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MISCELLANEOUS FARM 

 SUBJECTS 



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 PART I 



FARM MANAGEMENT. 



FARMING is a business and its measure of success depends 

 upon the extent to which, correct business principles and 

 business methods are applied to its management. While the 

 methods of farming must vary according to location there 

 are certain principles of management that are applicable to all farms. 

 Every part of the business of the farm should be conducted upon a 

 well laid out system. The most successful system of farming is that 

 which gives the largest profit, leaves the soil in condition to yield 

 maximum crops, and brings to the farmer and those dependent on 

 him the largest measure of happiness. In conducting a farm upon 

 such a system, the farmer must continually answer for himself the 

 questions : What crops shall I grow and what area of each? What 

 care shall I give these crops and the soil upon which they grow? 

 What disposition shall be made of the produce of the fields? If the 

 crops are to be sold, then when and where? If they are to be fed, 

 then to what classes of stock and to what number? What manures 

 and fertilizers shall be applied to the soil, to what crops, in what 

 season, in what quantities? What provision shall be made for the 

 protection of growing crops from insect pests and fungous diseases, 

 for storing crop products, for the protection and care of live stock? 

 When and where shall live stock and their products be marketed? 

 The repeated answering of these and other similar questions consti- 

 tutes farm management a business in which is found the applica- 

 tion of many sciences, but a business so broad and complex that it 

 must rest mainly on the accumulated experience of generations of 

 those who have followed it. Conditions of climate, proximity to 

 market, the character of farm labor, social conditions, and that great 

 enigma, the soil, have all been determining factors in the develop- 

 ment of the systems of farming that have been gradually evolved 

 in the various sections of the country. (Y. B. 1902.) 



Arrangements. A proper conservation of time and labor is an 

 important feature of farm management. The arrangement of the 

 fields and buildings may make a great difference in the time required 

 to accomplish the work of the farm. The field arrangement must 

 necessarily depend largely upon the topography of the land, but time 

 and labor can be conserved even under the most adverse topography. 



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