New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-03-05
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discussion equivalent to the canvass
ing; in q commercial assemblage Of
the relative proftab leness Of asmall or
large store; or, among manufacturers,
Of the comparative advantages Of Q fac
tory on large or small scale. There
can be no doubt that men have accu.
INFLATED conside rable wealth from q
small commercial business, or by 3
manufacturing industry conducted on
. moderate scale-and also by the till.
age Of small areas Of land. Industry
and economy, conf Joined with business
capacity and q good acquaintance with
the work in hand, will in time usually
secure q competency in any avocation.
By slowly laying dollar to dollar, with
shrewd investment of profits, man
can make himself Independent, and
even rich,. doing but very moderate
business all the time.
For the majority Of mankind this is
the safest, and indeed the only practi-
cable method. Out Of a thousand men
but very few have the natural capaci-
ty, or the acquired ability, to conduct
any business. successfully on q large
scale. Napoleon declared that there
were only two men in Europe who
could handle an army of 1OO, 1000 men.
A similar rule applies to every branch
of human endeavor. And one of the
chief elements of success is to know
one's-self sufficiently we'll not to under
take more than can be successfully car
ried out. This applies as well to farm
ing as to every other business.
But farming has never yet been a
legitimate business in America. Land
has been too abundant for that, as well
as too rich with the accumulated fer
tility of ages. So far. we may say that
there has been but little real farming
done on this whole continent. When
it comes to true farming and it is now
beginning to come to that in the older
States it will be necessary That q man
calling himself a farmer should know
something about his business, and be,
to that extent, business man.
As business man his capacity for
business will regulate the amount of
business he will be competent to do.
That, and the amount of capital he can
control, will settle his status, whether
rs a large or small farmer. And as
farming is more and more conducted
on business principles, the business OF
farming will divide itself into different
classes. 1t will then become like other
businesses, and as in trade there is q
place for the large merchant and the
small tradesman, so in farming there
will be large and small farms, and all
profitable in proportion to the capital
and labor intelligently expended upon
them for the production of salable
crops.
When agricultural business is thus
organized, it will be found, in many
cases, that the era of land under tillage
will not SO much determine the profits
as the amount of labor, capital and
skill laid out in order to force the soil
to its highest productive capacity.
This, united with knowledge of the
kinds of crops that are most suited to
the market, an ability to forecast prob
able demand and prices, and shrewd-
ness in taking advantage of sudden
turns of the market, will be the prime
factors of success or failure.
Near large cities, or in places where
prompt and ready transportation to
large markets is obtainable, it may
happen that large force of men can
be profitably employed on few acres,
the sales of products running up to
tens of thousands of dollars annually.
In this way large business can be
done on small farm. It is now so
done in many instances, and fortunes
arc acquired by skillful men from the
tillage of five and ten-acre farms. As
competition becomes closer and closer,
only very skillful men, with large
cash capital, can run even such little''
farms successfully. But as yet there
are many opportunities for intelligent
young men of small means to "grow
up'' into such a business-more oppor-
tunities, we should say, than there are
men able and willing to take advantage
of them.
But beside these s. small farms,n run
at high pressure for the production
of fine perishable fruits and choice
vegetables, flowers, trees, plants, etc.,
there must also be farms of greater
area for the production of breadstufs,
meat, milk and undergraduates, wool,
cotton, etc. Here, also. as the pres
sure of competition increases, and the
money capital of the Nation tends more
to flow out into the country seeking in
vestment there and satisfied with safe
and moderate returns, the kind of
earth-robbery known as scrub-farm-
ing" will cease by sufocation and star
walton. 1t will not take q trained
business man long to find out what it
seems impossible to teach the 'sscrub-
farmer,'' that there is no S business
and no profit in average crops of ten
and twelve bushels of wheat, thirty
bushels of corn, eighty bushels Of po-
tatoes and other like returns per acre.
Similarly, the business farmer is not
going to see any profit in cows so bad
~ bred or SO poorly fed. housed and
managed as to yield but 125 pounds of
butter or $50 pounds of cheese in q
season. Such a man is not going to
rest minute while ten or fifteen dol
lars per head on his neat stock and
horses are wasted every year by the
bad management of the manure. He
is not going to lose the legitimate
earnings of industry for want Of prop
er implements, or the proper care OF
them, or by unskillful work in prepar-
ing land for crop, or by poor seed,
or by want Of proper knowledge in
the choice and application of manures.
When farming becomes q business,
with business men engaged in it, and a
money capital proportionate to its re-
quirements, we are going to see good
farming become general. Then the
ablest man, both in brains and money,
will do the largest business in farming,
as he now does in trade and manufact-
ures. Ratral NesU Yorker.
Making the Farm Pay.
The year 1873 blessed the farmers
of the West, as . rule, with prolific
crops. The granaries are full, and the
"docks upon q thousand hills and
countless prairies have not suffered for
want Of feed, And yet all this abund.
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