Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1916 — City Man Can Tell Farmer How to Run His Business But Can’t Do It Himself [ARTICLE]

City Man Can Tell Farmer How to Run His Business But Can’t Do It Himself

Ton often hear it said that farmers are not good business men! Many a city man spends a short vacation in the counfry and comes back to lay down the law about “business effl- ; ciency.” According to him all these farmers need Is a business system—all the rest would follow it. But what about the business men who have tried farming? inquires the Rural New ‘Yorker. Thousands of them have bought land and started farming with abundant capital, scientific advice and the finest of business training! How many of them make their farms pay even with their thorough knowledge of business? If they were forced to run a farm with the capital and equipment within the reach of the average farmer they would go bankrupt in less than a year. Their business training is based on capital and credit always within reach, and as tage they fall to make a farm pay profit nine times in ten.