The Red Cloud chief., 1879-06-05

hing o system. Eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight opened upon the
Printer favorably. His past ''expenses"
had been partly for every sort Of equip
ment. His outfit Of teams, tools,
wagons, etc., was nov veey complete,
and inyoiced el,741.40-though that in
Guided some investments II strawberry,
raspberry, blackberry, asparagus and
rhubarb beds, which occupied about
four acre..
This, in the main, was his Stay OUT
for the season: the aforementioned
beds. 200 sash; early crops, ten acres;
melons, s~ix:Acres; potatoes, eight acres;
sweet potatoes, ten acres; late cab
bsges, eight acres; corn, five acres;
tomatoes, two acres; celery, 5000
plants. Early vegetables were TO be
followed as far as possible by a
second planting. 1t was q splendid
spring. The hot beds used for market
purposes made % q sash. The receipts
for the week ending May 4, were
Sl20.65. 1t seemed reasonable then to
estimate his gross income for the year
at 5000. But one fatal Msy morning.
while it Wa yet dark, his team ran away
going to market; he was found lying BY
the roadside-dead.
Less than four years before, the
" Coughing Printer" on q capital OF
| $500 tried his prentice hand at garden
ing; at the time Of bis death he was
considered to be at the head Of that in
dustry in q town Of 10000 people.
Peace has its victories a. well as war;
and in q favorite branch Of her service
this man was . conqueror. In cOnsid-
GRAFTON of his remarkable success under
| the circumstances, It IL m interesting
question what would have been Mr..
Wingert's ultimate development. 1t
was his own Judgment that he career
had only begun. He held that'his busi-
ness was as amenable to the laws OF
business as any other, and to an unusu-
al extent offered facilities for large Ope-
nations.
II was his ambition 10 sometime be
able to offer to every family in the
| city, At their own doors each day, vege-
tables OF the season, perfectly fresh,
without intervention, and at such prices
as large planting and direct dealing
would justify him in making and which
would compel them TO buy. He held
that with such a market as his . gar.
dener should raise every vegetable suit-
ed to the soil and climate, especially
those of difficult production. carefully
observing q due proportion in the
amount Of each, according 20 the de.
mands Of his trade, and have something
to sell every day in the year. Though
we'll up in garden literature, 10 relied
but little on his books. Il was The
hands, he said, more than the heAd,
which needed education; and q mus
put his fingers into the prints of every
operation before he was master of it
the difference between knowing how s
thing ought to be done and how to do j
being wider than the sea.
Yet he held thst books were indis
pensable to the novice in horticulture
for they furnished him pegs to hang hi!
knowledge on. He said if q nan could
not see beauty in a garden and love j
he was out of place there. The com
mercial feature of his business seemed
to him the most important
any body can raise struck" bu'
to raise it with hired labor ant
sell it with profit is a difficult soft O
merchandising. He held that Ownins
land and working it were not necessari
ly any more akin than selling goods ant
owning stores. If he had taken tn,
home of-your-own madness and gone OF
a s'claim" with his $500, runawa,
horses would not have killed him-he't
never have been worth q team.
1t has been said repeatedly in agricul
tural addresses and i'll bucolic essay
written by we'll meaning people Of leis
ure that s'brain" is q more importan
factor in farming than ''brawn; :" bu
the world has held the statement to b'
on a par with those theological tenet!
which every body admits but nobod,
believes. Instances are multiplying
however, that seem to verify the posi-
ton, one of which is herein imperfect,
but accurately recounted. The figure
given are taken from Mr.. Wingert'
books, which were faithfully kept to tn
last. Ability and good Torture in hi!
case went hand in hand, and left a rec
ord that has rarely been beaten. /
proves, as far as it goes, that an artisan
may make q success in agriculture; bu
let it not beguile the FESTIVE mechanic
who longs for a country life into the no
ton that he has only to turn farmer il
order to succeed.-E6Uin Taylor, in III
New York Tribune.