The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-28
Plenty Of Room at the Ton.

The story is told that q young man
who desired to enter a law Office, but
hesitated from a fear that the profession
was already ovcr-crowded. once went to
Daniel Webster for advice on the sub.
ject, and the great barrister and dipIo-
mat kindly assured the young aspirant
for legal honors, that 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 a large unoccup;ed
field in the higher circles. which would
insure to those who had the ability and
the genius TO reach those circles, q
highly remunerative return for their
labors. No person or ordinary intelli-
gcnce 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 50 than in agricultural affairs. In
all the beaten paths of agriculture eacli
individual is n 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 j~Ostling 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,
atlA,ynov 4hA sSHr1lo o,A Iao~, fntl
swing in goring. scratching and hug
ging each other. the farmer being the
legitimate prey Of the entire mensgerie,
while appearances usually indicate that
they are simply tantalizing each other.
An occasional agriculturist, with more
shire wdness than most of his fellows,
takes in the situation, and with q clear
comprehension that this scramble to
immensely swell the cereal productions
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 ac-
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 all-buying the grains
sith 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 W rearing will command. In
all this time the lands Of the grain pro-
Queer are gradually, but surely dete-
rioratin2. 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
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 years
of partial failure, il the farmers of the
fertile West very soon realize fully re-
muneratiye prices for the two great
staple products of corr and oats, of
50 many million bushels are an
produced. very much less of the
products must be thrown on the general
markets; and instead thew must to a
much greater extent be utilized on the
farm in making beef. pork aud mutton.
and in rearing the agile and plucky
roadster which, with the natural in
of wealth in our midst, is every
wear becoming in greater demand.
Neither should be omitted the rearing
of the heavy draft horse, for the special
Use to which he is SO well adapted, as
he is Of rs great necessity as any do
nestle animal in tie land. And we
would not be fOrgetful either of that
slandered and much-abused
animal, the patient mule, whose vicious
habits are far more frequently the result
Of his being made to feel than man in his
common foe, than to any inherent dis
on his part to be mean Just for
amusement. Perhaps it may not be the
most popular thing for an editor to
the cause of the mule and
make this despised plebeian the
of his confidence, but from per-
sOnal experience we do not hesitate to
proclaim that no domestic animal will
more promptly respond to gentle treat
nent. nor exhibit . higher appreciation
IF kindly acts. than will he, nor one who
greater delight IL exhibiting the {
Inderside of the hoof to them who give ;
him only abuse when he does not de- |
it.-Burlington HaUkeye.