The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-03
Money-Malxing Men and Women.
IRural New Yorker.1

Merchants and manufacturers who have
made money and become wealthy have done
SO by having something good TO sell and by
continuing to sell such articles as will give
satisfaction Farmers can make money by
adopting the same rule of always having
something good to sell and by selling such
things as will please the purchaser. The
same necessity exists that farmer should
understand his business as that q merchant
should understand his. and there is very
little chance for farmer to make money
who has 10 employ others to buy and sell
for him and who has, all the time, to be
asking advice OF neighbors. How would it
look for q manufacturer to be obliged to
find out through others what to make, or for
a merchant to GEEK counsel of other mer-
chants.
A genuinely clever, business.like mer-
chant ascertains what suits his customers,
and procures those styles of goods; and so il
is with a money making farmer-he studies
the state of the market and finds what kind
of animals sells for the most money, when
everything has been reckoned up aud the
cost of feed and attendance has been de-
Quoted; and as some kinds of farming stock
require but little attendance, and yet sell
at high figure. that is the sort any shrewd,
wide-awake farmer will breed. Now. mer-
chant or storekeeper should always deal in
such goods as will not be left on his hands
as SO much dead stock. There are, how
ever, some who every year have such
a quantity unsold that at last things
have to be marked down to such a low hg-
ure that the loss incurred on them is serious;
and il readers of this will mentally cast their
eyes around, they win readily see men who,
in agriculture, are making the same mistake,
for they have on their farms every year some
kind of stock which can not be sold at price
high enough to pay for the cost of producing
it. Like the store keeper who has gained by
a portion of his stock and lost all the profits
on account of his unstable wares, SO these
farmers, by keeping on hand inferior AMI
mails, which have to be sold at a loss lose
far more than was gained by the best sales.
Good judgment Is lacking in such cases,
not only in buying and keeping second and
third-rate stock, but in the management OF
it. Nothing can be more absurd than for q
man to buy up or breed low-priced set OF
animals, and think because they are in his
hands they will be worth more than in an
other mans. 1t is perfectly ridiculous for
any man to suppose his name alone will be
sufficient to enhance the worth of what he
has to sell for his name or any ones, is of
no use till he has distinguished himself bv
proving his judgment in possessing choice
animals
In all cases where q man or woman makes
money, uniformly good system is adhered
and never will be, by any one who is all the
while changing his stock, and having first
one and then another man In charge of DIFF
ferent parts of his business Agriculture
requires system, and it will not do to be hot
one day and cold another about anything.
To use q common, homely expression, iarm-
ing can not succeed when there Is any fool
ing" about it. There must be good system
decided on, and then 'istuck to-" under all
common circumstances, to secure success in
farming as well as in all other kinds of
business.