The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-15

WhT 49, - ral1 = 1ake Assey
Il the fault ID the IAN Of in Bis business?
Tho thriftless farnlik claims that il = in his
business. The ihse6hant makes noney easy,
sitting in biz codl counting roon Il these
hot Summer days, when the farmer j.
sweating over Ne scythe. He hes an easy
time Of Il, with his pen and yard-stick. The
mason gets his two and three dollars q day,
and the carpenter - much. They build
thcm Snug homestends in the village, are
out Of debt, and prosper. But the farmer
works hard all day in the sun, and gets lit.
Ito more than his bread for his toll. The
business must be . poor one.
Some men are 30 constituted or are 30
trained that they never will thrive vt any
business. Sometimes it is q mental defect
that puts a bar upon their prosperity. They
have no forecast to anticipate their wants,
and to lay out their work for months and
years ahead. They live from hand to
mouth; have no system in their farming, no
rotation Of crops, NO improvements plan
ned which they are seeking to carry OUT
Their labor is put forth at q great disadvan-
tage, because they have no skill to guide it.
Such persons have mistaken their position.
They never ought to have attempted the
management Of farm. or Of any other Blu
siness, because they have no capacity to
manage anything. They have nothing but
labor to dispose of, and their true policy is
to sell their labor to some man, who has
skill to guide it and make it profitable. In
such position they will thrive, and mo-
where else.
Sometimes the failure is owing to . NOR
al defect. If the farmer has skill and capa-
city to labor, he has no perseverance, to
carry out his well-laid plans. Most Of the
improvements that need to be made on the
farms of the East and North, are those
which involve the work Of years. New
fences are to be made, swamps are to be
ditched, fields are to be SUBSIDIZED and un-
derdrained, and rotation Of crops is to be
followed up. All these things require tena-
city Of purpose, and persistence Of effort
year after year. II is work. But the farm
er has never been disciplined, perhaps, to
this strict adherence to plan. Hc has been
accustomed in boyhood, it may be, to work
only occasionally, and to fish and hunt, and
dissipate when be chose. He has no fixed
habits of labor, grows weary Of executing
any plan however wise, forms new projects
only to abandon them, and SO wastes capt.
tai and labor. He makes no money on ac-
count of this inirmity and he would make
none in any Other business that required In
dustrious habits. The fault is not in the
business but in the man.
There is no charm about husbandry to
save Wan from the consequences of his
stupidity, or of his recklessness. Men must
bring to the cultivation of the soil the same
qualities, mental and moral, that command
success in other callings, if they would make
money by farming. If they would do this,
laying their plans wisely, and investing
their capital and labor with refereece to flu
ture, as well as present results, they will
make money with more certainty than in
any other calling. The price Of their pro-
ducts are rarely so low that they will not
remunerate labor, while it is almost uni
formly so high as to give it an ample re-
ward. The business Of the merchant is la
BILE to large losses, and with the skill and
capital embarked in the trade, in our large
cities, nine out of every ten fail. The
farmer has few losses that he cannot guard
against, and with skill and energy nine out
Of every ten will succeed in gaining COM
petence for old age. If man cannot SNAKE
haste to be rich' in tilling the soil, he has
this consolation, that he is free from those
distressing anxieties, and those strong
temptations, which beset those who will
make money at all hazards. A sure and
fair reward for labor is much better slim
illus to our industry, than those speculative
enterprises which sometimes bring sudden
wealth, but more frequently result in en-
barrassment and ruin.
There is no reason why skillful and in
dustrious man should not make money by
farming. Men often turn from mechanical
or mercantile pursuits to the farm, and if
they have done well in their former pur-
suits, they are quite certain to prosper as
lords Of the soil. 1t is the man and not the
business that makes money.-New York
Tfnes.