The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-11
SUCCESSFUL EARNING.

The past fifty years in the life OF this
country, in the development of its
scientific and mechanical work, has no
parallel in mans existence. Go TO the
great center5 of commerce. behold this
immense network Of railroads, consider
all these stupendous mills and ma
chinery. and do you wonder that the i'm
aSination of the rising generation is
aroused? Do you wonder that these
quiet, unpretending, non-progressing
homes that have STOOD unmoVed these
fifty years are disturbed, disquieted,
finally abandoned?
mixed husbandry with tolerable degree
Of success. no ordinary farmer. with
himself and the help usually kept on our
farms, has either the physical or the
now in practice. You are all familiar
with the methods by which large manu-
1acturlng estabHsnments are conducted:
Every man has his particular line of
work. and as he becomes familiar with
it, the best results are obtained.
The lines of competition are being
drawn tighter and tighter. and the
farmer who desires to achieve financial
q basis approXima tely somewhat to the
principles upon which other industries
are conducted.
The farmer is, to a large extent, man
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manufacturing of too many. kinds of
goods at the same time. He has to deal
with animal and Vegetable life. with all
the mysteries that enter into the compo-
sition of the soil, the action of light and
heat. the eYer-Earying seaSOns-in fact.
he is in natures marvellous laboratory,
, surrounded by forces and mysteries, in
a measure beyond the comprehension of
ordinary noralists. Imagine farmer
with $4,000 invested in a well regulated
farm. with f1ocks and herds fruits, veget-
ables and grasses. He is standing in the
midst OF all these, ninistering to their
various needs. and conditions, and out
| of all this wonderful mechanism he is
to produce the food to support him.
( Turn now to the $4,000 manufacturer
! perhaps engaged in making doors anG
sash, carriages or some line of goods
| Which of these two men needs the mos
brain power to be successful?
| II 1t is all one man is capable OF &c
! follow one profession, or one line of work
in the mechanical world. what think yOU
/ of the farmer who attempts to master
all kinds of work involved in mixe6
| When we contemplate the tendency Of
the times, we can arrive at no other con
| Clusion than that the future farmer must
follow out some line of work to its
dustry. The ordinary farmer cannot
! compete, and should not raise more thar
| enough for home consumption.
The raising Of milk can only be sue
cessful as one adapts his crops to this
| line select animals that are best adapted
to the production Of milk and feeds sc
as to obtain the best results at the least
cost. It is easy to breed and so mana5t
a dairy as to produce from 200 to 25
pounds of butter annually. The difference
! between a cow that produces less thar
! 100 pounds of butter and one that pro
/ duces 22S pounds is the difference be
tween failure and success. But the DIFF
| ference in value hetMeen 100 pounds O
perior article, carries the comparison {
! great way further.
| Such fearful odds exist in no other in
to te az" fern M 70 tbaf wSan ca g1ct
knowledge can be obtained concerning
single branch of his labor he viii ALLOW
such a discrepancy to exist. NJ Con
nor before the Vermont DairymanS as
! ISOLATION