The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-07-25
What Salary Does a Farmer Receive

He receives the equivalent OF
larger salary than ninety-nIne out OF
8 hundred OF them are willing 10 adj
NIT. They underestimate the profits
Of men living on a sala-y.
There is q great difference among
those who live by farming. A great
many work the soil because they do moi
know what else 70 do, or because they
cannot live by any thing else. Many
OF this class hardly deserve TO be call
ed farmers. They lower the standing
OF farming as businesss. / believe
there is no business by which q man
can live so we'll with so much neg
lect, as in agriculture. Still nothing
better Tepays good care and
ability. 1t Is rather slow TO yield
brilliant returns at the outset SO II
any business, The farmers profits
are concealed In the rise of land-in
improvements by ditching, clearing
new buildings, more land, moro tools
or better stock. Most farmers have nc
idea how much Is costs them to live,
They forget to figure in the pork,
poultry, mutton, butter, flour, veget'
ables, etc. The salary man lives en-
| tirely 10y his individual efforts. In
estimating q salary, we must do so by
looking at the privileges enjoyed, the
| the hard work of brain and muscles
and the gain In property or improve
ments.
| 1 am personally acquainted with
two brothers In Michigan, who start
ed out on an equality about twenty
years ago. One OF them, after a good
education, went to farming, the Othel
to teaching. They had only a few
hundred dollars apiece to start with
The one who followed teaching fol
| the last six years, has received an
nuslly from two thousand to two
| thousand seven hundred dollars
One-thiTd Of this amount would b'
called large salary by nine-tenths o
our farmers, who can save as muef
each year as does the teacher referred
/ to. The farmer, OF the two brOther
under consideration, owns and works
a small place Of seventy or eighty
acres, which he Is steadily improving
He has good buildings. He owns
small cheese factory. He is out o.
debt. He has lately bought so acre
more Of land worth $1,000, and from
previous experience, he is certain hI
can save $500 year above all ex
penses, TO apply as payment on hi
recent purchase. He Is easily keep
ing up with the teacher in acoumu
lating wealth. He works no harder
| The natural tact OF the two men 70
work and business WAS not much dli
| ferent, while they worked together OIL
the old homestead. The farmer in
| question Is not an old fOgy in an.
sense of the word. He Is all the tim
looking for new and better imple
ments, but he is very cautious abOu
buying any of them until he has seel
them tried and knows that he cal
make good use OF them. be does no
make costly experiments, but he !
every year trying some new Vegets
bles or grains or grasses. He IS I'm
proving his stock by sOme purchases
and by natural selection" II
wastes no money in rushing from on
department of farming TO another
He keeps cows, raises some hogs,
little wheat, some corn, hay and graS
some fruit and poultry. In no sens
OF the word can he be said to hRV
made money by buying low and sci
Ing high, He is not trader. II
has no tact In making his money b
good bargains. What he has earne
has come by legitimate farming
Some would call him little conser'
ative. He Is very cautious, ssvinI
Industrious, hut he dresses well al
lives well.-IrCf. BcUl ~ RurdJ Ne
Yorker.