The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-24

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Business is now and has been forI
weeks quiet over the entire country.
Those who are doing business at al
large profit are but few; the great
majority are satisfied if their business
profits cover their expenses. Many
people are not doing that much.
Young men especially who are out of
employment should provide against
another such condition of affairs att
some future day. What has happened
to depress trade in past times, it is
safe to calculate will happen again.
There is one occupation that hardly
ever Efails to furnish living when
nearly every other will not do it. The
most sure road to success is farming.
Other occupations sometimes furnish
more speedy returns of profit, but are
lprecarious, and more frequently dis
appoint the expectant of gain. Now
is the time for landless young men,
married or unmarried, to strike for al
farm before all the choicest lands pass
from the public domain. The time is
mot distant when there will be mol
desirable unoccupied land for agricul-
|tural purposes remaining. At no time|
in previous years has the cultivation
sof the soil for as great variety Of pur-
poses been appropriated as now.
Every year some new product has
been found adapted to the soil and
climate of the great Northwest. Scien-
stifc farming, which some years ago.
was treated indifferently as a useless
waste of study, has become fixed
necessity for intelligent farming.
with the introduction of new indus
tries in agriculture, the operations of
1.-THE tiller of the soil are continually
expanding. Now is the time for young
men 10 choose the occupation of farm.
ling, instead of going to the over-crowded
scity, and finding only precarious en-
lployment; now, while lands are still
abundant and cheap, is the golden Cpl
sportunity for securing a farm, which
lin due time, under reasonable circum-
stances, will make the possessor I'M
dependent. Take for illustration the
farmers of Kenosha and neighboring|
counties. A large proportion of these
came West comparatively poor, but
hundreds of them are now independent,
surrounded with the comforts and con
Aveniences of life. Were the history of
Those known who chose other occupa-
tions at the time when the people in
Athis county took to the business of
farming, it would probably appear
THAT their success has not been equal.
lit is reasonable to conclude that the
thousands who have gone to Dakota,
sdurlng the past two years, will in due
time make like showing in wealth
land independence as have the early
Farmers of Wisconsin.
To choose farming is to make choice
sof INDEPENDENCE; all other avocations
sare more subject to the fluctuations of
trade and pecuniary disaster. With
almost marvellous improvements in
agricultural machinery. The farmer isl
relieved of the worst drudgery of farm
life. Much of his business is now
that of an overseer; he directs the
Operations of labor-saving machinery
more effectively than the Southern
planter in the days of slavery directed
This human chattles. There is no emu
kployment which affords better oppor-
Stunlty for mental improvement; his
hours are his own. A large proper
4 tion of those who reside in the cities|
lido not often own so much of their own
time. Young men who now enter onl
Ian agricultural life, aided as they are|
lby all the helps of modern machinery, j
Iare destined to become the leading cit
lizens of the country. We repeat that
| in the general stagnation of trade the|
world over, let the landless men betake|
themselves to the fertile regions of thel
West. The securement of homestead
will be almost certain to insure against
want; if it does not lead to immediate|
wealth, its promises of reward are mott
.deceptive.