Arizona republican., 1898-05-21
SUCCESS IN CATTLE BUSINESS

SUCCESS IN CATTLE BUSINESS.
 Success in the cattle business is governed by the same principle as sue cess in any other line of business. It is founded upon cardinal principles of character and conduct, which are measure of the man always, and which, if incorporated in a mans life, lead surely to success. Whether the business be shoeing a horse. building a house, operating mills CT operating a railroad. First of all, he that has eyes let him see, and he that has ears let him hear. Whether old or young let him manifest humility. willingness and activity in learning from all the successful men around him. Be awake, catch all the points as you go along with due regard to differences of circumstances. Adopt all the gocd ideas, methods and habits of your fel- low citizens and avoid their bad ones. It is true there is no one from whom you cannot learn something.
 2. The second requisite to which I invite your attention is illustrated by saying that birds fly in the air and od. nature is that man (and all creation) must adjust himself to his environ ments. This is absolutely true in the cattle business. No two parts of the world have exactly the same soil, eli mate and products. I feel sure that many failures have oocurred in the cattle business and large sums of mon- ey lost through disregard of this principle You cannot farm in Kan sas on the Illinois plan, nor in Barber county as you would in Bourbon coun- Ety. The same good sense, k5en obser- | vation and adjustment of conditions, however, will succeed in the one place as in the other. The obvious and spe- cific application of Texas fever is that you should not. except as a last resort, | put cattle under radically different climates, change conditions especially 1 if aged cattle. They then have less | fleXibility of adjustment than the very young ones. It is certainly better to
 recruit your herds as nearly as possible
 from nearly or at least similar condi- tiOns.
 | 3. Steadiness, perseverance, persis- tence of purpose and patience are
 some requisites of success in any busi-
 ness. In examining these qualities
 we stumble on the most important diff
 ferences between men; between the
 light, airy. feathery and fitful charac-
 ter and the steady, strong, weighty
 character who holds to the even tenor
 of his way amid wintry blasts and
 summers sun. He does not abandon
 his way to chase every butterfly that
 happens to fit across it.
 l He does not advertise whims on his 1 face nor peddle ever changing projects
 at the end of his tongue The surface
 of a duck pond is changed by every l little breeze that strikes it, but the
 quiet bosom of the great ocean Is only
 stirred by the most tremendous storms and even then it gives no hint of the
 mighty currents of it's depths. The | little dory dances on the wave now way up and now way down, until
 some larger wave overturns and over
 whelms it. but the steel cruiser maSes- 1 tically and evenly cuts the wave-and propelled by the tremendous energy
 of it's engines within and guided by
 intelligence at the wheel 1t gees un-
 swervingly to its destination. YCu l find many men dancing about like the dory; in prosperity they are on the pinnacle; in diversity they are in the
 depths-you never can tell how you
 Will lind them on any particular day or hour. When cattle are high they
 want cattle at any cost and without
 limit When cattle go dctvn they
 want to unload at any sacrifice; gei out Of the business-chase some other will-'o-the-wisp-jump on and hell
 spoil some other business that happens to be temporarily prosperous. This
 changing about. this rest1essness is
 never welded to success, and is the
 conspicuous weakness of our people
 It makes business calculations diff
 cult, the folly of the simple is always the greatest problem of the wise. The thing to do is to stick to your line
 especially when it is unpopular. But
 when everybody wants to sell and il
 you sell-sell when everybody want:
 to buy.
 4. Another important requisite i: that cattlemen must be close in thei1 business methods; keep accurate ac , counts with their merchants, banks and all connections It will not do tt allow every one else to keep account:
 for you. Not that people would chea
 you, but that knowing every day wha you are doing you are not likely tt overstep yourself. No man ever al lowed his store bill to run at random 'I who was not sure his dealer had no doubled on him when he came to pay man spends manifold more when h. is not noting the items.
 : 5. Every cattleman should stan'