Smyrna times., 1870-02-23
Will Farming Pay2

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We make the following extracts:
:" commence my essays with this question,
because when | urge the superior advantages
of rural life, | am often met by the objection
that farming don't pay That, If true, is
serious matter. Let us consider:
do not understand it to be urged that the
farmer who owns a large, fertile estate, we'll
fenced, well stocked, with good store of effec-
tive implements, cannot live and thrive by farm
ing. What is meant is that he who has little
but two brown hands to depend upon cannot
make money, or can make very little by farm
ing.
Il think those who urge this point have a
! very inadequate conception of the difficulty
encountered by every poor young man is Sc
curing good start in life no matter in what
! pursuit | came to New York when not quite
OF age, with good constitution, good health,
fair common school education. good habits
and pretty fair trade-that Of printer [
think my outfit for campaign against adverse
fortune was decidedly better than the average
yet ten long years elapsed before it was settled
that L could remain here and make any decided
headway. Meantime, | drank no liduours,
used no tobacco, attended no balls or other ex-
penslve entertainments, worked hard and long
whenever | could find work to do, lost less than
month altogether by sickness, and did very
little in the way Of helping Others [ Judge
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better; and that OF the young lawyers and doc
tors who try to establish themselves in their
professions, quite as many earn less as earn
more than their bare board during the fist ten
years OF their struggle
, Mr.. u. mentions several instances illustrat-
ing the success that man, with his knowledge,
have achieved from very small beginnings by
r patient, intelligent, well-directed effort DE
pend upon 1t, he says, young men, it is and
must be hard work to earn honestly your first
thousand dollars. The burglar, the forger.
. the backleg whether he play with cards, with
dice, or with stOcks), may seem to have q
: quick and easy way of making a thousand dol
. lars but whoever makes that sum honestly
. with nothing but his own capacities and ener
gles as capital, does very good FIVE years
: work, and may deem himself fortunate if he
: finishes it so SOOn.'
n Probably no man in this country applied sci
= entlhc facts to practical agriculture more sue
u cesStully than Prof. j. Mapes, to whom Mr.
i Greeley refers in the first OF the following para
!. graphs. lie illustrated scientific farming
!. by raising such crops as flied those who saw
% them with wonder:
~ " Walking one day over the farm of the lat
= Prof MapeS, he showed me field of rathe
~ less than ten acres, and said, bought tha
N field for S2.4O0, year ago last September
If There was then light crop Of corn on it
which the seller reserved and took away.
A. under-drained the field that fall, plowed an,
1f subsoed it, fertlized it literally, and plantet
1t with cabbage; and when these matured
II sold them for enough to pay for land, abo
v. and fertilizers altogether The field was nov
ro worth far more than when he bought it, an
=. cleared it within fifteen months from the dat
70 OF Its purchase. | consider that good Opera
10 ton. Another year, the crop might have bee
~ poor or might have sold much lower, so a
rc hardly to pay for the labor; but there are risk
an III other pursuits as well as in farming.
~. truit-tarmer on the Hudson above New
;s berg showed me, three years since field
no eight or ten acres which he had nicely set wit
grapes, In rows ten feet apart, with beds
n strawberries between the rows from which /
in assured me that his sales exceeded 500 y,
m. annum. presume his outlay for labor, incln
bt ing picking, was less than $500 per annum
60 but it cost something to make this field what
10. then was. Say that he had spent 81 900 per ac
ho IN understanding and enriching and tllir
wp this field, to bring it to hiscOnditiOn incudiI
,a- the cost of his plants, and still there must ha,
been clear profit here of at least $500 p
acre.
90 " might multiply illustrations; but let Il
ya9 foregoing suffice. | readily admit that sh
oc. less farming don't pay-that poor crops dor
'ob pay-that 1t Is hard work to make money
no farming without some captal-that frostS,
or hail, or drOuth, or floods, or insects may bla
ant the farmer hopes, after he has done his be
so TO deserve or achieve success but insist tn;
,nt as general proposition, Good Farming do
ro pay-that few pursuits afford as good a prC
-; pect, as full an assurance of reward for intel
III gent, energetic, persistent effort as this does
NV: ~ ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Ladies' who deck tn
'uB hair with mimic bloom, have, in general, lii
.o idea Of the way in which these false flowers gr
~, They wear them light -heartedly in the gay,
~ scenes, and think not they were transplant
'ou from the saddest. They put forth their lea,
on. q" and delicate hues in sitting garrets in fe
TSI back kitchens, or in hot evercrOwded factori
Une where the health Of those who made them v
lcsS whitening away, where the gas-burners
.e' often without glass or shade, and the gas stO'
"o ~ are set on the tables to heat the tools, Will
ns1 hundred women and girls, from nine years
'ra' and upwards, bend over their hot-houSe plan
H Some hold the hand stamp which cuts thrOu
~: sixteen folds at a time of the muslin or
o,pp ip that is to make the leaves or flowers. 9th
0'' vein The leaves by pressing them between di
or paint the petals separately with bru
. when the center is to be left white. Most
ing hem are busy with the fine work of constru
ing ny the flowers. They gum and wax, dust
llrd bloom with potato -four, or with blown g
ons powdered for frost; they twist paper or S
WHY thread to the stalk, and make the foundat
pun on which the petals may stick. Slender wi
ION. are run through the blossoms, and SD
that gcffering iron gives them their curl All t
Ugh IS straining and idgety work, especially by 2
Ian light, with blistered fingers, thumb-nails W
enc to the nuick and the dust of naints and otl
eted materials iuAaminp the ewes and nrenar;nc
ace, patient for the Ophthalmic Hospitol p
rods br;gbt hines and carmines trv thc sigbt sad
and and the latter causes heaviness in the he
poor Arsenic green and verdigris blue are now
tIcal dom used; but enough is left to poison
our poor flower girls " existence. She works
our London fourteen or fifteen hours day, :
dc. sometimes longer After thirteen hours wo
ar girls often take home sufficient for two hot
more. London ReUie'o.
own -
ted A Cincinnati blonde caught her high hi