St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-26
ES SENTIAL TO SUCCESS.
The Farmer Must Have Love
for His Vocation and Give 1t His
Rest ThOu Oht

Best Thought.
Thomas d. Baird, in the Prairie
Farmer, talks upon subject which is
old, but still pertinent. whether relat-
ing to the farm or other occupations
that of interest. One may have all the
other factors, he says. for conducting
the business successfully, but without
a lively, active interest he will not at
tain to any degree of success. We may
have good land, we may have good
farming we will have but little interest,
and without it we will not be energetic in
business. We will let our land run
down under poor system of
farming, in which our fields will wash
away, our fences will soon become
shackly and rotting down, growing up
in bushes and briars, so that our crops
are not secure, and we will often SuS-
tain heavy losses from breachy stock.
Our whole farm will have beggarly
appearance, and we become disheart-
ened. We will let our buildings go
down until they are not fit to live in, or
house our stock and crops. Through
the want of interest we will neglect our
stock and let them go down, die or stray
off, until. having lost all, we will be
compelled to buy or have none.
No man will make success at farming
or any other business who is in the
notion to-day of engaging in one bust
ness and tomorrow in the notion of
some other. Mark the man who has
such disposition, and you will see
one who is half his time on the stool of
do nothing" and when at work many
times he is performing labor that
WILL BRING HIM LITTLE OR NO PROFIT
to him; one who believes that book
farming is all stuff; that when a farm
starts down hill you cannot stop it, and
that the only remedy is to clear more
land or move off and buy new farm. l
heard such character say that to see
large clover fields was sign of lazy
man. He was too lazy to cultivate his
fields, so he sowed in clover.
But it is difficult to acquire an interest
in farming, where it is not already en-
listed by sense of the value and inn
portance of this occupation, as it is to
labor patiently and persistentlY, without
can be attained by proper cultivation.
One can by force of will cOnfine himself
and his attention to farming, its pleas
ures and profits. and thus, by force of
habit, acquire love for all the branches
of farming, which will give an interest
that will grow and strengthen as time
runs on.
No one should undertake farming I'M
less he will cultivate love for the bust
ness. Some men will take deep in
terest in some branch of farming, or
some special crop, such as tobacco.
wheat or corn, and make a success of
that, but having no interest in other
branches of their business, they let
losses occur that will eat up the profits
of their favorite crop. However obtained,
an interest must be had to insure sue
cess in farming-and interest that will
see ''gold'' in all things pertaining to
the business, however small they may
be. that will lead to the practice of
economy in all its franciscan interest
that will prompt toward looking ahead
to CLEAN agricultural papers and store
the mind with the rich and valuable
knowledge thus unfolded. While in the
field, the farmer who means to succeed
must plan and execute to take the sterile
soil and render it fertile to plant and
cultivate properly.