The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-27
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business man, as he has great va
riety of articles both to buy and sell.
He should have something ready to
do at all odd moments, and ne should |
so plan his work as to keep ahead
of it, instead of letting his work
drive him.
Physically, a farmer has the OPP
portunity of enjoying the best health
and the longest life of any man in
the world. Having a varied pursuit,
which during fine weather enables
him to work out under the open sky
amid the genial influences of nature;
his physical form cannot help but
be fully developed if he gives him.
self proper care. Some men think
ing to save few cents, neglect to
provide themselves with proper
clothing, and then complain that
their occupation exposes them to the
inclemencies of the weather. We
have found that with an outlay of
five dollars we could so protect our
selves against any rain or dampness
that our health could not possibly
suffer, an1during the cold of win
ter every ban owes it to himself to
dress wa ly. Some farmers have
the mistaS 70 idea that if they do all
the labor themselves they are good
managers and are saving money,
while the truth is, they could pro-
cure for from fifty to seventy five
cents a day competent labor that
would do fully as much as they could,
while the farmer himself would have
a chance to attend to the different
details about his place that need
attention and which are losing him
money by being neglected while he
is putting in his time for fifteen dol
lars a month. We do not mean to
say that farmer should not work,
for there are many things that he
can do, and do many times better
than be can hire them done. Many
men by overworking themselves
while in the prime of life so disable
themselves that by the time they
reach the age of forty five or fifty
they are incapable of enjoying them
selves or doing a full days work,
when in fact at this age a man
should be at his best; his brain is
more active and his Judgment sound
er. A man is just as foolish to use
himself up the first years of his life
as one would be if he had a hun
dred miles to go and should exhaust
his team in the first twenty. Re
member, in all probability you are
destined to have long life. Save
yourself and wife for your later
years not by withdrawal from all
work, but by judicious and care
full exercise of your present ability
Financially, farming can be made
to pay as handsome an income as
any mercantile business with the
same amount of capital invested
One should keep in mind that.it re-
quires capital to make money. A
mans capital should not be wholly
invested in his land. We think one
should confine himself to what land
he can work to profit A man had
much better have 81 900 invested
in his land ana S., 900 in live stock
than S. 500 in his farm and $500 in
stock. We have seen farmers build
a house costing from s., 900 to $4,000
while they did not actually have
$500 worth of stock on their place.
We are strongly inclined to the
opinion that farming to be made to
pay must be done through stock
raising. All men cannot do this
in the same channel. Some men
have a love for cattle, others for
sheep, while still others are born
with genius for making good pork.
But whatever branch a man makes
his specially, let him do it we'll and
give it his best attention, and he will
be bound to succeed Stock rails
ing introduces world of detail that
must be carefully attended to in
every particular; for by neglect a
man will often lose ground that
will take him months to make up.
We recently saw an account of
man buying last fall 600 sheep for
$3.50 per head. He Fed them liber-
ally on corn and oil cake during the
winter, keeping an accurate account
of the feed, which he found was
$50 per head. He then sold last
spring, 400 of these same sheep for
So per head He estimated that the
manure from these sheep alone
more than repaid him for all his feed;
and it can readily be seen that be-
sides getting back 500 more than
the original outlay he had 200 valu-
able sheep left. We have known
farmers to get, repeatedly, for their
corn from Sixty cents to dollar per
bushel whsn fed to stock at home,
besides ha1ing the valuable manure
with which to enrich their farms,
and this too without single day
spent in hauling corn from three to
five miles to market If farmers
would take pains and raise an i'm
proved class of young stock from
thoroughbred sire they would grow
class of cattle, sheep or hogs that
would pay large per cent more
for the feed given to them than
young stock that can be bought
We notice large shipments of good
blooded calves from Ohio and ada
cent states to the Chicago markets
which the Western breeders are
buying to raise These calves cost
the purchaser from $I3 SO to $IS per