The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-23
What Will Our Young Men Do.

r. lEl6QQ cdult5>fffS9-eTf6 COnS61CuG1OH
office a few days ago and said: "My
son has just finished college; l want
to help him into business, and want
you to help me. Ihave plenty of land,
but farming don't pay, and my son
prefers some other business. The pro-
fessions are oveIcrowded, and l think
if he can get situation in some bust
ness house he will do better. He is a
steady boy, willing to work and has
no bad habits. | have no money to
get him up in business, on his own
account, and besides, | prefer to let
him learn something about il before l
risk any money, as somany fail in
business"
There is no doubt that half the
farmerS.aiSsi1is State who have sons
Just life make the same
mist man that has 500 acres
OF Georgia to give his son is
Ne him in better fix for
On if he had $4,000 in bank
ailroad stock or money to give
Rot one man in twenty-five sue
lede in profession; not one in tWen-
'ty succeeds 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 with,
We know no better mission tor an en-
ergetic, well educated young man
than to take 500 acres of Georgia
land and make it do It's best. Let him
start out with the determination to
succeed; let him work and see that
every one around him works; let him
continue from day to day, from week
to week, and month to month to add
improvements to his land; keep out
IF debt, and all he makes more than a
support let him add to this land in
permanent improvements. He will
find in ten or fifteen years, us he
begins to gather family around
him, that his land has increased
in value-that he is interested in
his home, in his farm, in his
stock-that his children are healthy
and independent and happy; in short,
that he is a successful citizen, who
hiss made himself comfortable and
added immensely to the prosperity of
his state. The hope of our state is
that the large farmers will divide up
their plantations among their chill
dren mot forgetting good education,
farmer as for a professional MANI that
their children will keep up with the
progress OF the age in improving their
places-sticking with great fidelity to
one fact, and that is make everything
they can for home use. and buy only
such things as are absolutely necessa-
ry, and which they cannot make
themselves.
There is no greater falacy than that
embodied in the idea that farming
doesn't pay. Fifty years ago it took
one bushel of corn to buy a pound of
nails, now it will buy twenty pounds.
Fifty years ago it took thirty dozen
eggs to buy pound OF salt, now one
dozen eggs will buy bushel of salt. In
1916 it required sixty bushels of barr
ley to buy one yard of broadcloth now
five yards is a large price to pay for it.
with all the protection of our present
tariff. Then it took a bushel of wheat
to buy yard of calico, now you can
buy fifty yards. Then it took the
price of cow to buy pair of wooden
blaneets, now you can get twenty pairs
superior in every way for the price of
a good cow. The purchasing power
of the products of our soil has in
creased enormously and this increase
is in every direction. 1t demonstrates,
beyond doubt. that there in money in
farming properly. A man must exer-
else Judgment, be industrious and eco
nomical to succeed, but if he cannot
do this he will fail in everything. 1t
is the duty of every land owner in
this state to instill into his children
the necessity of looking alone to his
land for living. 1t is the cost relia-
BILE; panics may come but they will
not effect the Industrious farmer who
is out of debt, with good house to
live in. There is no happier man in
our state to-day than an industrious,
economical, contented, educated far
mer. The great Creators idea of
happiness for man was the Garden of
Eden. And all the evils that followed
are the result of desire to improve
on what God then made perfect, and
from that day to this mans hap
piest days We're spent at home on a
farm that he had beautified with his
own labor, eating his own bread I'M
der his own vine and fig tree.
Let our young men who are look
ing for situation after going through
college, make up their minds to take
the land their father is willing to
give. Let him resolve to make liv-
ing on it, and to add the surplus each
year to its Improvement. Diversity
the crops in it, select that which pays
the best, raise good stock, fruits, ETC.,
and every year make the land you eul-
tivate better than it was before, and
we are willing to risk your condem-