THE DIVERSIFIED FARM. 



Tn div&Tmift&dif arming by lrrlffa.tion.tHea the salvation of agriculture 



THE AGE wants to brighten the pages of its Diversified Farm department and with 

 this object in view it requests its readers everywhere to send in photographs and pic- 

 tures of fields, orchards and farm homes; prize-taking horses, cattle, sheep or hogs. 

 Also sketches or plans of convenient and commodious barns, hen houses, corn cribs, 

 etc. Sketches of labor-saving devices, such as ditch cleaners and watering troughs. 

 A good illustration of a windmill irrigation plant is always interesting. Will you help 

 us improve the appearance of THE AGE? 



LAND AND PRODUCTS AN EXHAUS- 

 TIVE ANALYSES. 



Our American newspapers often com- 

 ment and sometimes severely on the fact 

 that the English aristocracy have bought 

 and continue to own over 20,000,000 acres 

 of American lands located chiefly in the 

 south and southwestern states of the 

 Union. To this may be added at least 

 15,000,000 acres more, owned by the 

 people of England and Scotland, which 

 with the first amount mentioned aggre- 

 gates 35,000,000 acres. They also own 

 large bodies of land in Canada, in Ontario, 

 Manitoba and the Northwest Territory ; in 

 Mexico and in the Central and South 

 American republics, which added to their 

 holdings here will foot up a total of 75,- 

 000,000 or 80,000,000 or possibly 100,000,- 

 000 acres. But as a business or financial 

 proposition this circumstance furnishes no 

 just ground for complaint. The investing 

 British public like the investing American 

 public naturally look out for the safest, 

 the best and most lucrative avenues for 

 the investment of their surplus earnings 

 and there invest them ; that is right, it is 

 rational, practical common sense and the 

 exercise of good common sense is always 

 commendable, whether by Europeans or 

 Americans. "What the great mass of men 

 and women all over the world want and 

 strive to have is a dividend paying invest- 

 ment, a revenue ; and it has been demon- 

 strated over and over again that nothing 

 equals well selected productive land under 

 good management, because in addition to 



the revenue it yields annually it increases 

 in value and sometimes very rapidly. 



The acquisition of land by Europeans on 

 the American continent commenced many 

 long years ago and has all along been 

 growing and developing until now their 

 landed possessions in the new world are 

 enormous and yet they are not done ; year 

 by year they are extending their areas by 

 new acquisitions and they do so becaiise 

 that class of investment pays them better 

 than any other. 



In many cases where large bodies of 

 land have been secured in particularly 

 favorable localities and where its proper, 

 successful utilization demanded more cap- 

 ital than any one private individual can 

 devote to that purpose, chartered com- 

 panies have been formed and stock issued 

 and divided up with the public, largely 

 with small investors, who have steadily 

 drawn and are now drawing handsome 

 dividends from their shares. 



As my attention has frequently been 

 called to this subject I have given it con- 

 siderable study and noted many facts and 

 figures connected with it, so much so that 

 I fully realize the wisdom of this method 

 of the money grabbing Englishmen and 

 the cannie Scotchman. Let us demon- 

 strate the proposition. A recent well-in- 

 formed writer on the cattle industry makes 

 a calculation that is interesting to follow. 

 He starts out with the assumption that 

 25,000 head of common range cattle are 

 placed on a new ranch in 1898, consisting 

 of 24,000 cows and [1,000 bulls, and esti- 



