Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1914 — Farm Less and Make More. [ARTICLE]

Farm Less and Make More.

Some men go on the theory that if farming Is a paying business and a good thing, more of it will pay better and will be a better thing. If a man could do a lot and do it as well as he can do the right amount, there would be no reason why this theory wouldn’t stand the hard knocks of practice; but no man can hire work done as well as he can do it himself; that is, farm work. And here is where the overreaching farmer falls down.

Of all farms in the United States those paying best per acre are the 40 and 80 acre farms. It Is true that there are some Instances that almost anyone ean cite where the 200, 800 and 400 acre farm is paying the best, but we speak of farming as a whole—of the average farm in the United States. . We know of no better advice right now than that of a far-seeing farmer of fifty years ago who said: "The man who gets hold of only what land he can farm and farm with his own hands, Is going to be the contented and prosperous man of the future; get this much and leave the rest for the other fellow.** It is an oft-repeated sentence, but real farming, real producing in the West hasn’t been stretched yet Men who are, year in and year out, farming more than they cam farm well are responsible for the low general average of all farm crops per aero, Do only what you can do well and leave the rest for the other fellow, instead of hiring him to do It for you. —Rural Home.