The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-08-30

bacco crop is Of little value TO you, un-
lees your knowledge Of what the market
demands is sufficient to enable you TO
handle your crop advsntageOusly after it
is cut. And this proposition might be
extended until It embraced all branches
Of your work and indeed the more con-
template it the more convinced am 1
that am absolutely correct in asserting
that a broader knowledge Of subjects in
general is necessary to success in farm
ing than in any other kind or character
of work. l am flee to confess have not
this knowledge and could not hope to
succeed at farming until 1 acquired it.
Our Merchants, Physicians, Lawyers,
Mechanics and Politicians as q rule
have 1t not and l dare say they could
not succeed.
To be successful farmer, you must
be mechanic, for your various ma
chimes must be set up, over hauled and
kept in order.
You must have some knowledge Of &C.
ology else your farms will run down and
your timber will profit you nothing.
Your knowled &c of Mathematics must
be good, for you doubtless, in the course
Of each year, have use for every rule in
Arithmetic. No less great should be
your knowledge Of Botany for the cult
walton of plant life is your daily work.
You must know something Of disease
and the properties and application Of
remedies, else your cattle will not prove
profitable.
You must know something of engin-
eering, else the cultivation of your
farms will cause them TO wash.
You must be trader and thoroughly
familiar with the markets, else you will
lose money in disposing of your produce
and be imposed upon in purchasing
your supplies.
You must know something of law, for
there constantly arise questions between
landlord and tenant, boundary and sum
dry other questions, a large percentage
OF which can be equitably adjusted be-
tween you without spending your yearly
profits and perhaps more, in unprofita-
BILE lawsuits.
Some Of you have acquired this know
ledge by experience and some by study
and experience. If you have acquired
it by experience alone, you have doubt
less found the requirement OF knowledge
expensive; those who will acquire it by
experience alone, will also find it expen-
sive, for experience, though an excellent
teacher, is unquestionably costly.
To those Of you who are ambitious
that your children should succeed with
out relying alone upon experience,
should each consider himself commit
tee of one to see to it that the school
your child attends is we'll conducted and
we'll attended. That your teacher is
competent; That he is we'll and prompt
ly paid for his services; That he feels
that you are interested in his work and
are in full sympathy with him in his eff
forts to teach your child how to think,
for that is the key note. Your child
must be taught to think and unless he lie
capable Of thinking when he becomes a
man, he will be of little value. Make
him 20 to school every day during the
session and make him study. If it is
necessary for you to work few hours
longer each day in order that your child
might go to school little longer each
year, you can make no better investment
than by doing such additional work.
Now to aid you, who have reached the
years Of maturity, in achieving greater
success, know Of no better plan, 30 far
as 1t goes, than meetings and discussions
of this character. Keep them up, take
an interest in them, participate in the
exercises and you will be certain to de-
rive benefit thereirom, to say nothing Of
the pleasure you must experience from
meeting again your old friends and cor
daily shaking them by the hand.
There 10 an experiment now being
made which l heartily advocate and
trust will soon be pronounced a success
and put in full operation and which will
be of inestimable benefit TO you; and
that is the distribution Of daily mails
throughout the country by means of
wagons, This will place at your door
daily papers and magazines, the study Of
which, excluding the political rot they
contain, is an education within itself 10
men of your age in all the branches Of
study have mentioned as we'll as those
l have failed to call your attention to.
But promised in the beginning not
to detain you long and now returning to
my original theme, it is my pleasure 70
say TO those Of you who are strangers,
that the Relationship which exists and
has always existed between the citizens
o. Oloverport and the farmers who sur
round US and contribute to our welfare,
is and has always been most friend
ly and pleasing and this you well know,
should DO the feeling between a town
and the surrounding country, for We are