Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-13
-
PROFITABLE rARMISG.

HOwt may Be EHected WIN success.
Germantown Telegraph.
We observe that our article some time
ago on the question whether farming will
or will not pay, attracted good deal Of
attention. The point that we made was
that so many lazy fellows who call them
selves farmers ought not TO succeed, and
yet that it is Just this sort who are held up
to the world as the great illustrations that
farming will not pay. 1t occurs TO us that
few words farther, why some fail who
are not altogether OF that abOminable
class, may not be amiss.
There are too many men who put their
all in single venture, and il that fails are
utterly used up. There is perhaps no
business wherein two strings to one
bow" is so important. In almost all other
pursuits there are certain rules which
have been founded on experience and
which the shrewd man of business eau
take advantage of with an almost assured
centainty of success. But we cannot do
this. We cannot tell what will happen to
our crops. Sometimes il may be over dry
sometimes over wet sometimes We are
plagued with swarms of insects, at other
times we are afflicted with blight and
mould. Against none OF these do we get
the slightest hint.
DuI Wo uWcII Ou Iuisti5cWutIt III SPEAK
ing Of the value of diversifying our pro
ducts. TTcuble never strikes everything
alike. Some will succeed But indenpan.
IDENTIFY Of all this, the young farmer should
never be cast down by misfortune. IL is
here where so many fail. We knew one
once who had made by city work some
eight thousand dollars He had originally
been brought up on farm, and had always
made up his mind to return To it as soon
as he had accumulated enough to war
rant him in making start. But he put
away $1,000 and invested only six in the
farm and stock. 1t so happened that the
next two years found him in terrible
losses but they brought experience ard
he fell back on his small reserve, and this
with his new experience gave him new
and good start. IL is not so long ago but
he now considers himself worth about
s25, 900 and is one of the most ardent al
vocates that farming toill pay.
Divorrifed Agriculture.
The amazing success of American agri-
culture in the last quarter of century is
very generally attributed TO the use Of
improved machinery as applied to the cul
vation OF few leading crops, but our own
impression is firm and strong that no
small share of this work of success has
been caused by the enlarged development
OF more diversified crops, especially in the
Northern and Western states. la New
York state the introduction into the rural
districts of establishments on an exten
sive scale for the manufacture of butter
and cheese, has produced results of SO
much Importance that similar organizl
tions are now found in New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and most OF the Northwestern
States. On the other hand, tho immense
grain growing interests of the Northwest
have developed on proigious scale a
system OF local grain elevators established
by the railroad companies for the storage,
purchase and sale of grain crops, which
principle will no doubt ultimately become
universal in all the great grain producing
districts of the republic.