The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-30
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Success In Farming.

Nountry Oentieman.
The rule may be laid down, with very few ex-
c~eptions. that men like the business in which
they are successful. and acquire q dislike to
that in which they fail. To the farmer. large
aud fine crops, raised at reasonable expense,
and paving well in money, afford positive en-
~joyment; and he cannot help feeling . certain
delight, aside from the money profit, in viewing
the rich and luxurIant fields, under clean and
neat cultivation, the result OF continued good
management. He Wi. feel less disposed 20
give ND the business. pull up stakes and move
into town, or migrate to the distant regions OF
the West. than the man who has weedy
and stunted corn crops, wintrr-kiled and
chess-lAden wheat, bug-eaten potatoes
and scant products generally. together
with the frequent losses and vexatious OF the
fences. and delays from dsrsneed farm ma.
chimes. The question might be presented to the
owner OF such q farm, whether be who permits
such arrangements would be spy more success
full In city business, or With his superficial laoors
spread out over the wIlds OF the West.
The farmer who would make rural pursuits
attractive to his sons aud induce them to con-
tinue farmers, should surround them with
pleasant associations. give them an interested
share in tho profits, present to them a hand
somely laid-out homestead. with neat fences,
clean fields and eood-iooking buildings he
should not make them mere drudges az q mat
ter of convenience to himself, but throw UPON
them some responsibility, and give them the
stimulus OF participation In successful results.
Il great mistake is made by many cultivators
in spreading out their business over too many
acres for the amount OF appliances they can
use for thorough and profitable work. Super
fetal culture is the great enemy of good farm
ing. The word ''slipshod' should never
truthfuiiy apply to farm management A
whsat-feld thoroughly cultivated before SOW
ing often makes all the difference between
twelve bushels an acre and luxuriant crops OF
twenty-five or thirty bushels 1t is more
economical OF labor to cut and gather three
tons of hay from an acre of meadow, than to
spread all the work required for the three Sons
over four or five acres, as is often done by poor
managers. Tho single rich acre is more easily
lowed and cultivated IN obtaining the seventy
shelled bushels Of corn, than the three badly
titled acres for the same amount of crop, even II
done in the most careless manner. The man who
has a moderate sized and productive farm has Z
shorter drive for his team. in drawing in crops
and 10 returning manure, and 10 the daily rou'
tine in the superintendence of work.
But it must not be understood that merely
occupying q small farm means profit and sue
cess. or that q large one is failure. A large
farm may be admirably managed and yield cor
responding profits, provided the owner has thu
means TO carry it on in the best manner. So or
the other hand the occupant OF . small place
may easily neglect and mismsuaee it. But The
mistake is quite common that the small farm II
q detriment, because the best care is not giver
to Ii. q course which is much easier on thu
whole than on broad domains.