a city bred family makes good on the farm, this is the oxconHnn and hot the rule, tt is always a risk to invest in a business without first making" a thbrough study of that bus- I iSOUTHERN! IDAHO IRRIGATED LANDS No drouths. No floods. No crop failures. Mild winters Cool summers. Good water rights. Land very fertile and. pro ductive, . Price $45.00 per acre up for fully paid up water right For further information write W. B. MILLSON I X sr: i iness. Many city people who have saved up a few hundred dollars and who have had little or no farm ex perience, but who are imbued with a rosy vision of the joys and prof its in farming, buy poor land at. high jjiiuaa uuu mereuy lose tne savings they have been years in accumulat ing. One city family paid $10,000 cash and assumed a $12,000 mort- f?genAftn aAfaTm wortli only about $11,000. Another paid $2,000 cash and signed a mortgage for $6,000 on 5Ufa t5at.w? later aPPraised at $3,000. A city family that hnrt onvnH $2,000 used this money to make a first payment on -cheap farm land, and when their eyes were opened nJ?dtliey i1 owed considerably more than the farm was worth. For seven years they have worked al most night and. day to meet the in terest, without beingable. to reduce the principal, -heso instances could be multiplied almost indefinitely. Rh?i?Ina fam' ereat care standpoint no farm tUat does not pay Ze on tlle total '"vestment, ap preciation on equipment, and Wasea 5n!nnaVCa8ea uld the city bred family attempt farming. Qenerallv the best advig-e thatcan be given to the city bred man who desires to be come a farmer is that before pur chasing a farm he work as a farm hand for two or three years. This will give him an opportunity to learn first hand many things about the business, as well as the practical side of farming. In no other way, as a rule, can he get good farm training and experience at less trouble and expense or without danger from financial disaster."' ' EARLY PLOWING AND FOOD PLANT It has, for some years been gener ally accepted that the earlier the seed bed for wheat : .prepared,, the great, er and more certain the yield secured. Most farmers have regarded-the in creased yields on fields prepared early as due to the conservation and accumulation of moisture, in addi tion, of course, to the compacting of the seed bed. It is announced by Pro fessor Call of the agronomy depart ment of the Kansas state agricul tural college, that early plowing ap pears to be of vaue because of the large supply of plant, .food liberated, especially nitrates, than because of any additional moisture stored in the soil by early cultivation. 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