The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-30
Does Farming Pey7

wv. Sullivan undertakes to answer
anew this old question through the indiana
Farmer. He says there is a strong argn-
-,ent leaning toward the affirmative, in the
obsence OF risk attending farming. Capt.
tal is always jsopardized to a greater or
Ioss extent. so soon as it is placed in the
channels of business. There is no calling
rron the earth, involving, necessarily, so
small percentage of risk as farming. And
:, long as the farme- observes the eleventh
commandment, and attends to his own
business. letting other peoples business
alo,e he is free from that temptation of
speculation which has proved the destruc-
ton Of inuumerable thousands Well es-
tabIished facts show that the per centage of
failures and bankruptcies in farming are
myth. in comparison with those in CONNER
cial pursuits
Ont Of this fact alone, were there no other
recommendations, the business should large
" commend itself to every young man en-
barking in the busy pursuits Of life.
There are other prominent facts that 60
TO prove positively that farming does pay.
Comparatively, the farmer is free from
many of the worrying cares of both the
business man and the manufacturer. His
family have many campensations for the
deprivations of social culture, in having a
freedom from the turmoils and chickering's
If city life, as well as its temptations of
sin. and its increased demands for fashion
aud pride. Then, especially, he enjoys that
greatest of retirement, and self-culture
which are of far more value than it is Gus
tomary to place upon them. Then again,
farming pays because of its Independence.
An unanswerable argument of the en-
nobling tendencies of the farmers life is
the fact that 10 farm is the nursery fur
nishing large proportion of our most use
full men and women, both in literature and
science, as well as in the highest and most
responsible callings in life among us.
The commercial men of our largest cities,
the pulpit, as well as the executive depart
ments of the country, are largely depend
ent upon the genius and strong and daring
intellect of the farm, that have been born
of hardship and self-reliance, the common
heritage of every farmers boy; while very
rarely, indeed, does the petted and pampered
child of wealth and fashion ever distinguish
itself in after-life in any way that the world
is made the better by their having been
born into it.
While all other callings render those en-
gagged in them, in very unpleasant sense,
kind of servant, tire farmer is in direct
partnership with the Advise Father, and
has no concern about the whims and ca
r I. L
ufacturer and merchant must study, and
bow down before them, at their bidding.
Herein consists the great, underlying fact
that his calling is the grandest and noblest
on earth, and continually brings him into
closer contact with natures God than any
other class; causing him to become more and
more moulded and fashioned after the man
ner of his partner in his avocation than if
his business caused him to wear away much
of his life in contention and strife. His
business causes him to take deeper and
larger inspirations of nature than others.
He is dependent upon none but God and
himself.
OF course much of the paragraph last
above is an old chestnut, nevertheless it
really bad men among farmers, as class,
perhaps, than among the people of most
other callings, and the farm has started into
life many of our most illustrious divines.
Henry Ward Beecher was farmers boy,
and though it may not be claimed that in
every respect he was afterward greatman
to be entirely proud Of, IL must be admitted
that he was man of extraordinary taleuts.
He was reared on the farm and performed
its regular labors through his boyhood, and
his first appearance before the public as
anything else than a mere farmer was
made as an agricultural editor-editor of
the old Indiana Farmer at Indianapolis,
still running, as will be seen by the credit
given at the outset of this article. Mr..
Sullivan does not mention this matter, but
we know of it for ourself We we'll re-
. member Mr. Beecher, after he got to preach
ing, when he looked more like a practical
farmer than anything else. He was located
at Lawrenceburg, on the Ohio river, where
he preached at a starvation salary, and
managed to make ends meet by cultivating
good garden with his own hands and fish
ing driftwood from the river to be used in
making the pot boil