The Dawson journal., 1883-08-02
What Shall our Young Men do i?
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
A friend came into the Constitution
office few days ago and said: ~My son
has just finished college; l want to get him
into business, and 1 want you to help me.
l have plenty of land, but farming don't
pay, and my son prefers some other bust
ness. The professions are over crowded,
and | think if he can get situation in
some business house he will do better He
is steady boy, willIngto work and has no
bad habits. I have no money to set him
up in business on his own account, and be-
sides prefer to let him learn something
about it before risk any money, as 80
many fail in business"
There is no doubt that half the farmers
in this state who have sons justing starting
in life are on the same mission, and it is a
great mistake. Any man that has five
hundred acrts of land in Georgia to give
his son is able to leave him in better fix
for living if there is anything in the boy,
than if he had ten thousand dollars in bank,
railroad stock or money, to give him.
Not one man in twenty five succeed in a
profession not one in twenty succeed as a
merchant or trader. No man who sticks
to his business and attends to it fails at
farming when he has the land to begin
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energetic, well educated young man than
to take five hundred acres of Georgia land
and make it do it's best. Let him start with
the determination to succeed; let him
continue from day to day, from week tc
week, and month to month, to add i'm
provements to his land; keep out of debt
and all he makes more than a support lei
him add to this land in permanent i'm
provements. He will find in ten or fifteer
years, as he begins to gather family
around him. that his land has increased il
value-that he is interested in his home
! in his farm, in his stock-that his children
are healthy and independent and happy; il
Short that he is successful citizen, who
has mad himself comfortable and added
immensely to the prosperity of his state
The hope of our state is that the large
trainers will divide up their plantations
among their children (not forgetting {
good education, for that is inst as impor
| tant to farmer as to a professional man,
that their children will keep up with thu
progress of the age in improving thei
plaCes-stick with great fidelity to one fact
and that is to make everything they can TO
home use, and buy only such things as are
absolutely necessary and which they canno
make themselves.
There is no greater fallacy than that EN-
bodied in the idea that farming doesn'
pay. Fifty years ago it took one bushel o
corn to buy pound of nails, now it will
buy twenty pounds. Fifty years ago ittool
thirty dozen eggs to buy bushel Of salt
now one dozen eggs will buy a bushel o
salt. In 1916 it required sixty-four bush
els Of barley to buy one yard of broad
cloth, now five bushels is large price t.
pay for it, with all the protection of on
present tariff. Then it took bushel o
wheat to buy yard of calico, now yor
can buy fifty yards. Then it took tn
price of cow to buy pair of woolel
blankets, now you can get twenty pair
superior in every way, for the price of
good COW. The purchasing power of tn
products of our soil has increased enor
mously and this increase is in every direc
ton. 1t demonstrates beyond doubt tina
there is money in farming properly.
man must exercise judgement. be indus
trious and economical to succeed, but if h
cannot do this, he will fail at anything.
1t is the duty of every landowner il
this state to instill into his children tn
necessity of looking alone 81 his land for
living. 1t is the most reliable; panics ma.
come but they will not effect the industri
GUS farmer who is out of debt with
good house to live in. There is no happie
man in our state to-day than an industri
Gus, economical, contented educated far
mer. The Great Creators idea of happi
ness for man was the Garden of Eden
And all the evils that followed are the re
suit of desire to improve on what Go
then made perfect, and from that day t
this mans happiest days were spent a
home on a farm that he had beautified wit
his own labor, eating his own bread unde
his own vine and fig tree.
Let our young men who are looking for
situation after going through college max
up their minds to take the land their ia
Their is willing to give. Let him resolve t
make living on it, and to add the surplu
each year to its improvement. Diversif
the crops in it, select chat which pays tn
best, raise good stock, fruits, etc, AM
every year make the land you cultivat
better than it was before, and we are will
ing to risk your condemnation it you fail
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