Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-09-10
AGRICULT u r A l..
THE "LUCKY" FARMER.

The word ''lucky'' has many applications and is
used in a variety of senses 1t Is frequently sy-
nonymous with successful" it being impossible
with many minds to imagine any other cause Tor
success than what they are pleased to term luck,
chance, or fortune. Does merchant succeed
in his business, and come to wealth and prosperity
though he may have been for long years, silent
ly and unobserved toilng early and late, managing
his affairs with the greatest skill, prudence and in
tegrity-he is q ':lucky'' man. Fortune has
smiled upon him. Providence has prospered
him. This is all true but not in the sense meant
Does a mechanic succeed in his trade-he has
been in his shop constantly: piled his business
with unfaggng industry kept his promise to his
customers availed himself of all new discoveries
relating to business and after many years spent
noticed he is discovered to be wealthy. The fact
attracts attention that he is benevolent giving
man. In fact the community look up to him. The
wonder is soon started-hoW came this man so rich ,
Oh, he has been a lucky man.
A farmer is discovered to have been very sue
cessful and as comforts multiply about him, and
the evidences of his success appear in the yearly
improvements on his farm, in his buildings, and in
the education and good behavior of his family, the
truth flashes the minds of his neighbors that he
is very lucky man.
The farmer whose domain is in some degree
above delineated is one of these lucky men. He
has always prospered from the beginning: although
many are richer than he, and many cut larger
swell in the eyes of the public, few live more com
Portable. enjoy more real happiness, or are more
useful where they live.
Our friend is now about fifty years of age, or
perhaps little less, though his hair is decidedly
of the sort known 'ssver grey He began
his life on his own account, 'poor" His parents
blessing, a fair common school education, two suits
of homespun clothes, three or four books-the best
of books inclusive, and two dollars in money, were
his capital at twenty-one. He ''hired out, a
pie of years till he got little ahead and then
hnrn hIc farr IV tod III Inp
house, got few tools, team, and few animals,
and was ready to begin. He married Miss Jerllsha
Quilt, farmers daughter, whose outfit and ad-
vantages just about corresponded with his own.-
She had never studied French, couldn't dance the
polka and as for piano music she had never heard
any but once, when she staid night in town at
MIR. Ships. But she had good health, good judg-
ment, and full supply Of a much unconsdered
artice-cOmmon sense.
Thus our friends got started. They had some
what wild farm to subdue, few roads or other
public Improvements near them, and little to do
with common demands of the neighborhood. In
such circumstances, the lucky man has made gra
dual advances. He has managed to finish up the
year little better than he began it; though
hail storm once crossed his farm as his grain
was getting ripe and damaged his crops that
it was pretty hard to make ssthe ends of the
year meet for that time ; and once epidemic
sickness so destroyed the prosperity of the neigh
borhood, and that of his family inclusive, that bu
smess considerably behind once more.
The lucky man never made any great specula-
tions of any sort. He never seems to have laid
any plans for sudden or rapid wealth-indeed no
body has once noticed that he thought much about
getting rich at ALL But whatever he has under
taken seems somehow or other to have succeeded.
Many things. however, which his neighbors have
tried he has been noticed to have left alone. When
Rohan potatoes came round, his neighbor Syder
purchased four bushels at SIS per bushel. The
lucky man bought only one potato, for which he
paid twenty-five cents, by way of having the seed
if the sort should prove so very fine. The China
tree corn never excited him great deal. He ut
tery refused to give a dollar for it, eX-
pense easily saved him, since the neishbor Slyder
paid at that rate per bushel Berkshire pigs he
thought much better of; and procured goodly
pair of shoats, the stock of which he has yet in
considerable purity. Some of this breed in his pen
have weighed repeatedly as heavy as three hun
dred and fifty lbs at eighteen months. When
the California fever broke out and all the world
got crazy about it, he merely remarked he thought
he ''shouldn' t go; - and though he expressed no
unwillingness that his sons-two of whom
grown-should try it if they wished, they staid at
home.-Prarie Farmer.