The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-15

WHAT SALARY DOES A FARMER Re
CEIvE.-He receives the equivalent of a
larger salary than ninety-nine out OF a
hundred of them are willing to admit.
They underestimate their own prof IS,
aud oyer-estimate the profits Of men
living0n salary.
There is great difference among
those who live by farming. a great
many work the soil because they do not
know what else to do, or because they
cannot i've by anything else. Many Of
this class hardly deserve to be classed az
farmers They lower the standing OF
farming as q business. / believe there Is
no business by which a man can live so
well with 50 much neglect, as in agricul-
ture. Still nothing better repays good
care and ability. 1t is rather slow to
yield brilliant returns at the outset; so
Is any business The farmers profits
are concealed in the rise of land-in i'm
provements by ditching, clearing, new
building, more land, more tools, or bet
ter stock. Most farmers have no idea
how much it costs them to live. They
forget to figure in the pork, poultry,
mutton, butter, flour, vegetables, etc,
etc. The salary man lives entirely by
his Individual efforts. In estimating q
salary, we must do so by looking at the
privileges enjoyed, the hard work oil
brain and muscles, and the gain pro-
perty or improvements.
am personally acquainted with two
brothers in Michigan, who started out
on an equality about twenty years ago.
One of them, after q good education,
went to farming, the other to teaching.
They had only a few hundred dollars to
start with. The one who followed teach.
ing for the last six years, has received
snnually from two thousand to two thou
fand seven hundred dollars. One third
of this amount would be called a large
salary by nine-tenths of our farmt rs,
who can save as much each year as does
the teacher referred to. The farmer of
the two brothers under consideration,
owns and works small place of seventy
or.eighty acres, which he is steadily i'm
proving. He has good buildings. He
owns small cheese factory. He is out
OF debt He has lately bought fifty acres
more of land worth $4,000, and from
previous experience, he is certain he can
save $500 year above all expenses, to
apply as payment on his recent purchase.
lie is easily keeping up with the teacher
In accommodating wealth. He works no
men for work and business was notmuch
different while they worked together on
the old homestead. The farmer in cues
tion is not an old fogy in any sense OF the
word. He is all the time looking for
new and better implements, but ne is
very cautious about buying any of them
until he has seen them tried, ard knows
that he can make good use of them. He
Toes not make costly experiments, but
he Is every year trying some new yege-
tables, or grains or grasses. He is I'M
rowing his stock by some purchases, and
~ natural selection" He waists no
lAoney in rushing from one department
1T farming to another. He keeps COWS,
raises some hogs, little wheat, some
corn, hay and grass, some fruit and poul-
Try. In no sense of the word can he be
taid to have made money by buying low
snd selling high. He is not a trader.
lie has no tact in making his money by
.:ood bargains. What he has earned has
ZONE by legitimate farming. Some
'yould..call him little conservative. He
8 very cautious, saving, industrious, but
.se dresses well and lives WE'LL Prof
Besl In Rural New Yorker.
SPEEP ON Poor LAND.-A cerrespon-
dent of the American Farmer writes on
the subject of the capacity of sheep to
improve soils or renovate wornout land.
He says: From many years expert
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