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be buyer and seller, bookkeeper and manager, and have a technical 

 knowledge of his particular branch of farming. He is the whole 

 thing and so he finds the so-called industrial life a hard competi- 

 tor, while a well organi2:ed division of labor makes for better 

 efficiency and a requirement for less hours of labor. 



What shall we do? Here is a plan and ten principles upon 

 which it is founded. 



1. Employing skilled labor. 



2. Thorough and immediate supen'ision. 



3. Careful accounting of cost of production. 



4. ]\Iaking small per cent, profit on a large business. 



5. Applying supervision to a maximum area. 



6. Producing only the best and making a guarantee. 

 T. Always having something to sell. 



8. Having in mind the interest of the buyer. 



D. Getting as near to the consumer as consistent with present 

 trade relations in farm products. 



10. Buying everything at wholesale, paying cash and discount- 

 ing bills. 



To make a local application farms shall be located in Lewis, 

 Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Franklin counties. Ten groups of 

 10 farms each ranging in size from 100 to 200 acres. To be 

 located as convenient as possible to shipping points but not neces- 

 sarily near large towns. 



The location to be also governed by good roads, schools, varying 

 types of soils ; namely, sand, sand loam and soil of as much 

 natural fertility as can be bought for a reasonable price. This 

 plan of distribution would reduce to a minimum losses from un- 

 favorable climatic conditions, and make possible the largest varia- 

 tion of cropping possible in the territory covered. 



This plan would not disturb the present unit in the neighbor- 

 hood and would use present buildings and equipment without any 

 business or social dislocation. 



These farms to be worked by tenants on a share basis on the 

 same terms that farms are now rented, which would not disturb 

 any deep-seated traditions, and probably no better plan could be 

 devised at least for the present. 



