The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-08-29

Is the fault in the man or in his bust
ness The thriftless farmer claims that
it is in the business. The merchant
makes money easy, sitting in his cool
counting room all these hot summer days,
when the farmer is sweating over his
s,ythe. He has an easy time of it, with
his pen and his yard-stick. The mason
gets his two and three dollars day, and
the carpenter rs mush. They build them
snug homesteads in the village, are out of
debt, and prosper, But the farmer works
hard all day in the sun, and gets little
more than his bread for his toll. The
business must be poor one.
Some men are so constituted, or are so
trained, that they never will thrive at
any business Sometimes it is a mental
defect that puts bar upon their pro-
sperity. They have no forecast to anti
cipate their wants, and to lay out their
work for months and years ahead. They
live from hand to mouth have no sys-
tenn in their farming, no rotation Of
crops, no Improvement planned which
they are seeking to carry out. Their
labor is put forth at great disadvantage,
because they have no skill to guide it.
Such persons have mistaken their posi-
tioa. They never ought to have at
tempted the management of farm, or
Of any other business, 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 a position
:hey will thrive, and nowhere else.
Sometimes the failure is owing to a
moral defect If the farmer has skill
and capacity to labor, he has no perse-
verance 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
Ut years. New fences are to be made,
s~amps are to be ditched, fields are to
be sub-soiled and underdraiued, and a
rotation of crops to be followed up All
these things require tenacity of purpose,
~nd persistence of effort year after year
1t is work. But the farmer has never
been disciplined, perhaps, to that strict
adherence to plan lie has been accus-
toned in boyhood, il may be, to work
only occasionally, and to fish and hunt,
and dissipate when he chose He has
no fixed habits Of labor, grows weary of
executing any plan, however wise, forms
uew projects only to abandon them, and
so wastes capital aud labor He makes
no money on account Of this infirmity.
and he would make none in any other
business that requires industrious habits.
The fault Is not in the business, but 10
the man.
There i. no charm about busb&pdry to
save man from the consequences Of his
stupidity, Or of his recklessncss Men
must bring to the cultivation of the sol
the same qualities, mental and moral
that command success in other calings,
if they would make money by farming
If they will do this, laying their plans
wisely, and investing their capital and
labor with reference to future, as well as
present results, they will make money
with more certainty than in any othe,
calling. The price of their products is
rarely so low that it will not remunerate
labor, while i. is almost uniformly SO high
a. to give it an ample reward. The bust
hess of the merchant is liable to large
losses that he cannot guard against, and
with skill and energy nine out of every
ten men will succeed in gaining a com
petencc for old age Ii man canno,
" make haste to be rich" in tilling the
sod, he has this consolation, that be is
free from those distressing anxieties, and
those strong temptations, which beset
these who will make money at all ha,
yards. 4 sure and fair reward for labo,
is much better stimulus to our indus.
try than those speculative enterprise.
which sometimes bring sudden wealth
but more frequently result in enibarrass,
mont and ruin.
There i. no reason why skillful and
industrious man should not make money
by farming. Men often turn from me,
chanical or mercantile pursuits to the
farm, and it they have done well in their
former pursuits, they arc quite certain To
prosper as lords of the soil. It is the
man and no. the business that max $