EQUIPMENTS NECESSAEY 95 



be treated so as to make it produce the products 

 in quantity that make the business of farming a 

 manufacturing concern that pays dividends. 



We have said that some of the essentials of the 

 successful manufacturing plant are the buildings 

 and the proper machinery and equipments to man- 

 ufacture the finished products, but these are use- 

 less unless the raw material that goes into the 

 structure of the finished product is available and 

 at a price which, plus the expense of the manufac- 

 turing, will afford a profit. There is yet another 

 item, without which the foregoing will be useless, 

 and that is the element of labor, the skilled and 

 unskilled workmen that constitute the force or 

 the life and energy that moves the mechanism of 

 the entire plant and pushes to completion the 

 finished product. 



In the business of farming, the home, the barn, 

 out-buildings and open sky are the buildings ; the 

 plows, the harness, and other farm implements 

 are the machinery of the farming plant; and the 

 seed and grains for planting, the live stock and 

 the soil, are the raw materials to be worked up 

 into the finished products of the farm. All the 

 essentials of the manufacturing plant mentioned 

 are necessary for the production of the finished 

 product, a lack of any prevents production. A 

 poor quality of either machinery, appliances, la- 

 bor, or raw material, means a poor or shoddily 

 finished product. And the same is true of the 

 business of farming. 



The buildings must be sufficient to house the 

 working man and the live stock; the soil must be 

 of the quality that will produce its maximum; the 



