Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-07
FAILURE ANO SUCCESS.
Why Some Farmers .srow Wealthy whe
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why som: farners irow Waa thy Where
| O,ers tio 30 Ruin.
Given two young men. with an equal
amount of land. side by side. and with
the saUic amount of capital. Let them
start under exactly the same circum-
stances. In ten years one IF them will
be in the enjoyment of competence.
while the other will have his farm
either heavily mortgaged or else will
have lost it altogether for debts The
first man will have risen early in the
morning and given every thing his per
sonal supervision. He will work hard
himself and hire as little help rs posi-
BILE. He knows that after few years
of well-d rccted industry he will be
able to enjo, his leisure, and he con-
siders the years of hard work to that
end as well spent. His neighbor, on
the other hand, lies abed mornings.
He hires four hands where he ought to
| get along with two, and he is con-
stantly hard quito for the money to
supply the constant drain of hired
help. But he does not propose to work
himself to death like his neighbor, and
SO he goes on in happy-go-lucky fash
ion. Finally, some fine day he puta a
mortgage on his farm in order to raise
| money for what he thinks are the neo-
essary expenses, and when a farmer
does this the end is not far of: It is
always the same-failure to meet inter-
est, foreclosure and ruin.
But sometimes two men start out
with equally industrious habits. Ono
Of them takes two or three good agri-
cultural papers, and reads them care
fully, noting the experience of others
in various directions. He does not
think that he is obliged to follow the
methods of his father and his grand
father because any custom has the
sanction of age. He is ever on tho
lookout for Improvements in farming
operations, and watches carefully the
experiments made by his neighbors.
He adopts the successful plans and
reaps much profit by it His neighbor,
on the other hand. has hearty con-
tempt for new-fangled ideas and mod
ern methods. The old way is good
enough for him, and so he keeps on
blowing, sowing and reaping in tho
good old-fashioned style. He finally
finds that his crops cost him more than
do his neighbors, and he finally puts
an old-fashioned mortgage on his
farm. which quickly goes in the good
old-fashioned way-to the money
lender.
But men will be found who are in
dustrious, work early and late, and
yet, somehow or other, do not make
both ends meet. They buy modern
farm machinery and adopt the best
methods, and yet their outgo exceeds
the income with uniform regularity.
Take walk about such mans farm
and see what the trouble is. Here, Just
where he stopped work, lies the pillow
and harrow in sunshine and rain, and
often through winter. There under .
tree or insufficient shelter is the costly
header or harvester. When harvest
time comes some of the finer machan-
ism is always rusted so as to break
easily and entail loss of time and waste
while being repaired. Look at tho
spindles of the wagons. Instead Of
keeping them well creased, they are
oiled ''once in = WHILE" The wood
work of the wagon is checked and
warped from exposure to tho weather.
and in a short time the vehicle becomes
an old rattle-trap. The farmer who
does not take proper care of the tools
and machinery finds himself obliged to |
invest largely in new articles, while |
those of his careful neighbor are still |
as good as new.
Take another method in which the |
successful and unsuccessful farmer
differ. The former has neat garden
patch close to the house. He has two
OF three cows, and the housewife keeps
some poultry. Every time she goes to
town she has some butter and eggs to
sell, and thus keeps the grocery bill
down to the lowest notch. His neigh.
Dor, however, has no time to waste on
a garden-gardening is the Chinaman's
work anyhow, and the man with the
pigtail can "beat white man all hol-
low raising vegetables" So the Mon
5olian peddler's wagon makes daily
trips to the ranch, and the vegetable
bill makes goodly hole in the farm
er's spare change. AS with vegetables,
50 with poultry and COWS. There is no
lime to putter with such things; every
minute must be devoted to getting in
Is large grain crop as possible. So
he pile of empty fruit and meat cans
It the back of the house keeps on get
ing larger and larger, the bill at the
grocery grows with amazing rapidity,
md the first thing the farmer knows
le has to give mortgage to the mer-
liant, and before many years he wakes
Up some fine morning to find that he
las eaten and drank the entire farm
The difference between the successful
md the unsuccessful farmer might be
pointed out in a number of other particu-
ars. but the points mentioned are
nough for one time and ought to fur
fish some food for thought, for the num-
er of California wheat farmers who
ave absolutely put theirranches down
heir threats is large.-San Francisco
II wouldn't cut that tree down il
were YOU" said a visitor to Rich.
and township farmer who was about :