SYSTEM ON THE FARM: HOW IT WINS THROUGH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 50, 17 December 1924, Page 53

SYSTEM ON THE FARM: HOW IT WINS THROUGH.

In successful farm management, system and organisation are two great watchwords (■says an exchange). They enable work to be done more quickly, more thoroughly, and with less expenditure of money and effort. They have transformed many a farm from a place of hurry and bustle for many long hours, to a place smooth in its running and organised labor is performed at a specified time and in a definite manner. System and organisation are just as important on a dairy farm as they are in any other business. They constitute main lines that are necessary if the greatest success is to be obtained. At the head of the list in systematic management stands the plan of the day's work. This is really the backbone of the farm business. We may have land and barns and cows, and a splendid market for our products, yet without hard, everyday labor they would be as naught. A systematic plan enables a man or a set of men to accomplish more in a day. A place for everything and everything in its place; a time for everything and doing everything at that time, const? tutes a very good motto under which work may bo planned and executed. In feeding operations splendid results are secured from systematic practices. The most carefully planned farms are carrying more cows for a given area than are the farms where there is no regular plan followed. By careful planning a man is enabled to have .a perfect balance of everything. Under a carefully worked out system of cropping the farm does not run short of home-grown feeds at any critical time. System puts everything on a business basis. It enables a man to know his income and to figure his profit. Systematic, well-planned methods of management mean success. System has its place in herd improvement. The greatest breeders and improvers of live stock have planned their work and have everlastingly followed methods which they had carefully outlined. Persistent use of the Babcock tester is necessary if a dairyman is to determine which cows are most desirable as breeders. Systematic work in this will eliminate the unprofitable cows, and will enable a man to retain only the ones that are profitable. Herds have doubled their production as a result of testing for a few years. System is said to be organised effort. That being the case, it has everything to its commendation and nothing to its condemnation. Hence system on any farm is to be welcomed and not to be shunned.