TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 541 



It would be easy to modify in a hundred different ways each plan given 

 by the introduction of other crops, by varying the combinations of crops, 

 by emphasizing the poultry industry or the orchard, by combining hogs 

 with dairy cows, and so on. The plans given in this bulletin, however, 

 will serve their purpose if they suggest ways of looking at the problem 

 and estimating returns. 



THE PROBLEM OF REPLxVNNING A FARM. 



The reader who may be led by the preceding pages to replan his own 

 farm \till quickly learn how limited is the reliable available information 

 on any given phase of farming and how necessary is a broad fund of agri- 

 cultural knowledge in successfully replanning a farm. 



If he relies for the purpose on what data he has accumulated on his 

 own farm, he may be surprised to find out how limited such data are and 

 that he may not even know how much grain and hay it takes to keep a 

 horse or a cow a year, although he may have fed both all his life. He 

 may not know just when or just how long a field of peas and oats planted 

 together would be available for sheep or hog pasture. He may not know 

 the average yields of different crops that he can grow on different fields, 

 or how those yields might be increased by the use of a little commercial 

 fertilizer of the right kind properly applied or by rotation of crops. He 

 may even have to go outside of himself to establish a standard as to what 

 good farming really is and what results ought to be obtained from good 

 farming. 



If these gaps in his knowledge be made apparent through his under- 

 taking to replan his farm and he be led thereby to observe more closely 

 his farm operations, as well as those of his neighbors, and to read more 

 extensively agricultural papers, bulletins, books, and reports, one of the 

 first aims of this paper will have been accomplished. 



WHY LOW RETURNS ARE RE-Ul-IZED FROM SOME FARMS. 



Many a farmer fails to get adequate returns from his farm because he 

 stays at home too closely, puts in too many hours a day following the 

 plow, and does not often enough visit good farmers in his neighborhood 

 or other sections of the country where good farming is done. Furthermore, 

 a man physically exhausted from a long, hard day's work is in no con- 

 dition to follow and get much out of the literature of his business as re- 

 ported in farm papers, agricultural bulletins, reports, and books, and 

 without the advantage of all the information available from every possible 

 source he will find awkward situations when he comes to replan his farm 

 for profit. 



Success in farming calls for the very best effort in a man along all 

 lines. That best effort is called for in replanning a farm for profit. The 

 farmer who is dissatisfied with his income from the farm needs to think 

 seriously as to whether or not his farm is planned right for the largest 

 returns, remembering that good farming calls for keeping up the product- 

 iveness of the farm while getting maximum crops economically from the 

 soil. 



