The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-06
WHY SOME FARMERS SUCCEED.

/ have had most impressive lessons
this season why some farmers succeed
and others do not. So many complaints
of 'hard times for farmers" is the in
citing cause for keener observation and
closer investigation of methods of far
mers surrounding me. There can be
only one conclusion, and that is, those
who habitually do things timely and
properly are successful to a man. This
lis a significant fact, so far as my know
ledge of farms and farmers extends;
and happily the successful and con-
tented are in the larger majority. Their
general expression is: 81 am still max
ling some money, but not as much as
formerly; still, what l do make will
buy more than formerly, except Of old
debts' And this is probably the true
situation of good farming throughout
the country. The hard times farm
ers have more volume of tongue than
business capacity. Their horn bloweth,
but the sound is hollow. Successful
farmers are reticent, and expend their
energies in prosecuting their legitimate
business The man that most loudly
complains of hard times unconsciously
ljustifies himself by the frayed condi-
ton of his trousers. The habiliament
! OF the successful man evinces it's first
and greatest wear upon his "taps." In
full view is the farm of man who is
a thorough farmer. He began life with
nothing but his hands. He has paid for
! his large, nice farm and is compare
lively young man yet-just in the
prime of business life. He has never
wandered after strange, speculative
of it's soil by doing everything timely
and properly. He had ten acres of
heavy wheat in shock yesterday, and
jalthough the weather promised to con-
| tinue fair, he strained every nerve ear
lily and late, to put it under cover, "be-
cause it is ready to go in and there is
no telling what the weather may be
tomorrow" Night saw it safely housed.
| This morning rain set in and it is
likely to continue indefinitely. Hay all
lin, wheat secured, he can now sit at
| the open door, complacently roll his
thumbs, watch the pouring rain which
his corn and potatoes need; and regret
that some Of his less enterprising
Ineighbors must meet with losses on &C
count of hay and wheat being out in
| the rain. His oats and barley are not
ripe enough to cut and he can have
respite from severe labor for awhile. 1t
lis better in most respects for the farmer
| to push things when crops are ready
land then take rests between times than
| to drag along and have matters push
him continually. The farmer succeeds
exactly in proportion to his timeliness
and thoroughness in his operations. The
lone who permits his affairs to push him
usually falls behind as far as the other
one FORCES ahead. The education of the
farmer begins at the cradle. If the
boy is brought up to be shiftless, if he
hangs up his hat on the floor, if he
throws one garment here and another
there when he retires, if he puts off do
ling his chores to the last minute, he
| will never make a farmer in the true
sense of the word and may as well
take his proper place IN the ranks of
llaborerS where he will have a better
head to direct his movements. If the
boy is brought up by slovenly parents
he will always be slovenly, and that
quality in a man is entirely antagonis-
tic to successful farming. Several in
iStanceS have come to notice where tidy,
successful farmers have adopted boys
from shiftless families who had other
boys. The adopted boys made excellent
farmers and those who remained at
home were always poor, shiftless
coots." Boys brought up by tradesmen
or professional men and trained in
neatness and promptness, make good
farmers as a rule when they undertake
lit because they carry correct habits
with them. Tell me how a boy is being
brought up and I will tell you what
kind of a farmer he would make Slow
lenly farmers are not aware that their
Ishiftless premises advertise their own
ack of proper training and that of
their parents. Farming has arrived at
"a pass where only strict business prin-
Iciples command success. It is a sad
sight to see now and then an old farm
Ter fail because of unbusinesslike meth
DDS and then go to the village and keep
Iboarding-hou only opening left
to llm-Dr. Galen Wilson