The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-02
FARMERS COLUMN.
MISTAKES OF BEGINNERS.

satisfactory, very many laTnoIe hI0 Soue'uet
ing If there is not some new interest to which
they can give attention, with bette prog
poets of being remunerated for their pains
and labor. TO such, few words OF advice
may not be out of place st the end of the
year, when people are most likely TO turn
over new leaf, o, to consider the propri-
ETY. of doing so It is wise to consider the
propriety of cuitiVating greater variety OF
crops, for, without doubt, the Encouraging
condition OF affairs is largely owing TO our
producing but few things, and those as
rule, which are expensive to transport. But
it is also tie part OF wisdom to consider
whether a radical change to something else
will net be productive OF as great evils as
those we now abo- under. The dark side OF
the corn, grain and pork question is now
presenf ed to the eye of Western farmers, and
It's but natural that they should see ho pc
and prosperity in almost anything besides.
"Be sure You are right, then go aaea d )"
is proverb attri5 uted to Western pioneer
philosopher, end there is much wisdom, If
not elegance in the saying. But to be even
moderately sure we are right in the matter
of going into a new business, it is necessary
to carefully consider the subject in all it's
bearings. L is the bright side of new things
that first strikes our view. We are favor
ably impressed with them because they do
not seem 10 have the disadYantsges that
thnxs hare with which we are acquai nted.
The chances are. however, that there are as
many cares. dscouragrments and perplex-
tiles attending the new thing as there are
connected with the old one. These, If posi-
BILE, should be found out before anew bust
ness is undertaken Many farmer, and
many persons engaged in other pursuits,
have rushed into some business connected
with huebsndry, solely because single per-
SOD with whom they are acquainted has
succeeded in it.. They never stop to consider
that the person who was so successful was
wonderfully adapted for the business by
taste and education ; that his location was
most favorable, and the soil, climate and the
particular time in which the business was
undertaken were all most advanta geous.
Many man having read about the sue
Quinn IN raising pears, has sold all and
departed FOR Tar country" and set up for u
horticulturist. Possibly he succeeded but
the chances are t at he failed. Most likely
he was the dupc OF some land shark who
had a few ceres in fruit country, which was
Hot fruit land. Then he ordered his trees
and plants with little knowledg of them
aside from what a nursery mans catalogue
contains Fifty varieties Of pears, apples and
vines were planted where three or four OF
each were all that could be cultivated with
any show of profit. About the time this
discovery ie made, our planter has made the
additional discovery that be was "never cut
out' for 'horticuliurist, and that all tue
pains-taking in the world W aid never make
him up into one. He has learned consider.
able from experience, has paid dearly for his
instruction, but is now 100 old and too poor
to profit by what he has learned.
Some men, and we are glad to say, some women
have made money in keeping bees but they
were ordinarily persons whose instinct, we may
almost say led the I'm to the business. as the in
stinct of bees leads them to the honey hidden in
taS mowers. Leu no perBOna noWSVers WHO y
comes charmed with the speeches at conven-
ton Of bee keepers, or who had been carried away
by the mellihuous words of some patent beehive
vendor, think that h e can, without knowledge or
EXPENSE Immediately rucceed in storing honey or
raising colonies, like Grimm, Marvin or Upper
shut = small proportion OF inseets eau gather
honey, 80 only a small proportion Of human be-
ings succeed In keeping bees.
Agarnle, we believe farmers are too conserVa-
tive too prone to follow IN the deep ruts they
have been making all their former lives. Still
there are many who become dupes of persons who
are DESTROYS oil getting them to embark In new
business. for the sake OF selling their wares be
they fancy fruit trees, or patent moth-proof hee
hives, hop vines or mammoth wine p lants. These
men are not to be blamed for seeking to sell their
gonds but farmers should take time 10 consider
whether they had better buy them and take the
chances.
No farmer should go into any business aside
from farming, or into cultivating crop
without frat thoroughly informing himself abou
it, In the first insa nce no should ascertain il hS
ia by nature fitted for the bnriness. Then he
shOEd dad out whether he has the location. sol
and climate suited to the thing he wishes to pro
duce These things can be learned partly from
papers aud books, and oartly from persons whc
have had experience. Finally. be should endeav
or to and out how profitable the business is ant
What the prospect Is for ts remainirg profitable
Fortunately the farmer has winter to himself
IN which he can dc large amount OF stuoy anC
planning He has even the leisure in "nlcl
be can visit localities where crops dlnersnt IRON
those which he has accustomed to are raised. y
can spend week II need DO. In talking VIII
farmers whe have been engaged In growing IN
crop he intends to produce, and IN hearing then
,alk together in relationto it's advantages and dis