90 FARM MANAGEMENT 



forest trees, even though they may be a very good thing 

 for persons who can spare the investment. 



In the Eastern States, apple trees pay very well, but 

 very little return should ordinarily be counted on for the 

 first fifteen to twenty years. The best yields are secured 

 at about fifty years. The trees often continue to pay 

 until they are one hundred years old. 1 Certainly one 

 who does not have enough money to run his farm should 

 go slowly in planting apple orchards. 



Live-stock requires much more capital than crop farm- 

 ing. Pure-bred live-stock requires much more capital 

 than grade stock. Extra good pure-bred stock requires 

 still more capital. It is usually unwise for the farmer with 

 little money to buy much pure-bred stock, and it may be 

 just as unwise for the same man to keep anything but 

 pure-breds when he gets more money. 



All new or experimental things require more capital 

 than established enterprises, because of the risk. If one 

 is short of money, he should be slow to take up such 

 things. 



Types of farming that depend on extensive advertising 

 require both time and capital before they become estab- 

 lished. 



RELATION OF LABOR TO TYPE OF FARMING 



68. The type of farming must fit the laborer. - 



Many persons in the United States are prevented from 

 going into the dairy business because owners, as well as 

 hired-men, dislike to milk. Sugar beets depend on having 

 a supply of cheap labor for doing the weeding and thin- 

 ning. The cotton crop is well adapted to cheap labor. 

 The supply of pickers limits the area that can be grown. 



1 New York, Cornell Bulletins 226, 229, 262, 307. 



