The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-29
ihe Late Crisis and tsarmiuy

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Under this head writer makes the fol
/ lowing seasonable and well considered r.
marks:
Failures in business have been in orda
ior several weeks, but among the MANY VIII,
nave thus given Up all their creditors how
ieW OF them hav been farmers 1t is ,
good tlme to repeat what we have OTTER
sac before, that there is no pursuit which
oIers SO certain living as that in eonnec-
tlon with iand-gardening, farming. .,
fruit growing. We suppose no one object.
10 this. We never heard any one but wonld
readily agree that farming, or its allied 90.
cupatlons. were more sure to bring in a fair
| competency but it Is said one can't get rich
at IL and then 1T Is said to be such a dull
plodflng business. But this is lust as peo-
| pie make 1t. 1t is plodding because. as a
rule SO many undertake to push it with
700 small a capital-that is to say. try TO do
Zoo much with too little to do it with tax
| ing perhaps hundred acres when fiftv
would have been better for them.
In tbs respect farming is not different
from anything else. Any one can look
around and see men who have started into
business without much capital, and who
have TO work hard all the DAYS of their lives
This Is particularly the case with storel<eep
ers We know of men of this character.
who surprising farming was but "ploddipg';
along, started TO keep store when compare
lively young, and who have succeeded SO
Wen that they are considered well off-and
SO lhey are IN some respects That is to saw
they own store and an extensive stock,
worth perhaps SO many thousand dollars
but 1t Is question whether it is not rather
the stores which own them. For years and
~. +tnr- /,
ing till late at night, most of the time q
prisoner between the four brick walls.
They have plenty to eat in the meantime,
and wore tolorably good clothes, besides,
perhaps, having good seat for themselves
or family IN the church or meeting house.
Many OF them are now grandfathers. and in
tue natural course of events must die. and
the only satisfaction they have in looking
BACK over their long, hard-worked life is |
that when the stock and ixings are sold
theTe VIII be perhaps tritie left for their |
families. The sons and daughters have to
begin agaln-not where their fathers left off. |
but very nearly where the father started
ct, after all, farmers life need not to |
be dull and plodding. There are few per- |
suits which have so much leisure. True il |
Is that at times there is great pressure OF |
things to be done and hard work is in or |
der; but, as compared with the store-keen-
er 5, 1t Is nothing near as regular a tax on |
his attention. The pressure over. compara-
tive leisure returns; at least though there
Is always something to be done. it is never
so immediately pressing and pushing as il
= III other occupations. The opportunities
lof study and Tor social Observation-Disclosures
surely as wei worth living for as a mere
eaVihg behlnd Us a mass of acquired wealth
are mich more surely within the grasp Of
nose who cultivate the soil than those who
re tied to these neyer-endingcals To be
sure there has never been much attenti n
given among the farming community to
cultivate +" society" among themselves, but
there Is no reason why they should not
They could, II they choose, so organize
matters among themselves that both young
md old could enjoy themselves together in
IN agreeable manner, with more pleasurable
results than any fashionable set in the city
ever dreamed Of
And as to wealth, depend on it, there is
ust as much to be made at farming as at
my other pursuit, if it is followed in the
same business way. If man starts farm
ng with no capital he is, of course. little
more than laborer, and has little right to
expect more than a laborers pay III the re-
suit. If, when he makes few hundred
dollars, instead of improving his farm with
he money, and making it work, as it is the
object of most commercial business to make
,apital work, he puts it into some railroad
stock, bank stock, cooperative machine
hop, transportation company, or other
similar schemes, which are ever awake to
'atch up his small change. he will always be
among those who had no money in farming