Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-03-22
Farm Help.


summer. We are not at all satisfied
trade and customs prevailing generally
throughout New England, and indeed
to large extent all through the coun-
try. There seems to be great deal
more shifting of laborers on farms than
in most or many other industries. The
city merchant or manufacturer, when
advertising for help, often advertises
for young man to "learn the bust
ness" with anticipation OF partnership.
If a young man desires to learn a
trade. he expects to serve a term OF
years as apprentice and at very moder-
ate wages. After serving his time. if
he is not taken into partnership. he NAV
spend few years as 'journeyman,"
going from shop to shop, OF city to city,
and working year or more at place,
in ORDER to perfect himself in art.
Since the agricultural colleges have
been established in many of the States.
there are Jew Young men to be found,
who, having assed through the public
schools and then taken course at the
agricultural college. are DESTROYS to OBJ
tain more practical knowledge of
farm work in all its everyday b siness
details than is possible at the college.
Some Iof these young men would make
excellent help to employ, and farmers
who can appreciate the dir erence be-
tween good, faithful. intelligent men
who arc striving to lean their business
thoroughly. and the careless and shift
less itinerant, who never suits his en-
plover we'll enough to be hired the Sec
ond time, could afford to pay such in
telligent help very liberal wages,
whether for a single season or for q
term OF years. A1# $3.50
We believe. too, that if young men OF
the stamp we have described would
make up their minds to spend from
eight to ten years as journeymen farm
ers. ami would save the wages which
their emp!o, ers would be glad to pay
them, they would at the end of that
period find it not difficult matter to
settle the mselves II on a farm of their
own. and if there should be some de t
upon it, they would. as rule, be able to
manage it 81 cessfully. The majority,
however, of those who leave the agri-
cultural college seem to think that they
must get into some other business by
which to earn the means for buying a
farm. This, we believe, is mistake.
There is constantly increasing num-
Der OF men of intelligence and means,
who are anxious to obtain responsible
and capable young men to help them to
carry on their farms. Many of these
men are not larticularly anxious to
make money by their farming opera
tons, but want a good home on their
country farms. and hope at least to
make them self-supporting, ex as re-
CARDS interest on the investment and
they can Afford aud are willing to pay
an intelligent man, who understands
his business well enough to farm upon
his own account, all that he can posi-
bly, earn as farm manager or work
man. And there should be a larger
number of yong men ready to fill such
places. The fact, is, the places are
much more abundant than are the men
to fill them. There h s scarcely been a
time for years that we could not find
good place for good man on farm.
where the ray wo Id be all that he
could earn, whether it were much or little.
AS trade and manufacturing are now
carried on in this country, the number
who are employed IS comparatively
Very small who can ever hope to stand
at the head of a large manufacturing or
trading house. To become foreman
or o,erseer of department IS the height
of their ambition, while the great ma
joritv would be we'll cpntented if thew
could be assured of steady employment
in the minor places.
On the farms the case is quite differ
emit Few seem willing to work for
Others. but all are in haste to strike out
Tor themselves. and that before they
have half learned their business No
better evide ce of the truth of this is
needed than look at the condition Of
the majority of those who run in debt
for farms. The rule is scarcely with
out an exception that men buy more
land than they can possibly use, with
the canifal they have in anY wax that