The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-11
MAKING A FARM PAY
ADVICE TO THOSE WHO FEEL THE
STRESS OF CITY LIFE.

/ AMU EuEhNlOM FAAA 0NN NANhN a AHANAAAN
on a Farms" Discussed Out Of Per
sonaI Experience-Never So Many OPP
portunities in the Country - New.
Can one make a living on a farm~
Over and over again this question
comes to me. l answer, Yes for
many people do"
Would you advise me 10 60 ca a
farm?" This question, In one form or
another, comes TO every teacher in an
agricultural college II Is a common
question in the East for people are he
| ginning to feel the stress and unrest Of
city life. / cannot answer the ques-
tion for It is a matter of personality.
This. however. is the first advice
that I can give the person who thinks
Of leaving the city to become a farmer
do not consider the proposition for a
moment unless your ideal is individual
istic You are to depend on yourself
You are to make your own way. You
are to live your own life. You must
be resourceful
My second advice is this-be sure
you love the country and everything
there is in it. BE sure that you do not
go with the feeling that you are giving
up the pleasures Of life. Be sure that
dandeliOn is worth as much as a
theatre You are 10 be company for
yourself The birds will sing as no
opera singer ever sang. The flowers
will bloom in the meadows The
brooks will laugh on the pebbles and
sleep under the quiet banks. The
white clouds viii float in the sweet
blue air. Be sure that your heart Is
ripe before you move to the country.
| hope that you have a wife. II she
thinks as you do about the country, the
problem is half solved II her heart
is welded to the city, stay where you
are hope you have children-and
what healthy. natural child under
twelve years Of age would not love
the country?
But you viii not need to give up
your connection with the world just
because you move on farm. You will
have a few books on farming and on
nature. Perhaps you will read less.
but you will think more. You will
have a few periodicals.. You viii re-
ceive the experiment station bulletins.
You viii be interested In the village
library and in the school. You will
have opportunity 10 hear lectures.
Now and then You will go 10 the city.
and you will enjoy II more for seeing
it less. The theatre viii mean more
to you because you do not go too Of
ten. You will find other and more sat
isfying and less expensive entertain-
ment. II 1t is not IN your nature 10
find such entertainment. do not leave
the city.
But can / make money enough TO |
be comfortabley Yesterday l ad-
dressed an audience Of pupils ia whose |
minds this question was uppermost.
IF you were an 10 be merchants" |
said. Il should expect most OF you TO |
fail. If you We're all 10 be lawyers.
many Of you would have no clients.
If you were all to be doctors. some OF
you would have no patients Yet
expect that every one Of you viii sue.
eeed, but it viii be because each OF
you does something which he Is fitted
TO do" Many men succeed at farming
and many fail. The difference lies in
the farmer. The Individual who fails
in the city drops into some other mans
business and becomes cog. The
farmer VINO fails IS seen and known
Of men, but eventually he, too, be-
comes a cog
You will not need to get as much
money in the country as you do In the
city, because you win raise half or
more Of your living. and your enter
tainment bills will be less. At the
end Of every year you should be able
10 put away a little extra money. You
will have the satisfaction of knowing
that every stroke cf work that you do
and every improvement that you make
adds 70 your capital stock you are
building a home sor yourself and fam.
ly at the same time that you are earn
ing a living, but In the city you are
turned out Of doors when you can no
Ongor work
Ny third advice is this-be sure that
Tou have good executive ability and !
hat you viii be content with moder.
tie financial returns. Some men make
ortunes on farms. but they usually
lave relatively large investment in the
business. and they have the power OF
handling men aud Of making money
rom their labor. as well as the power
# growing and handling crops These
ne men who would make money from
buttons. or shoes. or any other busi- J
less They are business men. ndn- !
.reds Of my farmer friends are we'll {
o-do. They are free OF debt. have \
omfortablc and personal homes. have 3
he legitimate comforts Of life. drive
heir own horses and are beholden to Z
% man. These are the typical farmers
hey are not "clod-hoppers They are !
lot pessimists. They are well fed and 4
veil clothed They know what Is .
'oing On IN the world. They read. Z
hey ask more direct and pointed
uoefionq than an the nvunrfntns4F ata ] :