Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-02
What I Know OF Farming.
ny HORACE GREEDY.

farmers at all, only by virtue of the +.
fact that each of them inherited, or
somehow acquired farm, and have |
eince lived upon and out Of it, in |
coed part upon that which it could |
not help Vroduuing-they not doing !
60 mach as one hundred fair days |
work each per annum. One Of this |
class never takes a periodical devoted !
to farming; evinccS no interest in |
county fairs or township clubs, save !
ss they may afford him an excuse |
for greater idleness, and insists that |
there is no profit in farming. As
land steadily depTecintes in quality |
under his management, he is apt to |
sell out whenever the increase OF |
population or progress OF improve. |
mcnt has given additional value to |
his farm, aud move Oft in quest OF
that undiscovered country where
idlencss is compatible with thrift.
profits are realized from light crops,
and men grow rich 10y doing moth
ing.
The opposite class of wanderers
from the golden mean is hardly so
numerous as the idlers, yet it is
quite "A large one. Its leading en-
bOdiment, to my mind, is one whom
/ knew from childhood, and who,
born poor and nOwi.e favored 10y
fortune, was rated as a tireleas work
er from early boyhoOd, and who
achieved all Independence before he
was forty years old in rural New
England township, simply by rug
Ged, persistent Labor in youth on the
farms of other men; in manhood, on
one of his own. This man was older
at forty than his father. then seventy,
and died at fifty, worn out with eX-
cessive aud UBintcrmitted labor,
leaving q widow who greatly prefer
red him IL all his ample wealth, and
an Cniy sou who, so soon as he can
get hold of it, will squander the
property much faster, and zen more
tlnWisGlg than his father acquired it.
70 Ciaas Of which this man was
q fair representative, Farmers Clubs
must prove of signal value. Though
there should he nothing else than II
Farmers Club in his neighborhnOd,
1t can hardly fail In time to make
such one realize that life need not
and should not be n drudgcry that
there are other things worth living
for besides accumu Eating wealth.
Let his wife and his uelghbor sue
ceed in drawing such a Hne into two
or three successive meetings, and he
can hardly tai. to see that tlIritt is IL
product OF brain as wei AS muscle /;
thHt he may grow rich by learn ing
aud knowing a. well as 10y dtlving,
and that even though he should not,
there are many things dtsirable and
laudible besides the accum uIation OF
wealth.
A true Farmers Club should CON
sist of al! the families residing in a
small township, SO far as they can he
induced to attend it, even though
only half their members thOuld be
present at any one meeting. 1t
should limit speeches to ten minutes,
excepting only those addresses or
essays which eminently qualified
persons are requested to specially
IreHare and read. 1t should have a
president ready and able to rrprcss
all itI~naturcd personalities, all irfel-
evaut talk, ana especially all stray
ing into the forbidden region Of
political or Theological liaputatiOn.
4 each meeting the subject Should
he chosen for the next, and not less
Than four meiIa berS pledged to make
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