New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-12

main instead or sinking TO the peasant level.
They set out upon the race of life at swifter
gait and in order to hold the pace they must Use
brain as well as muscle, and brain work is wear
ing work. The solid comfort Of the good Old
days was really stOlid cOmfOrt-the sluggish
satisfaction of an animal with his stomach full.
The farmer nowadays who is content with this
drowsy existence will inevitably be left, for his
children will demand and receive what other
children have and if the farm is managed on
the sloveny method employed by our grand
fathers-that is, if it is allowed to run itself-it
will not supply the necessities of modern life.
In every community there can be found
farmers who do more than subsist On the pro-
ducts of their acres. They prosper in business
because they conduct their farms on business
principles. With the necessity of getting a
more productive increase from the soil comes
the necessity of more study and more knowl-
edge. The time has come when the close cal
culatiDg of the manufacturer must be applied
to agricultural practice. In the factory profits
are made by saving the small percentages OF
waste, hy adopting labor-saving cOntriyances,
by watching the markets, by making as much
finished product and of as good a quality as
possible with a given amount OF raw material
procured at the lowest possible outlay. The
manufacturer who fails to keep abreast Of
every improvement in method and skill Is sure
to fail. and the time has come when the same
fate awaits the farmer. If he manufactures
butter, he must run his cows, which are HIS
machinery, with the same watchful and lntelli-
gent care which is exercised by his neghbOr
who conducts sugar refinery or II cotton mill.
He must see that his cows have perfectly bal
anced ration, with the properly prOportioned
amounts of protein, starch ana fat. He must
get his ratons at the cheapest possible rate,
and, following the example of other manufac-
turers who sell a finished product and buy a
waste product, he will sell his grain and buy
cottonseed meal, brewers, grains, bran and
other wastes of manufacture to make his fin
ishcd butter product. He will not strive to
make more butter than his neighbOr unless he
can prove that the extra pound can be prohtably
made He will make special study OF the sub
iects Immediately connected with the particular
branch of agriculture which he practises, and
he will supplement his own experience by the
teachings of recognized authorities, and he
will make use of every assistance which can be
rendered by such accurate experiments as are
conducted and recorded at our best Agricultu-
raj Experiment Stations. In other words, he
will not be content to remain a mere laborer,
but he will assume his true position as the adj
miniStrative head of n complicated but lntelll
rentlv constructed and well -Ordered system.
Farming of this kind will pay, to-day and in
the future 1t will pay not only in the narrow
pecuniary sense but it will grow crop of
better men, The Coming Farmer who survives
the fierce struggle of close competition Will
develop out of the necessities of his surround
ings into IA broader minded man than his prede-
cessor. A good deal of pleasant tatteGy has
been written about the ennobling influence OF
agriculture. No employment is ennoblinS
which does not require brains, and it is not IA
misfortune that from this time forward the
farmer who succeeds must study and think and
have "A trained mind in a sound body