The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-23
a. Make Farming Fay.

~ Nas<e Farming Fay.
John Rusticus made the following
remarks on how to make farming
paw" before the Freedom, Wis, FARM
er's Club;
You ask me to tell yon how to
make farming pay. | will tell you
Of some things that viii pay, and
Others that will not.
1t viii pay to thoroughly under
stand your business and make a bust
ness Of what you understand il does
not pay 10 go into farming and know
nothing about farming.
1t will pay to take and read good
newspapers. II will not pay you to
whine that you can't afford to take a
paper aud that you have not time to
read one.
II will pa, TO know something and
use common sense 10 your farming
operations, but it viii not pay to be
ignorant.
II will not pay to invest all you
are worth in land and then attempt
to farm with no working capital but
it will pay TO employ more labor on
less land.
1t may pay to sell wheat at 81 per
bushel; it will not pay to raise ten
bushels per acre. 1t may pay TO raise
twenty. but it will paw better to raise
thirty.
1t will pay to buy labor-saving ma
chinery and use il; but it will not
pay to spend more meney for machi.
merry than all the crops you raise will
sell for. Neither will it pay to leave
your farm machinery and tools stand
ing in the field over winter. In 60
ing to Appleton, the other day, ]
saw three plows standing in the fur
row. a seeder aud a sulky rake stand
ing in the field where last used, be-
sides several harrows and %eultivators.
| hope that none Of them belong to
members Of our club.
Itpays TO study the wants of the
market and to raise those pr0duc-
tons which viii End quick sale and
a fair price IN home at least
do not attempt to sead bulky articles
20 a distant market. 1t NAV pay TO
shin wool and cheese while it will
nos pay to ship potatoes yet with a
good home market patatoes may pay
the best.
1t will pay to get a name for pro-
ducing and selling a lirst-class article
Of any kind but il will not pay to
sell a poor article for ~irst-class.
1t pays 20 keep good stock it will
not pay to buy improved stock at
fancy prices and then neglect to take
proper care Of it-better improve the
stock YOU already have.
II does not pay to go with a rush
from one thing o another. IL G. hap
pens to make a good thing out OF cab
bage, don't all 90 to raising cabbage
the next year. If you do you will
be very apt to have mere cabbage
heads than you can dispose of.
1t will pay to be thorough and
workmanlike in all you undertake TO
do-to have a plan and work to it,
doing your work in the right way
and at the right time. saw a man
blowing his corn ground last fall, but
before be could plow be had to now
the weeds and grass, rake them into
piles and burn them. Now, although
that nan was fulfilling the Scripture,
which says "the tares shall be gath
cred in heaps and burned" yet would
it not have paid better il he bad en-
ployed hat labor with the hoe and
cultivator in June?
1t pays to carry something to sell
every time you go to market. 1t
will not pay TO growl and grumble
about har1 times and the scarcity of
money when you have nothing to
sell.
1t does not pay 20 patronize light
ning-rod perambulatOrs, gift enter
prises, nor any other agents W o go
travelling around the countrv-uot
even if they trust you.
1t will pay you to buy what you
really need in the shape of seed and
implements or home comforts. 1t will
not pay for any man, community or
nation to buy more than they sell.
1t will pay to raise fne fruit and
vegetables, fine stock, to keep sheep,
and COWS, and hogs, and fowls, and
bees it will pay to make your home
pleasant and attractive, to give your
children a chance to know something
and be somebody it pays to be hon
est, to be a man it will pay to be a
farmer.
But whether farming pays or does
not pay, depends entirely on the man.
on the material you make the farmer
Of. You cannot make a successful
lawyer, or doctor, or merchant out
Of a blockbead. Neither can you
make a successful farmer cut Of every
ignoramus who attempts farming be-
cause be does not know enough to do
ANYTHING else.