The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-07-28
Capital In Farming.

grief at an early day than is now tn,
case. They generally count the cost il
advance, and aim to have sufficien
capital on hand, or accessible, SO tha
necessary OUTLAWS shall be promptl,
met, and their ability guaranteed fol
tiding over a period Of dull times o.
stringency. The true man of business
does not want his customers, creditors
or acquaintances to even suspect thai
his financial resources are at all lack
ing to carry out his plans. He know.
that q reputation for prompt payment.
is all important to a standing with both
creditors and customers; and that with
out a standing the path to success will
be ten times more difficult. He may
limit his field of enterprise as much as he
Pleases, but he must be able to do wha,
he agrees to do or tries to do with
promptness and dispatch.
The great need of the average farm
er is to be- more business-iike in hi.
methods. He should know all about
profit and loss. True, he cannot Away.
demonstrate exactly the cost of a bushe
OF corn, quart of beans or the board
OF sucking pig, but he can at least
know what his aggregate expenses arc
per year, and his annual income. YET
tens of thousands do not know ever
this, because it is ''too much trouble te
keep accounts" They seem to take
no interest or pride in mastering such
facts. They lack the business quality
of mental application, and of course
their farming, while it may support
them, is of the standstill order, unen
terprising, and teaches no lesson that
incites other farmers to improve.
Then, again, other thousands embark
in the business blindly. They can work
but they have no conception that farm.
ing is much more than mere work and
routine. They start without capital, OF
at least none in hand, and under load
of debt. The tools and stock put upon
the farm are inferior, and do very pool
work. Investments that would pay
well, such as purchases of manure,
drainage of heavy soils, the clearing up
promptly of swamps or other land
which might be reclaimed, must be neg
lected or postponed. Such men cannot
be persuaded that time is money in
their business, or that they cannot af-
ford to use half worn out and inefficient
tools and implements. Their necessi-
ties for meeting interest, taxes ard 9TH
er expenses literally force them to sell
their crops often at ruinous prices to
sharpers who know or suspect the
pressure under which they live. Their
purchases must all be made at refill and
at high rates, instead of at wholesale
and at the lowest rates. Sucha man
can do little or nothing to acvance
farming or honor it; he can do n,th;ng
to aid local enterprises; he has n,thing
for books, papers. society, or intllect-
ual culture; his family is neglected,
and has no chance to grow in social
standing, and sort of dry rot gAeral-
ly pcrvades the premises.
Of course a laborious, saving man,
can advance somewhat, and may do,
some attaining to prominence. But it
is at fearful cost. The young couple
who start in farming, say at the ate of
manhood, in the attempt to pay for
hundred-acre farm with a motgage
upon it for two-thirds or three-turths
of its cost, and inditferently stcked,
have a terrible task before them. That
is, it is terrible if they have anyintel-
lectual or social tastes, any ambion to
build up a beautiful home, or I give
their children such advantages a will
make them intelligent, enterpsing,
worthy and content with their sur
roundings. II satisfied with mere
drudgery, and with no tastes for scial
privileges or books, no desire to al in
good enterprises that arouse them
thusiam of others about them, thenhey
may succeed after fashion. Butt is
a poor sort of success at best. len
and women should be something nre
in this age than mere hewers of wod
and drawers of water. The farmts
home should possess comforts in abn-
dance, even if not luxuries. His wick
should b. intelligent, and guided
some knowledge Of the laws of .natle
which affect it, and not merely by IL
laws of routine. His home SURROUND
ings should be beautiful and tasteful
because a slight expenditure and som,
care and taste will give him rural beau
ties denied to the city man, or which
will cost the latter many thousands il
the form of country seat. And to d.
all this requires some capital.
But if a man wants to be farmer
and hasn't the capital to conduct hi!
business with the energy and foresight
of a well-trained business man, what i.
he to do? This is the question tina
some will ask. Several suggestions ar,
in order. What do other people do VIII,
wish to engage in business and ar,
without the necessary means? The
generally don't do it, postpone it TO
better times, or try something else. 4
mans fancied wants and wishes are no
always the true guides to follow. l
really possessed Of the sterling qualities
which fit admirably for success in
certain calling, these will pretty Ger
tainly be exhibited in such a way il
subordinate positions as to attract ap
preciable attention and suggest ali
from friends. A man who would ris
must be patient.
Money may not pour in rapidly to tn
hired man-at least it never has yet
but money is not all the capital re
quired. The grace of patience, witt
skill, an inquiring spirit, and an earn
est desire to find better methods thai
the old ones, are all important. Their
should be (and must be for the highes
success) an ambition to excel in farm
ing. and not only to make money by it
but to do everything in a way to favor
ably contrast with practices that Obtain
because they are old and hoary. Blu
to attempt farming without any of thi
preparatory discipline, and with but
triie of money, is really a hard roa'
to travel. Besides the horrors of deb
and of constant self-denial in habits O
living. there is the modification of be
ing obliged to conduct farming opera
tions in slipshod or wasteful method
with insufficient manure, insufficient
work, improper tools and machinery
The glaring needs of the farm and q
the household in the direction of profit
comfort and taste, must be put owe
year after year, and thus life be robbie
of many of its true enjoyments. Hah
its are acquired that cling to parent
and children through after years, an
thus aid to keep down the standard q
farming.-M. Y. Sun.
Feeding Green Corn to Swine.
Green corn a. soon as it is fairly rip