6 FARM MANAGEMENT 



"He that by the plow would thrive 

 Himself must either hold or drive." 



5. Experience necessary for success. A successful 

 engineer would not expect to buy a bank and become a 

 successful banker without some experience in the business, 

 yet many men feel that since they have made a success 



FIG. 1. One of the better farm homes in the newer part of Texas. 



in the city they can start farming without any experience 

 and expect to make a profit at once. There is probably 

 no occupation in which experience is more necessary and 

 in which so much time is required to obtain the experience. 

 City industries are very specialized. Farming calls for 

 experience with weather, diseases, insects, plant feeding, 

 animal feeding, breeding, machinery, business affairs, and 

 a hundred other things that it takes time to learn. The 

 only safe way for an inexperienced man to begin farming is 

 by working for a good farmer. If one begins for himself, 



