The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-15
Plenty of Room at the Top.

The story Is told that young man
who desired to enter q law Office, but
hesitated from a fear that the profession
was already over-crowded, once went to
Daniel Webster. for advice on the SUBJ
ject, and the great barrister and diplo-
mat kindly assured the young aspirant
for legal honors, that as There is plenty
OF room at the top of the profession"
for all the talent that can be brought to
the front; that while the ordinary walks
of the profession were fully, il not over
supplied, there was large unoccupied
field in the higher circles, which would
insure to those who had the ability and
the genius to reach those circles; a
highly remunerative return for their
labors. No person or ordinary intelli-
gsnce will fail to comprehend the force
of this logic, nor hold a mental debate
as to its truthfulness.
This application to the legal profession
is equally applicable to most business
vocations of life, and in none of them
more SO than in agricultural affairs. In
all the beaten paths of agriculture each
individual is close imitator of nearly
every other, and all together are pur-
suing the business in the direct line in
which the greatest competition exists,
and thus each is constantly crowding
and jostling the other in the scramble.
Comparatively. but few farmers at
tempt anything outside the common
staple productions of our latitude, and
the constant endeavor is to swell these
to such proportions as to keep the gen.
| eral market in a constant state of siege,
| allowing the "bulls and bears full
swing in goring. scratching and hug
ging each other, the farmer being the
legitimate prey of the entire menagerie,
while appearances usually indicate that
they are simply tantalizing each other.
An occasional agriculturist, with more
shrewdness than most of his fellows,
takes in the situation, and with a clear
comprehension that this scramble to
to be thrown ON the market in the raw
state, has but one tendency, and that to
keep prices where only the strictest
economy and the most laborious habits,
supplemented with the least possible
expense, can produce them without ao-
tual loss; and instead of swelling the
number of those thus engaged, steps
outside and devotes his energies to the
breeding of fine stock-sheep, swine or
cattle, any or 1ll-buying the grains
with which to rear his stock from those
of his near neighbors who persist in
following the old beaten paths because
they require the least thought, and SELL
ing breeding stock back to them at
double or treble the price which stock
of their own rearing will command. In
all this time the lands of the grain pro-
ducer are gradually, but surely dete-
riorating. from the fertilizing element,
, which they so sorely need being with
held from them, while those of the
stock grower are waxing fat from the
abundance of nutriment annually re.
turned.
We do not believe that anything in
the least degree sensational is contain.
ed in the foregoing lines, but that, In
stead, they are facts which are amply
confirmed by everyday observations,
And we will add that, except in year,
of partial failure, if the farmers of the
fertile West very soon realize fully re
munerative prices for the two greaf
staple products of corn and oats, o.
which SO many million bushels are an
nually produced, very much less of the
products must be thrown on the genera
markets; and instead they must to 8
much greater extent be utilized on the
! farm in making beef, pork aud mutton
and in rearing the agile and pluckJ
roadster which, with the natural in
crease of wealth in our midst, is every
|
: Neither should be omitted the rearing
of the heavy draft horse, for the specia
use to which he is so well adapted, a.
he is OF as great necessity as any do
mestic animal in the land. And W,
would not be forgetful either of tina
: greatly slandered and much-abuset
animal, the patient mule, whose viciou
habits are far more frequently the resul
of his being made to feel than man in hi
common foe, than to any inherent dis
position on his part to be mean just TO
, amusement Perhaps it may not be tn
most popular thing for an editor t.
espouse the cause of the mule ant
, make this despised plebeian tn
subject of his confidence, but from per
|, sonal experience we do not hesitate T.
proclaim that no domestic animal vii
!, more promptly respond to gentle treat
ment, nor exhibit higher appreciation
of kindly acts. than will he. nor one VIII
takes greater delight in exhibiting tn
underside of the hoof to them who Civ
him only abuse when he does not de
serve it.-Burlington Hasokeye.