Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-06-05

Does Farming Pays

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IL Is Just as reasonable to ask II any
other occupation pays, rs to ask, Does
farming payp Some persons make
farming pay, and others 40 not. Some
persons make fortunes In trade, whlle
others lose all they have. Some men
succeed in the practice OF law or medi-
cine, while others fail. Not more.than
| one-third of the lawyers and doctors OBJ
tain more than q livelihood from the
| practice of their profession. Not
| than one in ten Of the merchants become
| wealthy in trade. Yet nine-tenths OF
| the farmers make their business pay
| them something more than enough 10
paw their expenses, and save a little 70
add to their capital. The profits in
farming are not large, but they are sure,
and attended with very little risk.
Looking at farming as a whole, n
iudoing from the condition of the whole
class Of farmers we should say that
farming paws the best Of any occupation.
n pays the best because it secures a
competence to a larger proportion OF
those engaged in it than any other occu-
patton. Compared with the mechanic,
the farmers lot seems decidedly to be
preferred. A large part OF the men en-
ployed in manufacturing shops, mills
and factories, obtain only about $l.25
to ST. 0 per day, and have a family to
support out of that. After paying rent,
buying groceries, clothes, food and 9th
er necessary supplies for the year, the
mechanic who earns only $1.25 or $l.5O
per day, has little left, and if he has
had the misfortune to have sickness III
his family, very likely then he is unable
to meet his current expenses The me-
chanic works more days in the year,
and more hours in the day, on an aver
age, than the farmer, and works in
less wholesome atmosphere, and saves
less from his years work.
Farming does not pay with SOM
farmers. Some men who have beef
piven good farms, are unable to obtalI
a living from them, and are finallyforce(
to abandon them. There are farmers wht
could squander the largest fortunes
thew were LEFT to them. Such persons
. have no faculty for holding on to prop
erty. 1t is very easy matter, however
to manage q farm in such a way tina
t there will be no profits derived from II
/, The farm tools may be left Just wher
n they were used last, until they az
wanted again, exposed all the time
? the weather. Exposure to the weathe
INJURIES tools as much as use does, 5
that the owner who does not care &c
- his farm tools will have to be to thre
times the expense in purchasing thel
that another will who does take goo!
care of them. Farm Implements,
these days are numerous and very e:
l. p~ensive. and he who leaves them OF
n doors will not be able to make farmlr
s, paw. Farming does not pay with son
IS persons because they are so "shlftless
10 and ..slack," letting everything 60 U,
10 til it falls to pieces before any repal
10 are attempted. Numerous losses befs
OF them on account Of such managemer
!. Lack of Judgment prevents others fro
u making farming profitable. Su
III ones fail to bring together I
as right conditions to secure good crop
ID Their corn comes up uneven, fails
er grow thrifty; their potatoes are {
dy stroyed by the beetles because OF a i
nd DAYS of neglect; their wheat was so,
an when the ground was too wet, n fail
to come up well; their grass lane ia
to be productive; their farm stock IS
81, iudiciously fed, and occasionally an {
nd imal dies, and the rest of them are I
gn thrifty. These are samples OF the "
everything goes on some farms.-N
o. EnQland Farmer.
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