Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-16
Does Fruit Growing Pay.
Orerton shar1.- ,houter.

overtou sharp shooter.
How frequently is the question
asked does fruit growing pay? Does
farming pay! Does poultry keeping
or the dairy pay! Bless your souls,
yes! A thousand times yes, yes, yes.
All kinds of business pays, has al
ways paid good profits. Can you tell
me of any kind of business that does
not pay if wisely undertaken and
judiciously and persistently pursued?
No you cannot. If any kind of bust
ness should become permanently I'M
profitable it would be discarded.
That most kinds of business are con-
tinued is conclusive that they are
profitable. The question to be con-
sidered is this: Is fruit growing (or
whatever business you have in mind)
profitable to you? and if not, why
not? If others make it profitable,
why cannot you? First-You may
expect too large profits. You can
buy 300 pins for 6 cents, yard of
calico for 6 cents, 60 clothes pins for
10 cents, 100 pounds of steel nails
with key for $40. There is money
made in manufacturing these things
at such prices. Does your business
pay you less profits? Second-Your
expenses of living, or of conducting
your business may be excessive.
Third-You may be poor fnancier
or a poor manager. Fourth-You
may be shortsighted, not looking far
enough ahead. Fifth-You may not
be adapted to your business, or may
not possess enough capital. Sixth
Your location may not have been
wisely selected. Whatever the cause
of your not making your business
profitable, the fault is not in the par
ticular pursuit, but in yourself or
your surroundings.
No kinds of business continues to
give the same profits for long series
of years. This is a world of changes,
and every trade has its ebb and flow,
its expansions and contractions, yet
is always on the average profitable.
Shall this induce you to be ever
changing from one enterprise to an
other, hoping ever to float on the
tide of the greatest prosperity, never
meeting with seasons of depression
Some have tried this, but, being in
experienced in every new venture
they were soon in distress. The fact
that everything is changeable and
liable to fluctuations gives the far
seeing man greatadvantage to secure
wealth, while the same changes may
be the ruin of the man who sees only
an inch from his nose.
Yes, fruit growing pays, has al
ways paid, and will so long as the
earth is inhabited There will be
times when some kinds of fruit will
be grown to excess III certain sec
tons of the country, but in such
cases foolish men bring about a
healthy reaction by discontinuing
the business, or destroying their or
chards, or the rapidly increasing
population exhausts the surplus, and
all goes on profitably again. Do not
become discouraged by slight causes.
Sell your productions for what you
can get and accept the result like a
philosopher. I have known people
to be disheartened by areduction in
price SO far as to neglect to gather
the crops they had failed to secure.
There appears to be an element in
the affairs of all men that tests their
courage. It is the law of the survi-
val of the fttest. The tendency is
toward the humiliation of those
easily disheartened, and the perpe-
tuation of those who have courage.