The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
DOES FARMING PAYe


ne 10 work the farming masses into i
frenzy with view TO thereby feather his
own personal nest YES" says Il cor
respondent of the Country Gentleman,
good farming pays every time. In farm
ing. as in everything else of our present
times, il is simply Il survival of the fit
Test" The correspondent then goes on 10
state that some men may make 4 failure,
and many only a bare living, but others ac-
quire 4 competence. Some merchants fail,
many make l living, y few acquire wealth.
Many lawyers fail some make 4 mere liv-
ing. i few become wealthy. SO ii is in all
the trades and professions.
Education, intelligence, perseverance and
business ability Will win every time. and
these are just as useful and of Just as
much advantage 10 the farmer as TO the
tradesman or professional man.
This correspondent says he recently came
from a section of Wisconsin which in his
early boyhood-twenty years agO-was
literally 4 'howiing wilderness. To-day
the forests have disappeared; so have the
primitive log houses and stables. In their
places are neatly painted farmhouses. great
barns and stables, sleek looking cattle and
broad fields of grain oyer which the farmer
al harvest time drives his fine team and
twine binder, aud At night looks over an
extent OF ten 10 twelve acres covered with
rich shocks OF grain which IN the morning
was uncut Yet he grumOles and says
farming doesn't pay" Il is the popular
refrain. and he finds himself in duty bound
To sing the same song being sung by the
majority. His conscience may Smite him Il
little As he does it, but he joins in all the
same How do the facts sustain him in the
act, Twenty years ago he was Il worth
$500 perhaps not 500 To-day he is worth
5000. SO. 900. OF more. according to his
ability.
SO it is with hundreds of farmers the
writer knows They began life with little
or nothing few Years ago. To-day they
have 4 competence. How much larger per-
centage OF merchants, lawyers. doctors or
manufacturers have done as well! OF the
hundreds of thousands of prosperous farm
erS al over the country. but a small per
centage commenced with capital enough to
start one-horse corner grocery. Every
one of the broad fields, happy homes. neat
cottages, spacious barns and well kept
herds of our country enter standing pro-
test against this oft repeated lie farming
doesn't pay"
There are fewer individual failures among
farmers than among the people engaged in
any other calling. When did YOU ever hear
of a regular farmer who had made an as
signmenta and turned his property over TO
receiver for the benefit of his creditors. as
is being done constantly, more or less. by
business men in almost every town or city?
You may have heard Of such thing, but
when3 Is il n common occurrence as in the
other case? If not, and Yet farming don't
pay, why not, One has but to 90 abroad in
the farming regions to get himself convinced
that good farming does pay in the aggre-
gate, just the same as a walk along the
business streets of city will convince him
that correctly managed trade pays. 1t is
only an adherence to correct business prin-
ciples. and an employment of correct man
agement, that pays in any case. Who can,
true way to look At the question.
This senseless wall over failure of farm
ing to pay is hurting the country more than
anything else that could be sprung. 1t
engenders encouragement and prevents the
putting forth of due effort. 1t retsrds