The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-12-26
Does 1t Pay !

This is the test to apply to all enter
prises on the arm. And it we'll becomes
any one who has managed u farm for
the past three or five years, in grain,
grass or stock to seriously investigate
whether his operations have paid. La
bor is high, but in view of all the sur
roundings, no higher than good labor
out to be. But much of it is ignorant,
awkward, INDECENT and careless-de-
stroying, or by neglect iniuring, moe
than he earns. Farme have no rea-
son to complain of the p ice of labor,
but the quality is wretched. 1t is hard
to tell how so many young men come
up to mans estate so totally ignorant of
the ways of lie. Governor kirkwood
the other day said no girl should be al
lowed to marry until she could make
good bread, good cup of coffee and
broil a beef-steak correctly. But what
would he do with the thousands of
young men in all departments of life
totally ignorant of how to do any thing
correctlyP" They are crowding into our
towns. They are on our farms and
everywhere. But it is far worse on the
farm than any other place. 1t is with
young men as it is with a large part of
mankind. If they do not know any
thing, it is the gene al We dict that they
must go to ia: m ng. A few years ago
a schoolmaster editor at Prai lie City ad-
vocated higher wages for school teach
ing, for the reason that it to K two OIL
three years to prepare TO teacher,
while any green dolt is just as good aG
any as farm hand. And yet It re-
quires more natural brightness, and
twice the training, to make a good farm
hand that it does to constitute good
teache'.
But the question is: Does it pag to
fa m in the way it is mostly done at
present? Let every ia mer count up
ca efully the cost of oducing the op
of the past o. any year. What the cost
OF his corn, his oats, his potat YES, or his
wheat. Count every item of work, al
lowing a reasonable price for teams,
board of hands, seed, cost of imple-
ments, rent of ground, plowing, plant
ing, cultivation, harvesting, threshin :,
storing in bins and C s,and marketing.
Then compa this with the income. DO
not be discou aged at the result shown.
Only let it set you to studying out a bet
: ter way. How to farm without so much
help-whether more stock and less
e: ain can not solve the problem. BY
no means allow the scrutiny to tempt
you to sell the farm and move to town,
and set up green grocery or to go to
peddling apple trees. Farming can be
made to pay We know from fair trial.
1t is the surest and safest way to make
life comfortable of any industry
or device under the sun. But it
must be wisely done. Investiga-
ton must demonst ate whei her the
OUTLAW isA not more than the
income. If it is. better way must be
sought out. And it is the OBJ ect of this
article to induce every farmer to scar n
out the best way, and not go blindly
forward without knowing what he is
doing. We have passed by farms for
the past twenty eight years, where the
first sight convinced us that the owner
did not know his own business. And
to-day he is not worth as much as he
was q score of years ago. notwithstand-
ing his land is worth twenty times as
much as it was at the beginning of the
period named. The trouble with him,
and thousands like him. is that he does
not know how TO farm-nor know what
it co t. to farm, nor the value of the
products of his farm In his case he
does not know whether il pays. And
with the carelessness and the ignorance
e applies to his farm he has no right
10 expect It to pay.-LaDa Sta Regis
ter.