Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-04-02
LOOKING AFTER ONES OWN

As n general rule no man will succeed
well in business in which he has no in
terest-in which he does not feel a
pleisursble sense Of satisfaction when
the work was completed, whether the
work occupy the entire day or an hour.
Ii is doubtful il many succeed who
cannot give their own personal atten-
tion. Some men branch out in poultry,
In farming or stock breeding, who dur
ing business hours can give no attention
TO the matter In question, but are obliged
to delegate the matter Of care and atten-
ton to other hands. Whoever findeth a
wife, findeth a good thing, is the gist
of the scriptursl saying, but he who
finds man that will look carefully after
his employers interest as his own has
found treasure.
There is sense of satisfaction in
| looking after the stock one owns. |
know a young man who owned prom
ising young trotter. He loved a good
horse and enjoyed driving one. His
business interests demanded most Of his
time, and he placed his colt in a trainers
hands. do not know that the trainer
was not as capable and efficient as the
average man. | do not know that his
charges were excessive, but do know
that about the time the colt was ready
TO race her owner disposed OF her at u
sacrifice price, saying that he did not
care to keep horses for some other fel-
low to have all the fun, and l think his
sentiments are felt by many who do not,
perhaps, so summarily dispose of their
interests.
The boy who exhibits a pen of poul-
try he has fed and cared for, calf or a
colt that wins the blue ribbon, feels a joy,
a keen sense of satisfaction which the
man who has merely bought herd or Il
stud of horses can never feel. The one
knows his money has purchased stock
created by years of careful breeding, and
has made the animals fit by personal at
tention; and it is that one who feels the
true thrill of pleasure.
The stable boy who feels elsted when
his equine charge is winning, or shows
depression in his countensnce when the
horse is losing, has as much, perhaps
more, TO do with success or failure than
the man whose money has purchased or
the one whose brain has created. The
one had the mind to breed an animal
which could win, the other had capital to
provide all the necessary paraphernalia,
but lack Of interest and a neglect of the
animal would have made the value
of capital or the judgment of the breed
er as naught.
There are a good many who have
started in the poultry business. Some
have continued, and some have fallen by
the wayside. | believe there is no reason
Why any one may not succeed who will
give the requisite care and attention.
The man who thinks q hen is hen
and one as good as another has not paid
proper attention to details. He will be
sore when he fails to win prizes, and
will not be able to see why his egg
basket is not as well filled as that of his
ueighbOr.
have seen men who would call COW
a COW, and could not understand why
any lop-sided animal which they would
buy from a neighbor's yard would not
make the same amount and quality OF
butter as the thoroughbred Jersey whose
ability at the pail or the churn had been
brought about through years Of careful
breeding.
Happily such are few and far between.
The farmer is getting every year more
and more in touch with what the market
demands, and is striving with more in
tensity to supply that demand. He at
tends the meetings Of his grange, and
through the medium Of the agricultural
press. Let him attend as strictly TO his
business, let him look after his own, and
his successful future is assured.-Turf,
Farm and Home.