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ROEBUCK AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION
Kurnings of farmers in the same
community, w *th farms of approxi
mately the same size, with similar
soils and the same expense per acre,
ra ay differ as much as several thou
sand dollars a year, states the Sears-
Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. The
larger incomes are the reward for
superior management and the appli
cation of better methods of farm prac
tice.
Analysis of the records of 175 farm
ers for the three years, 1925 to 1927,
by the Illinois College of Agriculture
revealed that the 35 most profitable
farms had net earnings of approxi
mately $3,000 annually more than the
earnings of the 35 least profitable.
The farms in the least profitable
group averaged 214 acres compared
with 246 for the others, but the in
vestment per acre was practically the
same.
Among the factors responsible for
the variations in earnings, the most
important was crop yields, which
caused $B3l of the average annual
difference between the 35 most profit
able and the 35 least profitable farms.
The other factors and the difference
In earnings attributable to them were:
amount of live stock, $657; efficiency
of live stock, $557; kind of crops,
$304; prices received for grain, $280:
cost of power and machinery, $216;
cost of man labor, $49; and other ex
penses, S2B.
On the 35 most profitable farms the
average yields of grain per acre were
about 19 per cent higher than on the
35 least profitable farms. The use of
high-yielding, adapted varieties of
seed, testing for germination and
freedom from disease, the rotation of
crops, the growing of legumes, the
feeding of crops to live stock and
conserving manure, and the use of
such materials as limestone and rock
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phosphate, are the principal step* to
high yields. Some of these farmers
made as much as SSOO a year more
than others merely through the use
of high-yielding varieties of seed
Farmers who disposed ©f a larger
proportion of their crops through live
stock had larger net incomes than
those who sold most of their grain.
On the 35 most profitable farms, the
productive live stock returned $163
for etery SIOO worth of teed used,
while on the least profitable, it re
turned only $135. As an average of
alt the farms, live stock returned
slsl for each SIOO worth of feed.
Sanitation, disease control, the use
of legume pastures, the purchase of
high protein supplements to balance
home-grown feeds, good breeding stock
and producing so as to take advan
tage of seasonal fluctuations in prices
were the chief factors in efficient live
stock production.
The most successful farmers In
creased their incomes $304 a year by
having a high percentage. of the till
able land in crops producing higher
profits, such as corn, wheat alfalfa,
and a smaller share in low profit
crops such as oats and timothy hay
They received S2BO more because they
obtained higher prices for their grain.
They marketed when prices were good
and sold grain of better quality.
The 35 most profitable farmers spent
$216 less per year per farm for power
and machinery than the least profit
able group. The labor cost was S4O
less, and other expenses, S2B less. It
is significant that the most profit
able farms got their higher incomes
with a smaller power and machinery
cost and with less labor expenditure
; per acre than on the least profitable
! farms.
; Many of the measures taken by suc
cessful farmers to increase their in
comes can be applied as easily by
farmers in meager circumstances as
by those who are prosperous, the
Foundation adds. Through them, such
farmers can eventually join the suc
cessful group.
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THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928
TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF LAND
;
By virtue of the power of sale
contained in a certain Deed of Trust
made by Mrs. Mamie Blanton and
husband, W. F. H. Blanton. to the
undersigned Trustee, dated Septem
ber 3rd, 1924, and duly recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds
for Rutherford County, State of
North Carolina, the Record of
Mortgages and Deeds of Trust in
Book W-15 of Deeds, on page 116,
to which reference is hereby made
and default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness secured
by said Deed of Trust, whereby the
power of sale contained therein will
on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929
at at 12:00 o'clock noon, sell for cash
to the highest bidder, at public auc
tion, at the Court House door, in the
Town of Rutherfordton, North Caro
lina, a certain tract of land lying
and being in High Shoals Township,
Rutherford County, North Carolina,
and more particularly described and
defined as follows: Being in the vil
lage of Caroleen in that part of the
village known as Harrill Town and
lying on the State Highway leading
from the Town of Forest City, North
Carolina, to the South Carolina line,
being bounded on the North by the
lands of John Parker: on the East
by the lands of John Parker and on
the South by the lands of Oscar
Lynch and on the West by the lands
of Mr. Buff described by courses and
distances as follows:
Beginning on the North side of
the road on an iron stake and runs
thence North East 250 feet to Park
er's corner; thence West 100 feet
to a stake: thence South 108 feet to
a rock; thence West 23 feet to a
rock; thence South 142 feet to an
iron stake; thence East 123 feet to
the place of the Beginning, duly re
corded in the office' of the Register
of Deeds for Rutherford County,
State of North Carolina.
This the 4th day of Dec., 1928.
9-4t. R. R. BLANTON, Trustee.
If you want to sell your house and
lot or farm, or if you want to buy
property of any kind write or see me.
Chas. Z. Flack, Forest City, N.C. 1-tf
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