The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-25
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risk of absolute failure to men en-
gagged in business of other kind than
to the farmer. and infinitely more OF
an utter inability to find employment
if he becomes a Wage-wOrker-
In every town and city of our land
there are men by the scores, hundreds
and thousands able and Wiling 10
work. and whose families suffer from
the necessaries of life because they
cannot find employment. The difficulty
of finding profitable employment is abb
solutely appalling. Young men trained
as statesmen. with Al recommends
tions from former employers, and with
influential friends watching and work
ing for them, have been out OF en-
ployment for a full year, and if
merchant advertises for clerk he VIII
need to employ d private secretary to
answer his letters for month
If the farmer can sell out and have
small capital to start in business with,
he must come in competition with men
who have long training and experience,
and the chances are that he VIII lose
what he has rather than increase 1t. L
am not calamity bowler or a pessi-
mist. and would not willingly write
anything to discourage the farmers,
and that is far from my intention now.
1 know that any man willing to work
and who owns ten acres of land need
have no fear that his family will go
nutiSlNs anu lildI IAC can 4llib sum
thing to do that will add to the value
of his home or furnish nefessaries for
his family every day in the year, and
while there viii be many things which
he would like to have that are beyond
his reach he can have enough 20 give
happiness and plenty.
Economy is not popular word, but
its practice is entirely consistent with
self-respect, contentment and happi-
ness.
I have a wide acquaintance with
farmers. and know some who are liv-
ing beyond their means, who have not
the moral courage to reduce their style
of living to correspond with this in
come. They give entertainments
travel, take the fine magazines and live
in as good style as people who have a
large and assured income, but they are
harraSsed with duns, and are getting
deeper in debt each year.
| wish every farmer could honestly
afford all these luXuries, but he can
not unless he can pay cash down for
them, and they cost more than they
are worth when they cost him his
credit and good name. l am ac-
quainted with other farmers who meet
cheerfully the privatiOns which hard
! times make necessary, who would
rather wear old clothes and eat plain
! country fare than to run in debt for
! that which is better.
They retain their self-respect, and
when crops and prices improve, as
they surely will, they will be able to
furnish their families with many lux
uries they now do without, while those
who are now living beyond their means
viii have to work and save to pay the
/ debts they are now accommodating.
l believe that one of the best rene
dies with the farmers is to make the
/ farm produce as nearly as possible all
/ the family needs. Have a good garden
and berry patch, keep plenty of poultry
/ and COWS. Do you say eggs are cheap
/ and butter don't pay for churning? l
know thew are low, but so is what
! they will buy. We are selling eggs at
s cents dozen and butter at L cents
a pound, but we get 80 dozen week of
! eggs and Is pounds of butter and one
dozen of eggs and one pound of butter
viii buy four pounds of the best sugar,
and for three years 1 have paid my
entire grocery bill from these sources,
| and it is a comfortable feeling to have
the grocer owing me instead of my
having bill to pay at the end of the
year.
Milk. eggs. poultry, vegetables, fruits,
meats and breadStuffS all can be pro-
duced on the farm in the greatest
abundance and of the choicest quality,
and a little surplus of each, even if
! prices dT6 lONN. W III lQIIliSI lliOI4GN "
pay taxes and for the necessaries of
/ life. Cream, butter. eggs, poultry and
many other things that are luXuries,
to be used sparingly on the tables of a
majority of those living in towns, can
/ be had in the greatest abundance on
| any farm. and they are as palatable
! and nutritious when the price is low
as when il is high.
! | think that on an average three
| fourths of the money earned by men
! employed in cities is paid out for the
very things you get from the farm, and
while their income stops entirely every
/ ture which are under the guidance of
/ the farmer, work for him While he is
/ sleeping and resting. Grass grows, hens
! lay eggs and rear chickens, COWS give
milk and vegetables and fruits are
| perfected.
The farmer does not work under a
boss; he is not obliged to repeat mo-
! notonously over and over again the
same thing; his work is not in a close,
! ill-ventilated basement or attic, but it
is full of variety. under the blue skies.
! 1t brings him in contact with animal
and vegetable life at all times and
| leads him to realize his dependence on
the great All Father. Do not hastily
make up your mind TO leave the farm
and do not get discouraged, for a dis
/ couraged man rarely does good work.
The poet said wisely:
"'Tis better to endure the ills we
] have than fly to others that we know