Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-08-18
What Will Our Young Men Do?
Atlanta Constitution.

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Atlanta Constitution.
A friend came into the Constitution
Office a few days ago and said: my
son has just finished college; want to
get him into business, and / want you
to help me. | have plenty of land,
but farming don't pay, and my son
prefers some other business. The pro-
fessions are overcrowded, and | think
if he can get Il situation in some bus,
mess he will do better. He is Il steady
boy, willing to work, and has no bad
habits. have no money to set him
up in business, Oh his own account,
and, besides, prefer to let him learn
something about it before | risk any
money, as so many fail in business"
There is no doubt that half the farm
ers in this state who have sons just
starting in life make the same mistake.
Any man that has 500 acres of land
in Georgia to give his son is able to
leave him in Il better fix for living
than if he had $4,000 in bank stock,
railroad stock or money to give him.
No one man in twenty-five succeeds
in profession; not one in twenty sue
coed as merchant or trader. No
man who attends to his business and
sticks to it fails at farming when he
has the land to begin with. We know
40 better mission for an energetic, well
educated young man than to take 500
acres Of land and make it do its best.
Let him start out with the determine
ton to succeed let him work and see
that every one around him works; let
him continue from day to day, from
month to month, to add Improvements
to his land, keep out of debt, and all
he makes more than a support let him
add to this land in permanent improve.
ments. He will find in ten or fifteen
years, as he begins to gather a family
around him, that his land has increased
in value-that he is interested in hi;
home, in his farm, in his stock-that
his children are healthy and indepen
dent and happy; in short, that he il
successful citizen, who has made him
self comfortable and added immensely
to the prosperity of his state. Thu
hope Of our state is that the large farm
ers will divide up their plantation
among their children (not forgetting
good education, for that is just as I'm
portant for farmer as for professional
man. that their children will keep u
with the progress of the age in improy
ing their sticking with groa
fidelity to one fact, and that it is max
everything they can for home use, an
buy only such things as are absoluteI
necessary, and which they cannc
make themselves.
There is no greater fallacy than the
embodied in the idea that, farmin
doeseu't pay Fifty years ago,it too
one bushel of corn to buy pound {
nails, now it will buy twenty pound
Fifty years ago it took thirty doze
eggs to buy a pound OF lsalt,1nowo OIL
dozen will buy a bushel. In 1916
required sixty-four bushels Of barley
buy one yard. of broadcloth, now fl,
bushels is large price to pay for
with all the protection of the presel
tariff. Then it took bushel Of whe
to buy a yard of calico, Nv you c.
buy 6fteen yards. Then it took Il
price Of a COW to. buy pair of wool,
blankets, now you can get TWEEN
pairs superior in every way for I
price Of good COW. The purchasil
power of the products of our soil h
increased enormously, and thisincrea
Is in every direction. 1t demonstrat
beyond a doubt that there IS money
farming properly. A man must e
ercise judgement, be industrious a
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