The Osceola times., 1878-11-16

larger salary than nlnety-nine out of n
hundred OF them are willing to admit.
They underestimate their own profits.
and over-estimate the profits Of men
livingon salary.
There Is a 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 live by anything else. Many OF
this class hardly deserve to be classed AZ
farmer. Tney lower the standing of
farming - business. l believe there is
no business by which a man can live 70
we'll 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; 40
is any business. The farmers profits
are concealed in the rise of land-in i'm
provements by ditching, clearing, new
building, mere land. more tools, or bet
ter stock. Most farmers have no idea
how much 1t costs them to live. They
forget to figure In the pork, poultry,
mutton, butter, -four, vegetables, etc,
etc. The salary man lives entirely by
his individual efforts. In estimating
salary, we must do 20 by looking at the
privileges enjoyed, the hard work of
brain and muscles, AMI the gain pro.
perty or improvements.
l am personally acquainted with two
brothers in Michigan, who started out
on an equality ab)ut twenty years ago.
One OF them, alter a good education,
went to farming, the other to teaching.
They had only few hundred dollars to
start with. The one who followed teach.
ing for the last six years. has received
annually from two thou sand 10 two thou
sand seven hundred dollars. One third
OF this amount would be called q large
salary BY nine tenths of our farm. rs,
who can save az much each year as does
the teacher referred to. Tha 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 a small cheese factory. He is out
ofdebt He has lately bought fifty acres
more at land worth $1,000, and from
previous experience, he is certain he can
save $500 year above all expenses, IN
apply as payment on his recent purchase
He Is easily keeping up with the teacher
In accnmulating wealth. He works no
harder. The natural tact of the two
men for work aud business was not much
different while they worked together on
tho old homestead. The farmer in aues-
tion is not an old fogy in any sense OF the
q Ia o1l kn l.. 4
new and better Implements, but he is
very cautious about buying any OF them
until he has seen them tried, a"d knows
that he can make good use of them. H
does not make costly experiments, but
ne j. every year trying some new vegs
tables, or grains or grasses. He is i'm.
proving his stock BY some purchases, and
by natural selection" He waists no
money in rushing from one department
OF farming to another. He keeps cows,
raises some hogs, a little wheat, some
corn, hay and grass, some fruit and poul-
try. In no sense of the word can he be
said to have made money by buying low
and selling high. He is not trader.
He has no tact in making his money by
good bargains. What be has earned has
come by legitimate farming. Some
would call him little conservative. He
is very cautious, saving, industriou', but
he dresses well and lives well.-rProf.
Beal in Rural New Yorker.
SPEEP ON Poor LAND.-A cerrespon.
dent of the American Farmer writes on
the subject Of the cspscity of sheep to
improve soils or renovate wornout land.
he says: From many years experi.