The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-12-24
The Valus Of Brains.

continuallyon How to make the farm pay"
Is enough to make a horse sick People
should know by this time that fortunes do
not grow, but are made. Once in while
one may stumble over a fortune, as lightn-
ing strikes a tree but these are Providen-
tai occurrences aud are not in the every
day hands Of man. A man NAV have the
most fertile soil and raise the biggest kind
of crops but if he has not brains enough
to know how to 90 about selling what he
has to the best advantage, somebody else
will reap the best profit, not he Or he
may have the best knowledge in the world
as to where the best market is, and the
best knack Of finding out who will give the
best prices but if he has no Judgment as
to what crops to raise, or how to grow
them, he does not get along. How to make
the farm pay is altogether a matter Of brains
1t Is no more Of a practical question than
how to make the store pay. Not more
than half the men in the world have any
brains to spare The other half have more
than they need. They spare a little for
those who are short but charge big in
terest for the use thereof
a piece of public work is to be done,
and, here are hundred men to do the work,
but ninety-nine don't know how to 60 about
doing it. They can work when directed,
but who is to direct The one steps cut,
and some OF his brain is loaned to the other
ninety-nine. He makes twenty-five or per
haps fifty cents day on each-clearing
twenty-five or perhaps fifty dollars day.
IG no ha Of
brains. Without this the men could do
nothing. They could not earn their salt
Our dark skinned friend was not far wrong
whca he Indignantly denied that he had
charged one dollar for killing the calf It
was only fifty cents for killing-the other
was for the ''know how"
If there Be not more money made at
farming than there is, we take it to be for
the want Of spare brains. Brains to loan
out as capital to Other men who have none
There IS a good deal Of truth in the popu-
lar saying that no man can get rich by hard
work. But this large grain Of truth is only
50 when it has to pay large tax to the
brain that directs it. The employer gen
orally works harder than the one he en-
ploys. After he works at hard manual la
Dor for years, using his surplus brains to
make little more than his daily needs,
and to put that little away and when the
time comes to loan his surplus brains, he
has to work early and late to keep his busi-
ness together while the laborer knows
just when his work is done 1t is not that
the employer has no hard work to do. 1t
is not that he making money by hard work.
He is simply making money by the loan Of
his brains to those who have not enough
Of their Owu, or have not had time to lay
by sufficient Of their surplus brain earnings
to loan to others in the same way.
To make the farm pay, then, one must
be a capitalist-have brains to lend. Yet
how many ever think of this ? BY ones
own personal labor, boy or man, or half
dozen horses only, how can one make
much ? We never could see why a farm
might not be carried on as any other bust
ness is-by the employment Of large num-
bers Of men who have no idea how to man
age themselves or what is the same thing,
the larger use ofmachinery so rs to do farm
ing work on a large scale.
This is the basis of I'LL the fortunes that
are made There is no other regular way
to make them We are perhaps a solitary
man standing in his little Office in crowd
ed city, handing bits Of paper in some com
merical transaction, employing no one
But he really has hundreds of men in the
back ground paying their little tributes of
a few cents only perhaps for the use Of his
brains, doing for them what they are un-
able to do for themselves.
And We are quite sure that those far
mers who have most money from their call
ings are those who have employed the most
men, not recklessly and foolishly, but wisely
and well. Business-the farming business
inc,uded-is not mere chance game. 1T
is an art-an art like the art of war and
as in war Providence generally smiles on
the heaviest battalions. We want first a
general with an abundance of brains; then
the more men he has to loan them to, the
better fer his cause. Gcynsont01cl, Tee
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