EQUIPMENTS NECESSAEY 99 



their wants and their needs and learn how to 

 make them produce the paying crops. 



So to carry on successfully the business of 

 farming, the equipment of a good fertile soil is 

 the first requisite. There is no substitute for it. 

 And not only you who are about to engage in the 

 business, but you who are already in the business, 

 must get this fact so imbedded in your minds that 

 the study of the soil and the best methods of main- 

 taining and increasing its fertility, becomes with 

 you a " ruling passion, " for there is no other way 

 to make a success of the business of farming 

 upon our farm lands that have been subjected to 

 cultivation for twenty-five or more years. 



The next necessary equipments to secure suc- 

 cess in the business of farming are, as already 

 stated, sufficient buildings to properly house your 

 family and your stock, the very best modern la- 

 bor-saving farm implements and machinery, 

 plenty of draft giving horses and mules, or other 

 power for moving implements and machinery, 

 sufficient money making breeds of stock, and suf- 

 ficient money to finance farming operations. 



But after all, is it not the "man behind the 

 gun" that counts in any battle? The govern- 

 ment furnishes the equipment for warfare, the 

 generals plan the lines of attack and start the 

 battle, but the success of the battle depends 

 largely upon the "man behind the gun." If he 

 fails in his duty, either from want of attention, 

 action, or competency, defeat and rout results. 

 In the business of farming old Mother Nature, 

 human skill and invention furnish the chief 

 equipment for carrying on the business, the 



