[Illustration: Hon. R. W. Dunlap, Kingston, Ohio, graduate of course in agriculture, Ohio State University, 1895, noted football player, state senator, state dairy and food commissioner. Farmer and institute lecturer. Introduced alfalfa fourteen years ago into his farm and community. Introduced commercial fertilizers and raised thereby more wheat from 50 acres than his father did from 150 acres, thus convincing his father and neighbors that when rightly used commercial fertilizers paid. Mr. Dunlap claimed that the agricultural college made him a farmer, because when he left for college he had no intention of returning to the farm.]
The Young Farmer
Some Things He Should Know
_By_
THOMAS F. HUNT
Imperial man! Co-worker with the wind And rain and light and heat and cold, and all The agencies of God to feed and clothe And render beautiful and glad the world! --_Stockard_
NEW YORK ORANGE JUDD COMPANY
LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Limited 1913
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Entered at Stationers' Hall _LONDON, ENGLAND_
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS 1 II MEANS OF ACQUIRING LAND 14 III FARM ORGANIZATION 31 IV OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURE 44 V WHERE TO LOCATE 57 VI SIZE OF FARM 64 VII SELECTION OF FARM 71 VIII THE FARM SCHEME 88 IX THE ROTATION OF CROPS 101 X THE EQUIPMENT 109 XI HOW TO ESTIMATE PROFITS 117 XII GRAIN AND HAY FARMING 135 XIII THE COST OF FARMING OPERATIONS 148 XIV THE PLACE OF INTENSIVE FARMING 162 XV REASONS FOR ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 172 XVI RETURNS FROM ANIMALS 185 XVII FARM LABOR 195 XVIII SHIPPING 210 XIX MARKETING 220 XX LAWS AFFECTING LAND AND LABOR 233 XXI RURAL LEGISLATION 248 XXII RURAL FORCES 268
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know
- 2: 000 he would invest it in a farm
- 3: Two thirds of the total ration is digestible
- 4: No matter how thorough his previous training
- 5: The amount to be invested will include
- 6: Placing a mortgage upon the farm
- 7: They charge a cash rent for pasture
- 8: The tenant supplying everything else
- 9: Gross sales may be estimated at $20 an acre
- 10: When an employer is seeking a man
- 11: Two years a student at Iowa State College
- 12: The other son started a cold storage plant
- 13: Or he could invest his earnings elsewhere
- 14: Harnessmaking was not what it used to be
- 15: Reuben does well if he come out even
- 16: Beginners receive from $800 to $1
- 17: We have been an agricultural people
- 18: The main crops are spring wheat and oats
- 19: It is desired to obtain a gross income of $4
- 20: Until at 560 acres no profit would be obtained
- 21: Others of 160 acres and still others of 80 acres
- 22: That chestnut soils are undesirable
- 23: Contain only eighty acres of tillable land
- 24: Which includes roadways and shipping facilities
- 25: The young farmer may well consider
- 26: A piece of land may be adapted to cabbage
- 27: Assuming a legume in the cropping scheme
- 28: Where there is plenty of yard manure
- 29: If one visits a high grade breeder of dairy cattle
- 30: During 25 years the four crops of maize
- 31: The clover is plowed for maize
- 32: The annual cost of the machine at 15% will be $18
- 33: Corn binding harvesters and lime spreaders
- 34: His principal crops are celery
- 35: All expenses may be subtracted from all the sales
- 36: The other half is to consist of maize
- 37: Averaged over 30 bushels per acre
- 38: The purpose of taking the inventory is twofold First
- 39: In estimating the inventory at the end of the year
- 40: The average yearly receipts were about $25 an acre
- 41: If no product constituted 40% of the gross receipts
- 42: As the amount of cereals is concerned
- 43: 2 The cereals bring a quick return
- 44: Financial panics have their origin in crop failures aided
- 45: Not more than 50% increase upon these figures
- 46: 89 worth of potatoes from 18 acres
- 47: Cost of producing farm crops in minnesota
- 48: 50 and of maize at $6 per acre
- 49: Truck farming and floriculture
- 50: Each fruit has a restricted climatic range
- 51: Why the commercial orchard must
- 52: Which the care of domestic animals imposes
- 53: And land partially covered with trees
- 54: The more productive will be the soil
- 55: The decrease in the production of maize was 30%
- 56: On account of their prolificacy
- 57: This is obtained by feeding 35 pounds of maize silage
- 58: Had a beautiful farm home near Harrisburg
- 59: Not including the owners of the farms
- 60: As a right to thresh with a flail
- 61: Employs his machinery continuously
- 62: Sheaves heaped on sheaves here thicken up the ground
- 63: Here the retail vender of meats comes
- 64: Is combined with nine fast freight lines
- 65: Zones or belts have been recognized
- 66: Has the principal wholesale market for peanuts
- 67: Divided equally between seller and buyer
- 68: Sheep and hogs seldom sell horses
- 69: 2 chattels or personal property
- 70: Among the things held to be fixtures
- 71: If the seller is a married woman
- 72: Laid out into townships each six miles square
- 73: A number of these acts affect interstate commerce
- 74: And the dishonest manufacturer
- 75: Garbage tankage and pulverized natural manures
- 76: Gypsy moth and brown tail moth
- 77: Particularly control of the traffic in oleomargarine
- 78: And those of the farmer or landowner on the other
- 79: Its material resources are enormous
- 80: Illustration Jared Van Wagenen
- 81: Which prevent the ordinary social relationships
- 82: But it makes possible a modern system of plumbing
- 83: Send for our large illustrated catalog
- 84: 50 The Business of Dairying By C
- 85: 50 Farm Machinery and Farm Motors By J