Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 48i 



This, in a general way, is a method used in carrying on, record 

 work by means of the farm diary. We have proved that it is 

 simple enough that any man may keep it if he thinks enough of his 

 record work. So that it is simply a question with him of whether 

 he considers the work important enough to give a little time to it. 



CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS. 



(N. P. Jacobsen, Secretary Ozark Dairy Association, Seymour, Mo.) 



The management of farms is a great problem, for it has many 

 sides and many different problems come up every 

 day. The man who succeeds in these days is the 

 man who thinks and studies his business. 



I do not agree with the person who says that 

 a man should have a large farm to succeed on ac- 

 count of being able to do the work to so much 

 better advantage. I believe the small farm can 

 be made to succeed as well as the large one, if 

 the small farmer will adopt the proper method. 



N. P. Jacobsen. 



In managing a farm, it is not enough to know 

 what crops to grow or how to grow them or the rotation of crops 

 to be used, but it is also essential to know the best way to market 

 the products and to purchase necessary supplies. It is not enough 

 for a farmer to recognize the value of growing clover in the rota- 

 tion, but he should also know something of the value of manure. I 

 want especially to call your attention to the saving of manure, for 

 there is a tremendous amount of fertility going to waste each 

 year because the farmer does not save the manure. But he should 

 know the proper way to market his product. 



Down our way it is not profitable to raise grair^ to sell, and we 

 cannot produce corn cheaply enough to go into the hog business 

 very extensively. Cattle raising and especially the dairy business 

 is what has proved the most profitable. On small farms we have 

 found that we cannot, as individuals, market our cream success- 

 fully, as but few cows are kept by each farmer. When we first 

 started in the dairy business some seven or eight years ago, we 

 took our cream to town and sold it to a merchant, who paid us his 

 own price. At first we got a good price and people started in the 

 dairy business pretty fast, as our county in the Ozarks is well 

 adapted to dairying. However, the price soon dropped and went 

 as low as seven cents below Elgin. We then organized a co-opera- 



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