. The business of farming . usiness of farmingwho produces the finest grains, vegetables, fruitsand farm animals, though he live the farthest re-moved from market will always find the buyerwilling to pay the price, wending his way throughinferior unstandardized farm produce to his door-way. 184 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING It is waste of time, energy and money, to workfor better markets safeguarded from dishonestdealers, until we first standardize farm produce,for when we accomplish standardization we havemore than half won the fight for the best safe-guarded markets. When the farmer begins tostand
. The business of farming . usiness of farmingwho produces the finest grains, vegetables, fruitsand farm animals, though he live the farthest re-moved from market will always find the buyerwilling to pay the price, wending his way throughinferior unstandardized farm produce to his door-way. 184 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING It is waste of time, energy and money, to workfor better markets safeguarded from dishonestdealers, until we first standardize farm produce,for when we accomplish standardization we havemore than half won the fight for the best safe-guarded markets. When the farmer begins tostandardize his products he becomes the true andhonest tiller of the soil, for he soon learns thathe can not successfully standardize his produce,unless he installs upon his farm the methods offertilization, tillage, protection from insect pestand the like, by which standardization is broughtto its highest perfection. So standardizationmeans greater farm efficiency, more scientificfarming, and the greater uplift of the CHAPTEE XIII THE BY-PRODUCTS OF THE FABM AND THEIKUTILIZATION IN A BUSINESS WAY THE Standard Oil Company did not begin towax rich until it solved the question of turn-ing its by-products into those numerous usefularticles of trade from which it has received un-told wealth. In its early history in the productionof its chief product, coal oil, there was an addi-tional or by-product produced that was thoughtto be without value. It was a great ingenuity set about to conserve this wasteand discovered the great wealth that lie withinit, and gasoline, paraffine, in fine, two hundredchemical factors, were produced from it and itsby-products are worth more than the oil company can pour its coal oil into the sewerand yet pay large dividends on its stock. Is it anywonder that the Standard Oil Company becamethe richest corporation the world has ever known ? For years the mills ground the farmers wheat,and dumped the brand, the wheats by-product,i
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