The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-29
RUYING OR RENTING A FARM.

In doesn't make any difference
whether a man has small means or
can pay cash, the best policy is to
buy. Every farmer is ambitious. He
wants to own a farm-to have some
place to call home, even if it is only
forty acres. The expenses are about
equal, buying or renting. The rent
amounts to as much, and often more,
than the taxes, interest and repairs.
The renter has more money to put
into stock, but his possessions must
accommodate themselves to the farm
he rents, and this is often inconve-
nient. Or he must build extra fence,
which is expensive, as the fence is
useless when he moves elsewhere.
Usually the renter exchanges crops
and stock for money when he moves,
which is every year or two. Of
course he puts the money in the bank
and is going to save it until he can
pay cash for farm. During the year
he sees something that he is very
anxious to own, and as the money is
easy to get, it goes. Of course he is
going to have better crop this year,
and will make more money on his
hogs, and can easily replace the
money, and more, too. 1t is just as
easy to use it all as it is to use a
little, and before the end of the year
it is all gone.
The buyer cannot do this. When
he sells crop, or bunch of hogs,
and pays the money on a farm, it is
there to stay. He must deny him
self many things, but he who satisfies
every want will not have his labors
crowned with success. Unceasing
toll is the parent of success. It only
takes about half the year to raise the
crop. During the other half the rent
er does not do enough to pay his ex-
penses. He makes as much as any
farmer while he works, but the buyer
works while the renter is idle. The
weeds need cutting, the fences need
fixing, the fertilizers need scattering,
the bitches need repairing, and many
other things need to be done, so that
the buyer is busy the entire year.
Perhaps he has less amusement, but
amusement is expensive.
A farm should have good orchard
and garden of shrubbery. Neither
trees nor shrubs are costly, but the
renter does not put out new ones, nor
take care of those already on the
farm. The renter leads an aimless,
unsettled life. He has no definite
aim in view, and works in haphaz-
ard, hit or miss fashion, and it usu-
ally turns out miss. The buyer
knows Just what he has to do, and
each day brings him nearer the goal
of his ambition. Half of the secret
of success lies in having a definite
aim and the othes half in unceasing
toil.-G. L. johnson, in Mew York
Tribune.
Two WOMEN, one of whom carried
baby, entered a furnishing establish
ment and asked to look at some car
pets. 1t was warm, muggy day.
The salesman showed roll after roll,
until he was bathed in perspiration.
At last one of the women asked the
other if she did not think it was time
to go. "Not quite" was the answer
of her companion and then in an un-
dertone she added: Baby likes to
see him roll them out and it isn't
time for the train yet"
'BEFoRE OUR marriage I used to
call her my lily why so?"
Because she 'toiled not, neither did
she spin.'" "And has she changed
any?" "Slightly. Now she tolls
not, but she spins. You see, I bought
her a bicvcle. -