Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-07-31
Profitable Agriculture.

Il is frequently said that no man ever
made fortune by agriculture. The
term fortune is rather indefinite, as II
bears relation to persons desires
rather than to his requirements. For
when one begins to accumulate, his
views of what might be satisfactory
competence enlarge with the increase
of his accumulations. At one time Of
his life S., 900 or $4,000 would he con-
sidered sufficient, but when this has
been made ard saved there has been
such change in the manner of life as
to make this sum wholly inadequate,
and it is doubled and trebled and mul.
tiplied by ten, and yet it is not enough.
At the beginning, however, when a
mans views Of this matter are modest,
he figures up sum upon the interest OF
which he can live in his usual manner
without work and enjoy his leisure in
comfort. This is what he considers q
fortune. Perhaps $4,000 to $40, 000
might be considered the lowest limit oa
what a farmer might consider as for
tune or competence. Then we might
ask how many farmers have &C
cumulated this sum in the course OF
an ordinary period of time, let us say
twenty years. Taking a general view
of acquaintance among farmers, one
might safely hazard the statement that
there are more farmers who are in pos
session of this amount of property and
who could afford to retire from business
and rest at ease than there are business
men. merchants, and professional men
who are able to do the same, at fifty
years of age. There are thousands OF
farmers who are worth 800, 900 each.
and great many whose wealth exceeds
that large sum. while the opportunities
for making money are really greater
among farmers who have good business
habits than they are among any other
industries. The trouble is not that the
opportunities are wanting, but rather
the shrewdness and tact to seize them,
and the industry to turn them to ac-
count Not farmer in ten thousand
works as hard and has less leisure than
y business man who succeeds. And the
farmers who have made conspicuous
success have been men of the closest
industry and the most enlerpris-
ing business habits. For instance,
there was a New York farmer,
John johnson by name, who began
work about forty years ago on a farm
near Geneva. He went in debt for his
farm, bought on credit large pile OF
manure which neighbor wanted to
get rid of, borrowed money to drain his
land. became wealthy from the rich
returns yielded b. his farm, and
passed his declining years in ease
and comfort, and left more than $780,
900 when he died. A farmer in Wis
consin recently died rich under similar
circumstances. A Canadian farmer
now living in wealth and with nearly
100000, came from Scotland thirty
years ago with 500. put it all in land
1T 81 an acre, and soon had an in come
from it Of more than $4,000 a year Of
grain alone; his stock now brings him
man had not dollar when he reached
these shores, and his cattle alone to-
day would sell for more than 500, 0e0.
A Georgia farmer died few days ago,
leaving 800. Oe0. all made by farming.
His last years crop of cotton was 600
bales, worth $40, OO0.-AnnericGn Raeval
Home. Z.
Lemon Biscuits: One pound Of
Hour, three ounces of butter, half
pound of sugar. two eggs. one
lemon. Rub the butter into the -four,
add the sugar and the grated lemon
rind, add the yelk of the eggs. and all
the lemon juice If needed: whisk the
;hites last. Roll out tain, cut into
ounds with paste cutter. Bske in 4
rather slow ovea. They must be kept
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