Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
Success in Farming,

Success in farming, like all other de-
partments of business, depends on we'll
matured plans, constant care, and dill
gent labor. The farmer complains of
overwork, and his hired help often com.
plain, and that very justly, of being over.
worked; but there is no more necessity
for this than in the carpenter-shop, the
blacksmith, tinsmith, tailor, cooper or
any mechanical employment. The mer-
chant and the middleman cannot 80 well
avoid being overworked at times, as a
press of business may compel it. | have
spent many years as a farmer, driving
my own team day after day, and also
some years in mercantile business, and
the hardest years of labor were those in
the store, where it appeared impossible
to avoid overwork The boy who is
worth anything to work will not be liable
to find an easy place to work IN the viii
lage or the city, and one who does not
like to work will not be very successful
in finding place at all. Young men get
twenty-five dollars per month in our viii
lage stores and board themselves, while
the same boys could get twenty dollars
apd 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 milk
ing the cows. And yet our farmer-b boys
are anxious to leave the farm
The man who succeeds in business is
no laggard, 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-
tinue at it more hours, than is prudent,
nd hn 70 frt,n 90 g.,
but of this there is seldom any necessity
| would not have all of the farmer
boys remain on the farm, as it is from
their ranks that the business depart
ments are mainly filled, but the reason
for so doing is not to find an easy place,
for to the active business man there are
no softcushioned seats for him to idle
away his time. The farmer who laws
his plans properly will not have very
hard time; he need not get up earlier
than the meChanicynor work more hours;
and he will be able to find as much leis-
ure time for reading and study, but he
has less opportunity to attend lectures
and public meetings, and must be con-
tent with the newspaper accounts of
them. 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 manufacturing, and good, steady
tarm-hands Will have more money at the
end of the year than those in other de-
partments 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
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 10 go to
market with load of hay or potatoes
had better be put in dry goods store at
once, for he is too nice to ever make a
good farmer. There is no royal road to
success, and it must be pursued with in
telligent diligence. A man need know
little outside of his particular industry,
providing that he knows that well. Our
famous mechanics are not noted for fine
but they make good axes,
sCythes, hammers and other useful tools,
and in time earn 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 sew
ing-machine, of Grown on the subject of
complaining, or of Deere when plows
are under discussion; while there is no
name in connection with agricultural ed
ucation, for all who have essayed the
task have mistaken their calling, and
they have turned out no perfect speci-
mems; 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 it is just what
makes our best cultivators. -" Rura5, ," in |
Jhtcdg0 Tribune.