The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-09-27
The Comforts Of Farm Life.
The Tri-State Farmer and Gardener.

Nc generally u IS only tne p4easan'
features of the professional and bust
ness mans life that are visible. The
cares and bardships are kept out OF
sight. But the observant and thought
full farmer knows that the life of a
professional man, business man or
mechanic is no more one of ease and
freedom from care than his own.
Ia Southern Ohio there lives a
farmer, now quite an old man, whom
we have known through his writings
for quarter of century, Waldo F.
Brown. He is an intelligent, thought
full man, a successful farmer and a
good writer. After giving the sub
ject thorough study, he chose farm
ing as a business, when ayoung man,
because be was convinced that it was
the most independent and comfort
able and least liable to failure OF any
business that be could 60 into. In a
recent letter of his, he shows that he
still thinks as favorably Of the busi-
ness as life calling.
To young man whose fancy is
caught by the visible attractions OF
town life and other callings, We par
t;cularly commend a careful consider
alton of what Mr.. Brown has to say
about this matter. In the first place
be says be has known large number
of farmers sons about half of whom
have gone to cities and towns, while
the other half have stayed on the
farm. OF those who have stayed on
the farm most of them have gotten
a start and are on fair way to own
a comfortable home and be indepen-
dent; on the other hand, the larger
portion of those who went to town
are living from hand to mouth, with
little or no prospects Of ever owning
q home.
1T takes pluck and industry" be
says, ''to become the owner of a
farm, but so it does to succeed in any
calling and the chances Of a moder-
ate competence are better than in al
most any other calling"
There is another feature to which
he call pointed attention, and it is a
thing of which every man who is
past the first flush of youth must
think very often; it is the fact that
ownership of a good farm gives to
old age and the decline Of life a far
better chance to take things easy
than other callings. The professional
man, the business man and the me-
chanic, unless they have grown rich,
will be pretty certain to have to 60
on working hard to make a living,
but the owner of a good farm can
deputize the work to others and only
supervise it, and take things easy as
age comes on. This is surely most
valuable consideration and one that
ought to have great weight in decid-
ing on life business.
There is one other consideration,
which is surely an important one to
every one who cares live honestly,
and that is the farmer is not sub
jected to that fierce competition that
business men are, which seems to
absolutely compel them to resort to
deception and fraud in order to make
living. Competition in commercial
life has become so strong that there
is not any line of business in which
there is not more or less fraud prac
tlced, and there is hardly an adver
tisement published that is not full OF
glaring falsehoods. Blu! good far.
mer has no occasion to lie or practice
fraud. In fact the business puts s
premium on honesty. The farmer
whose "fresh" eggs are fresh, whose
butter is sweet aud fragrant and frui
honestly packed, not ''deaconed" IL
the box or barrel, is the one who car
always sell for the best price anc
whose produce is in dem md. Sum
med up briefly, it can be truly saie
farming is the most honorable, inde
dependent and satisfactory bushes:
one can follow, and the same amoun
of energy, industry and study tha
would be required to make a success
in any other business will produce
more satisfactory results in this tha.
any other. While to the man wh'
loves nature, enjoys the planting an(
cultivation and making OF crop
grow, and handling Of live stock
there is nothing else that can com