The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-11-26
Success in Farming.

| ucpdi tHhcHtS VI DusiHcse, GepeHus vi
well matured plans, constant care and
dilligent labor. The farmer com.
plains OF ovcr-work, and his hired help
often complain, and that very justly
OF being over-workcd; but there is no
more necessity for this than in the car
penter shop, the blacksmith, tinsmith,
| tailor, cooper, or any other mechani-
cal employment. The merchant and
! the middlcmam connot so well avoid
bcin. overworked at times, as press
of business nay compel it. have
/ spent many years as a farmer, driving
my own team day after day, and also
! some years III mercantile business, and
| the hardest years Of labor were those
in the store, where it appeared impos-
slble TO avoid ovcrwork. The bov
who is worth anythingto work will not
be liable TO fine an easy place TO work
in the village or the city, and one who
does not like TO work will not be very
successful in finding place at all.
Young men get S25 90 per month in
our village stores and board them
selves, while the same boys could get
$50 90 and board for no harder work
on the farm but then they might now
and then soil their hands with the hoe,
ortheir boots in taking care of the team
or COW. And yet our farmer BOYS are
anxious to leave the farm The man
who succeeds in business is no lag
gard, but must be up and doing. He
may not work so many hours day as
the farmer. but as a general thing it is
more wearing on the system. Some
business men do more work, and con-
time it more hours, than is prudent,
and the same is true of some farmers.
but Of this there is seldom any neces-
sity.
| would not have all the farmer-boys
remain on the farm. rs it is from their
ranks that the business departments
are mainly filed, but reason for so do
ing is not to find an easy place, for TO
the active business man there are no
sofa-cushioncd seats for him to idle
away his time. The farmer who laws
hls plans properly will not have 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 opportunity TO
attend lectures and public meetings,
and must be content with the news
ofthem. With the same
capital, the same good management,
and the same industry, | am satisfied
that. for series of years, farming will
be found more profitable than manu-
featuring, and good steady farm hands
viii have more mony at the end of the |
year than those in other departments
of manual Labor. do not say this to
enducc people 10 remain on the farm. !
but TO show them that, in point of
nothing is gained by
leaving it,.
But there is another point of far /
more importance-the particular taste /
of the person. The farmers boy. who |
must put on his best suit of clothes TO (
60 to market with a load of hav or DO 1
tatocs, had better be put in dry /
goods store At once. FOR he is too nice /
10 ever make good farmer. There is |
no royal road to success, and it must
be pursued with intelligent diligence.
\ man need know little ontside of his /
particular industry, providing that he I
knows that well. Our famous me-
chanics are not noted for fine scholar
ship. but they make good axes. scythcs.
hammers. and other useful tools. and
in time earn a worldwide fame. II
will take long time to forget the
name of IIussey when we speak of the
reaper. of Howe when the wife talks
Of her sewing machine. of Brown on
the subject of corn planting, or OF
Deere when plows are under discus
sion: while there Is no name in con-
lection with agricultural education.
'or all who have essayed the task have
mistaken their calling. and they have
urned outno perfect specimens and
o-day our best farmers are practical.
mcn-got men of broad
science. aS they ough, 10 be. but of
pecial science In this we have some
for ii is just what
makes our best cultivators.