The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-11-19
Success in Farming.

| Success in farming, as in all other de-
partments of business, depends on we'll
matured plans, constant care ant diligent
| labor. The farmer complains of over
work. and his hired help often complain,
and that very justly, of being overwOrked;
but there is no more necessity for this
than in the carpenter-shop, the black
smith. tinsmith, tailor, cooper, or any me-
chanical employment. The merchant and
the middleman cannot so well avoid being
overwOrked at times. as a press of busi-
ness may compel it. | have spent many
years as farmer, driving my own team
day after day, and also some years in mer-
camille business. and the hardest years of
labor were those in the store. where it ap-
peared impossible TO avoid 0verwOTk. The
boy who is worth anything 10 work will
not be liable to find an easy place 10 work
i'm the village or the city, and one VINO
does not like TO work will not be very sue
cessful in finding place at all. Young
men get SO per month IN our village
stores and board themselves, while the
same boys could get SO and board for no
harder work on the farm; but then they
might now and then soil their hands with
the hoe, or their boots in taking care of
the team or milking the cows. And yet
our farmer-bOys are anxious to leave the
farm. The man who succeeds in business
is no laggard, but must be up and doing.
He NAV not work so many hours day as
the farmer but as general IN ne 1t is more
wearing on the system. Some business
men do more work, and continue il more
hours, than is prudent, and the same Is
true of some farmers, but of this there Is
seldom any necessity.
| would not have all of the tarmer-bOys
remain on the farm, as it is from their
ranks that the business departments are
mainly filled, but the reason for so doing
is MOTTO find an easy place, for TO the ac-
tive business man there are no sOfa-cush-
iOned seats for him to lille away his time
The farmer who lays his
plans properly will not have a very
hard time he need not get up earlier than
the mechanic, nor work more hours !; and
he will be able to find as much leisure time
for reading and study, but he has less OPP
pOrtunity to attend lectures and public
meetings, and must be content with the
newspaper-accOunts of them. With the
same capital, the same good management,
and the same industry, am satisfied that,
for a series of years. farming will be found
more profitable than manufacturing, and
good steady farm hands will have more
money at the end of the year than those in
other departments of manual labor. | do
not say this to induce people to remain on
the farm, but TO show that, in point Of
mOney-making, nothing is gained by leav-
ing it.
But there is another point of far more
importance-thep particular taste of the per-
son. The farmers boy, who must put on
his best suit of clothes TO go TO market
with load of hay or potatoes, had better
be put in dry-gOOdS store at once. for he
is too nice ever to make good farmer.
There is no royal road to success, and 1t
must be pursued with intelligent diligence.
A man need know little outside of his par
ticular industry. providing that he knows
that well. Our famous mechanics are not
noted for fine scholarship, but they make
good axes, scythes, hammers, and other
useful tools, and in time earn a worldwide
fame. 1t will take long time to forget
the name of Hussey when we speak OF the
reaper, of Howe when the wife talks Of
her sewing-machine, of Brown on the sub
iect of corn planting. or of Deere when
blows are under discussion while there IS
no name in connection with agricultural
education, for all who have assayed the
task have mistaken their calling, and they
have turned out no perfect specimens
and to-day our best farmers are practical,
observing men-nOt men of broad science,
as they ought to be. but of special science.
In this we have some encouragement, for
il is lust what makes our best culuvatOrs.
-Giic01O Tribune.