The Bossier banner., 1892-07-28
FARMER AND PLANTER.
FOUNDATION OF SUCCESS.

Would YOU be Successful as a Farmer
Then You Must Have Interest In Your
Work.
Observation has taught US the first
and most important point to successful
farming is interest. l have seen men
start out having all other required
points for conducting the business suc1
cessfully, but they lacked that interest
that was lively and active, and they are
no better off to-day than when they be-
gan believe man may be in posses
sion of good land, he may get good
stock, provide himself with good farm
ing implements, but unless he has love
for farming he will have but little inter
est, or at least he is not apt to be ener-
getic and attentive in all the details
pertaining to the business. He will
soon let his land run down under poor
system of farming, in which his soil
will wash away, his fences will soon
become shaek1y and rot down, growing
up in bushes and briars, 80 that his crop
are not secure, and often he Will sustain
heavy losses from breachy stock. His
buildings will soon have to be rebuilt
or have none safe or fit to live in, or
house his stock or his crops. Through
the want of interest he will neglect to
| give his stock the attention that they
should have and let them go down, die
or stray off until he has lost all or none
worthy the name, and will be compelled
to buy or have none.
No man will do any good at farming
who Is in the notion to-day of following
| this business and tomorrow in the no
ton of some other business Mark the
man who has such disposition and you
| will see one that is half his time doing
| nothing, and when at work many times
he is performing labor that will be none
OF but little profit to him, one who
scorns the idea of book farming as it is
sometimes called, as all humbuggery,
and scrub stock as good as blooded,
that when farm starts down you can
not stop it. / heard such character
say, to see large clover fields was sign
of lazy man. A man may follow
some other calling and at the same
time be good farmer, but he will al
the same time have a lively, active in
! UoT0SG Ill HIS ldTHis hAO" Az 10 d COLll
mon saying, slack of all trades anc
good at none," but have seen men fol
lowing two other professions and at The
same time were making farming pay
Interest causes attention; interes
causes its application in due time ant
IN proper manner.
But it is as difficult to acquire an inter
est in farming where it is not already
enlisted by sense of the value and i'm
portance of this occupation, as 1
Is to labor patiently and per
sistently without such interest. Blu
an interest can be obtained by prope
cultivation. One can by force of viii
confine themselves and their attention
to farming, its pleasures and its profits
and thus by force of habit acquire
love for all the branches of farmin,
which will give an interest which will
grow and strengthen as time runs on
Then If you are on the farm, most es
pecially if you are young, strive for thi
interest, cultivate love for farming
love work for its sake, and the pleasur
it gives then will rise that interest tina
will prompt that energetic industry tha
will turn ali it touches into gold. -Thos
b. Baird, in Southern Cultivator.