The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-10
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Under this head a writer makes the
following seasonable and well considered
remarks
Failures in business have been In order
for several weeks, but among the many
who have thus given up all to their credl
tors, not few of them have been far
.ners! It is good time to repeat what
we have often said before, that there is
no pursuit which offe-s so certain living
as that IN connection with lanG-garden-
ing, farming, or fruit growing. We sup
pose no one objects to this. We never
heard any one but would readily agree
that farming, or its allied occupations,
were more sure to bring in falr compe-
tency but it is said one cant get rich
at it; and then it is said to be such
dull, plodding business. But this is just
as people make it. 1t is Flooding be-
cause, as a rule, SO many undertake to
push it with two small a capital-that IS
to say, try to do much with too little to
do it with taking perhaps hundred
acres when fifty would have been better
for them.
In this 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 storekeepers. We know of men of
this character, who supposing farming
was but ''plodding along, started to
keep store when comparatively young,
and who have succeeded so we'll that they
are considered we'll off-and so they are
in some respects. That is to say they
own a store and an extensive stock, worth
perhaps so many thousand dollars. But
it is a question whether 1t is not rather
the stores which own them. For years
and years they had to be about from
early morning till at night, most OF the
time prisoner between the four brick
walls
They had plenty to eat In the mean
time, and wore tolorably good clothes
besides, perhaps, having good seat for
themselves or family in the church or
Westinghouse Many of them are now
grandfathers, and 10 the natural course
of events must die, and the only satlsfac-
ton they have in looking back over their
long, haia-worked life is that when the
stock and filings are sold there will be
perhaps a trife left for their families.
The sons and daughters have to begin
again-not where their fathers left OFT,
bnt very nearly where the fathersstarted.
Yet, after ell, farmers life need not
to be duh and plodding. There are few
persuits which have 80 much leisure.
True it is that at times there Is great
pressure of things to be done, and hard
work is in order; but, as compared with
the store keepers, it is nothing near rs
regular a tax on bis attention. The
pressure over, comparative leisure re-
turns; at least though there Is always
something to be done, it Is never so I'M
mediately pressing and pushing as it i,
In other occupations. The opporiuni-
ties for study and for social enjoyment
objects surely as we'll worth living for as
mere leaving behind US a mass of &C
.auirea wealth-are much more surely
within the grasp of those who cultivate
the soil than those who are tied to these
neyer-endingcalls TO be sure there has
never been much attention given among
the farming community to cultivate so
.ciety" among themselves, but there is
no reason why they should not. They
could, if they choose, SO organize matters
among themselves that both young and
old could enjoy themselves together in an
agreeable manner, with more pleasurable
results shan any fashionable set in the
city ever dreamed Of
Aud SIS to wealth, depend on it, there
Is 9ust as much to be made at farming as
at any other pursuit, If it is followed 10
the same business way. If man starts
tanUing with no capital, he is. of course.
llttie more than laborer. and has little
right to expect more than laborer S pay
In the result. If. when he makes a few
hundred dollars, instead of improving
his farm with the money, and making it
work, as it is the obiees of most eoal-
lcercial business to make capital work
he puts 1t into some railroad stock, baak
stock, coo operative maehiae shop. trans
portstion company, or other sm,iar
schemes, vfs,ich are ever awake to catch
up his smaE change. he viii always be
among those who had made no money ia
farming.
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