Nebraska advertiser., 1858-05-13
Farm and Garden.
From Emsry's Journal Of AsricOlture.
VIII he SueeeedP


Will he succeed 4? is the oft repeated
question of discussion, when neighbors
meet and gossip over the affairs of others.
Don't know" says Jacob, she's a mighty
stirring fellow, but he's got big Job on
his hand-two thousand dollars IN debt
on a quarter section Of land, and the
whole to be coined out Of the soil three
years. Yes, the whole to be elaborated
from the chemicals now slumbering in the
soil, in the shape Of carbon, nitrogen, oxi-
gen, HYDROGEN, sui lphates, phosphates,
carbonates, heat, light, and electricity.
o, yes! there's elements enough in the
soil and out of it, 10 bring the two thou
sand dollars to the surface in a palpeble
form, provided nature and art succeed In
producing the atomic combinations neoes-
sary TO the production of good crops, and
provided the price of grain is remunera-
tive, and provided-but tell you Tho
mas, wouldn't stand in his boots for all
he'll make in the tree years, constantly
harrassed by that debt, and more likely
than not, the chinch bugs destroying his
wheat, the army worm moving his oats
and barley, the frost killing his corn,
horses dying with the bots, cows with the
hollow horn, his children sick with the
measles, and himself stretched on a bed
of sickness with a fever, and-deliver
me from such fix. fear the poor fell
low will lose all he his worth, we'll pity
his wife and innocent little ones, that
do"
"Well, Jacob, your tongue runs this
morning, like it was oiled; but your view
of his case presents a doleful picture of
his future suCcess-all disasters, from be-
ginning to end. Now, l predict that
Joshua Naylor will come out all right, and
be worth in five years more than either
of us. ''Pshaw! Thomas, you are wild
as hare"
Four years from this date, the two
neighbors met again, and renewed the
same subject. "Well, Jacob, my prophe-
cy is fulfilled; the two thousand dollars
are paid, he has good house and barn,
his farm is well fenced and in good tilth;
he has fine stock of blooded cattle and
horses, and is worth more money to day
than either of us who have been farming
here for the last twenty years. y ''
AtYes, Thomas, | beheveyou are right:
but how is it that the man has got along
so fast and so we'll? There is a mystery
about it l cannot understand; can you ex.
plain? ?' IL do not know that l can sa.
tisfactorily, but this l know, he alway:
bought the best stock and the best tools
he could find, and then took good care Of
them; he plowed his land deep, kept il
blear of weeds, and saved all his manure
had everything done in its season anC
well done; lived well, but economically
and attended personally to all his bust.
ness; and further, l know he had a regu.
lar library of books, and takes seVera
agricultural papers; and further still, he
told me himself, that he farmed it in ac.
cordanCe with the well established truth:
of experience, as taught in his books anC
newspapers. Now you know as much
about it as l do" '.Well, Thomas, there
may be more in book farming than / hat
supposed. - ~ -. .
Joshua Naylor succeeded; and why g.
Because he added the lights of experience
to the innate or acquired elements o
success in his character. Those element
were, concentration of mind on a definite
object, with a will to dare and to do;
judgment capable of seizing the mos
available means, and successfully apply
ing them to the object in view, and al
indomitable perseverance that knows n
failure. He wiped out with the spong
of determined will, from the code 0
his life, Il dare not, ,""I don't know, )" an,
Il can't" and substituted in their stead
81 dare" Il can," and 81 will" A fix
ed and unwavering determination to sue
ceed, backed by an untiring perseverance
is a sure palladium to success, a fortun
in reserve to every lucky possessor.
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