The People's vindicator., 1876-06-10
Farm and Household.
Business Habits.

Business Habits.
The secret Of 4 great many failures
in every kind Of pursuit is the lack
of business habits and to no class Of
men does this fact apply with greater
force and uniformity than to farmers.
In general point Of vicw-takins
large areas of country into considera-
tiou-the cultivation Of the soil. with
the various departments included !"
it, is so poorly performed that the
only wonder is how it yields as large
n profit as it does. There are many
farmers who appear to think that all
which is necessary to success Is IT,
give orders to their hired labOrers aud
spend day after day themselves in
the cxcitements and frivulities of So
ciety. They cannot be contented ut
home or in looking after the interests
Of their business, hut are forever
found here, and there, hunting cx'
citcment or pleasure. A stranger
who is a practical man would come to
see directly that these men have new
cr acquired business habits, and that
they are wholly incompetent to man
age their own interests with wlsdom'
Now, business habits, thoroughly
fixed, arc far more important than
capital. With the former, capital
may be, and often is, acquired; while
with the latter, it is sure to 10 lost as
a natural result of inattention to bu-
sincss. The man who is not most
contented while pushing his business,
and whose mind is not constantly
employed in ,lcvising means Of ccon-
omy aud Il better adjustment of all
his business relations is wholly un-
fitted to control capital Of any kind
p!otitably. The hard-workcr alone is
successful among men. The farmer
who brings all his intellectual powers
to bear steadily upon his occupation,
who is Obscrvant Of facts, who seeks
the most certain knowledge pertain
ing to each interest in his charge, who
is often engaged in experimenting 80
as to discover the best methods of
tillage and the best conditions for the
Development Of animals, and who
withal is careful Of what nature gives
him as the reward Of his painstaking
labor, and who has reduced every
thing in his family and upon his farm
to order and to aid his calling, Is ho
who always succeeds and finds in his
success the means of the purest hap
piness that man can enjoy on THE
} earth.
Habit is at last tho perfection of
, education. There arc thousands of
, persons who know nothing Of the
: rules of grammar, who nevertheless
D speak correctly from habit. Constant
3 application of t|;e mind and hand i'm
$ part superiority. Habit also brings
# coutentment, which is the chief ele'
$ ment Of happiness. Thoroughly
r. trained business men are most happy
when engaged in the discharge Of
# their daily work. 1t is seldom that
4 such men seek relaxation from theft
+. employments, and never, except in Ill
: health, for any length Of time. But
o this is not true of \ very large mum
q her If farmers-tlIe class we have
= specially in view. They are never
Y copteuted iu their business, but make
;e excuses to gel away from it. Their
~ families arc apt also to partako O
70 the same spirit, and these idle habit'
r. are sources Of constant disasters Al
II we'll as much misery. 1t is a genera
20 truth that mems success is in proper
NJ ton to their close attention to theI
,e interests aud strict economy. W.
mentioned that the successful farme
must bo constantly seeking for knowI
o- edge, yet there are hundreds an
r.. thousands offarmers who do not eve
~ take a newspaper, or if they do it
10 of a character that can give them n
90 information in their calling. In thl
+" age the farmer who ignores tho va:
le amount of agricultural kn"w!cds
cd with which the press is teeming ca
"A not reach the success which those d
nd who keep themselves posted in agr
on culture. knowledge is power
Iis farming as we'll as in any thing els
or because agriculture is strictly
~ science, and hence it intimately col
-" m Germs the farmer to know as we'll
Nd to do. Every man should SEEK
.cI ennoble his calling, as we'll rs
nm make money. These results eau
CO. reached only through constant appl
tcI cation and steady perseverance.
;ch is much more difficult to take care
as money than it is to make it, hen
the necessity Of the utmost care
Keeping the expenses Of the farm al
tho the family to the lowest mlnlm''
a,' ~. that is consistent with good tiIla
w. "". and comfortable living, and adopt'
''"n % eyery new method Of farm n'A'Iae
"": ."t. ment and culture, which cxperien
y" "' proyes to be Of superior utility
a., There is need Of q more intelligt
wv ~ tillase and general management
,,,. y. farm business than are brought tC
aa '""' by the masses who follow this pnrs'
~, ~, And even tho most advanced has 81
mucI, to learn.
ad.
';h ~ According to experiments made
..|,,' -, NJ. Tisseran,l, in France, cream II
aoi soi most rapidly rs the temperature
,oa' ,o,, proacl,cs to thirty.two degrees,
." .;". volume Of cream obtained is great
',"' a;". the yield of butter is superior ;
" ,'n"o the quality of cheese and butter
hich pat,':u'a''s ""s. .,';r.r % n;"o l.cr.