CHAPTER VI 



EQUIPMENTS NECESSARY FOB CARRYING ON THE 

 BUSINESS OF FARMING 



TO engage in the manufacturing business it is 

 essential that one has a plant or building 

 equipped with the necessary machinery, and pos- 

 sessed of the raw materials, so that the products 

 of the manufacturing concern can be prepared for 

 market, and the buildings and machinery must be 

 such that can work up the raw material so that the 

 owner can prepare and put on the market a good 

 product at a reasonable price and yet make a 

 profit. 



The farm is the farmer's manufacturing plant. 

 His chief raw material is the soil. His machinery 

 is his live stock and farm machinery necessary to 

 run his plant. He and his hired men are the work- 

 men who work up the raw material into crops and 

 the other products of his plant. 



The farm is as much of a manufacturing plant as 

 a steel or iron works, and to yield its owner a 

 profit, must be managed and worked under a busi- 

 ness system as complete in its detail and perfec- 

 tion as any by which our most successful manu- 

 facturing plants are managed and operated. But 

 a manufacturing plant, to be successful, must be 

 located favorably as to markets and of easy access 

 to raw materials. A plate-glass factory in the 



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