The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-07-18
60 TO FARMING.

NOW EAkAkkS OET ALONGs-A luImet
who lives neart Port Byron told US yester-
day that he came to this country Eve years
ago, with family Of nine, and just seven
dollars in cash to begin the word upon. He
has now farm of two hundred acres of a.
rich land as ever the sun shone upon; good
house, reaper, mower, plenty of horses,
stock and "siller" to spare. He will harvest
this year hundred and thirty-fve acres Of
wheat, afty Of corn and fifteen Of cats. He
will have several thousand bushels Of grain,
which will be worth, if there ia an average
yield and price, not less than FIVE thousand
dollars. Since he has been in Rock Island
county he has sold all his wheat at an ave-
rage Of dollar bushel. This is only one
instance Of how farmers succeed in the
West.'-Rock Islander.
We have often wondered, and do still
wonder more than ever, why more Of
our young and middle aged men do not
adopt the business Of Agriculture, as their
life pursuit. Scores and hundreds of har-
dy and strong young men are dragging out
the best and most important years Of their
lives rs clerks and ook.kccpers, and in the
called s'lcarned profession, - in our towns
and cities, making barely enough to live
upon, cropping along rs slavish subordinates,
and wearing out their energies Of body and
mind in unmanly and Improbable employ
ments, who, if they would abandon the
town, and settle down as quiet and indus
trious farmers, could render themselves
rich, prosperous and independent in a year
or two.
1t requires but little capital for man to
establish himself as q farmer in this western
country. Lands are cheap and easy Of cul-
tivation, and amply productive. A little
work, and occasionally some hard work is
necessary, but it is not half rs wearing and
slavish rs that of the Office and the counting
room. 1t is manly, and renders one strong
and healthy, and great in body and soul.
The young man who has even small sum
in his possession, can find no better or safer
or more judicious investment than the soil,
if he has only energy enough to 60 to work
with the hands which his Creator has given
him to work with-andhe can find no nobler
occupation than that Of tilling the soil and
producing the reform that which will feed
himself and his fellow beings. In one year
he can realize enough from the products of
one hundred acre farm to pay for every
acre Of it-and then be an independent man.
In what department of labor or business can
greater Inducements be found to engage
ones attention. ..
And then the eonsideration-all impor-
tant to man Of earnest mind and loving
comfort-of having a home Of ones own,
and the proprietor Of goodly portion OF
earth's broad surface, is worth the effort OF
any man who appreciates the true objects Of
life. We need more farmers--many more.
One reason why the prices Of food and the
means Of living are now SO high, 10 that
there are too many consumers and not
enough Of producers. While tho broad
acres of the west lie unoccupied and uncul-
tivated, the towns and cities of the west are
crowded with men who produce nothing
though consuming the products of the soil
continually. Were every acre under tillage
and made to produce its due proportion OF
fruit or grain, high prices for the necessa-
rics Of iife would be unknown, and all class
es could live beyond the reach Of poverty.
Wisely would they choose, should many Of
the young men who now rush thoughtlessly
into tho 'professions," which are already
overcrowded, prefer the pursuit Of sgric0-
ture to that Of any other. Then, instead Of
being obliged to weaS out their lives -
mere employees, and always poor, they
could live ike the farmer the Rock Islander
speaks of, soon get good farms Of their
own, and be free, independent and prosper
Gus, as we'll as useful and long lived and
have occasion to thank God, that they are
men not mere things. -. ...-.--
60, young man and be . farmer. And it
you know not how to farm it now 60 to
work and learn, rs you can do, il you have
ordinary capacity OF mind in q years time.
1t will "pay'-be assured Of that--and yoo
will be a happy as well as nseful man, and
have reason to feel better satisfied with
yourself ever AFTER Chicago Daily Jour
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