The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-05-27
1T PAYS.

investment. GfODaOly no couNtiy CaH
boast of more tllablo land than the
State of Kansas Free Of the everlasting
stump, in the removal of which so much
eastern labor has been expended, and OF
the rocky hills which Yankee genius
only after wears Of almost unreluited
toll, manages TO make productive,
Kansas has countless acres of level and
gently rolling prarie-without an ob.
stacle to the plowshare-the soil OF
which completes with that of the fairesi
portions of Earth. In the centre OF the
great Union, with equal demand for heI
products on the Atlantic, Pacific and the
Gulf scaboards, no one can question the
statement that farming. within her bor'
ders must pay.
But the old cry comes up that "farm-
ing does not pay" That was the cry in
The early days of Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota. Aud still along
the great thoroughfares OF those States
to. day, millions of acres OF waving grain ,
surrounding farm houses, barns and 9TH
or buildings whose cost was away up in
the thousands, give the lie to that claim.
Those same farms not many years ago
looked not one whit better than the aver
age farm of Kansas to-day. There are
farmers in our county who came into the
Smoky Hill Valley less than fifteen years
ago without money to buy the necessa-
ries Of life. To-day they value their
worldly effects as high as twenty ard
twenty-five thousand dollars. How
many tradeomen, even, in that time
manage TO realize that amount? Very
few indeed.
The cares and pcrplcxitics of business
life constitute labor of the sevcrcst kind
The farmer also labors. Fortunes come
not as easily as those which Alladdin's
tabled lamp beciioncd, bat are achieved
only by downright hard labor. The
farmer builds his brick house and
"brown barn." fills his granaries high
and collects about him his sleek looking
stock, only by hard labor. The MGR
chant erects his "brown stone front" and
has a fine balance in bank, because he
Iabofs. Labor is the foundation Of the
success Of the tradcsman and the farmer.
If one gets rich the other can. If one
farmer finds that II pays TO till the land,
his noighbor ought 10 be able to discov-
the secret Of his success.
The prices which Kansas has paid in
the matter of wheat alone is a "vouch-
CT" for the statement that farming pays.
Men who have never done Il stroke OF
work on the farm in their lives, begin to
see that there is money in raising wheat.
They go from the towns, purchase
land, till it and realize as much money
from it as in their town business. 1t is
business and a paying one. Undoubt-
cdly tho "king farmer of Kansas" Mr..
II. {. Henry, of Abilene, who has about
1900 acres in wheat this year, is of the
same impression. And that there is
money in wheat growing must be mani
fest TO him, as he has, we understand,
already been offered but refused $4,000
for that growing cop, $4,000 of which
would be clear profit 10 him. Can any
Of our readers tell what business we can
go into which will pay us better
than Honry's speculation" in wheat
growing.
We are>tired of the old, old story,
"The poor, Cypress farmer" lie is the
most independent man on the face Of
the globe. lie can get rich the same as
other men. The poorest farmer is far
better off than the laboring man of our
cities and has not one sixteenth of the
so-calIed oppression. A poor farmer is
not worse off than any other poor man.
A shiitless farmer can get rich as soon
rs any other shiftless man. An extrav
agant and improviient farmer stands
the same chance for making money rs
the extravagant and improvident trades
man. There are farmers in Saline county
as we'll off in worldly goods as any bus
mess man in Salina. With such men
farming is business and they feel proud
er of it than they would of any other.
Thoy made their money-not by grum-
bling at their condition and calling all
men scoundrels except the ullers of the
soil, but by hard blows and patient toll,
well knowing that all classes make mon
ey only by hard work.
With every inducement offered for
successful farming-in a land where
farming is easier than in any other
country-a man cannot make = success
at anything who cannot, in the long run
make it pay at farming in Kansas. 1t.
cannot be expected that good-for-noth
ing fash ionable lounger can go from his
city haunts and make fortune at farm
lngduring the first year. Neither can 4 Ia.
~, good-for-nothing farmer 20 TO the
CITY and rise in a monthto the rank