The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-11
A safs Business.

A man Of industry end good, sound
Judgment, under favorable ciroum.
stances, will make himself o comforta,
BILE home and accumulate completeness
on the farm. His industry will cause
the acres to bud. and blossom, and his
Judgment will keep him out of risky
side.enterprises, and from getting head
over heels in debt, aud outside specula.
tion usually leads tho farmer into it. AS
rule, it is best to stick to one business,
With few exceptions, the man who gets
two many irons in the fro will get soma
Of the irons burned, and will Be very
lucky II he does not get some of hio fin.
gers badly scorched. So almost uuiyer.
sal Is the operation.of the rule that the
world is accustomed to wal. patiently for
the downfall of any man With two or
three'kipds of business on hand, and il
such man happens to get throughrail
right. instead ofgetting credit for being o
legitimate exception, be is turned of
with the simple exclamation, What q
lucky fellow Successful farming re.
quires all the force and ingenuity Of one
brain. Slipshod farming will conduc.
itself, but not 30 good farming. Any.
body can plant and SOW, and anybody can
gather what grows. But it is not every.
body that can do either as it ought to be
done. Farming is.a complicated science
--the grand agerac1.te of oil sciences-
and it requires hard study and close ap-
plication.
Entertaining the now pretty generally
exploded idea that anybody can farm. or
that the farm will take care of itseIf:
many aifarmer has tried to live on the
farm and devote the most, or, to be rea.
sonable.in expression, part of his time
to other callings. In ninety-nine cases
ofa hundred disaster has resulted. and
both farm and outside business. have
been smashed; and in view of what the
past has shown in this particular, the best
advice that can be given is TO stick to the
farm if you have one, or to let the farm
alone If you are determined to enter
upon or continue in some other business.
The risks in farming, as already stated,
are comparatively few. There is no dan
ger of ruin arising from competition; there
is none arising from tho treachery of bus.
iness associates. The farm, under or
binary circumstances, is sure to furnish
enough to make the family comfortable,
and extraordinary circumstances which
are of proyidential character ALWAYS.
are not very ent to exist. The farmer is
engage In the production of articles
which the public must have. It makes
no difference what else the people do
without, they must have new flour, and
while depression of the times NAV limit
the demand, it cannot wholly destroy it.
linus is the farmer engaged in business
which is always active. If other kinds
of business are .hourishing, ,..!agriculture
must be on lthe very topmost round |;
if other kinds of business are depressed.
agriculture must still be on q round q
little above any other business.
In mercantile or. purely speculative
business, there is no certainty of safety
for week, end scarcely for an hour.
Financial panics may come and swallow
up values until the merchant il ruined
and the speculator stranded competi.
tion may bankrupt one,, ten, ,ror sco.es of
merchants. But :f news should come
that farmer, who had for years been
entirely free from debt, and had been
raising good crops ALL the while had
gone into bankruptcy, it would astonish
every one, exceptthat they would account
fcT il upon the grounds of outside spec.
ulation. Farming is pretty sure bust
ness, and if it can be relieved of some OF
the unjust burdens that are pressing il
down, the farmer can afford TO be content,
- We,tern Rural.