Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-02-08
OUR FARMERS.
THE VALUE OF ENTERPRISE.


man of enterprise" He was an en-
terprising merchant, or manufacturer,
or mechanic, or contractor. He had
push and the spirit of progress In
him. He saw where things could be
done, and went ahead and did them.
he amassed wealth by his enterprise,
but more than wealth, he grew to a
goodly stature, in knowledge, IN
courage, in judgment, in his own self
respect and the respect of the men
about him. Such men are called
epterprising.
Why should We not hear it said OF
farmers more than we do? Really,
there is no place on earth where
man can win distinction among men
in a more marked degree than on the
| farm.
There are so few farmers of enter
prise, az compared with the whole,
that the contrast shines with a
brightness that compels praise and
constant remark.
|
lack of enterprise among farmers,
except the dry rot of conservatism
and the want of proper estimate or
the value of a bright, we'll stored
mind. Here and there are shining
examples of enterprising farmers,
but they are too few and far between.
This lack of enterprise has obtained
80 largely among the great mass OF
Anne ricsn farmers, that even the
teachers of the common schools are
affected by it. When they want to
stir boys mind to greater effort IN
his books, they talk to him of the
great value of education that he may
ssrise in the aUorld," not AS a farmer,
but as a lawyer, or manufacturer, or
merchant. The examples they cite or
men who have won distinction are
rarely if ever, drawn from the ranks
of agriculture, because, no douot'
there is 80 little ambition among
farmers to win distinction.
The effect of all this is to drive
bright enterprising boys away from
the farms.
I There is a grand field in agriculture
for the exercise of ambition and the
spirit of true enterprise.
, It is that spirit that leads men tc
have we'll ordered buildings, neat
= TASTY homes and grounds, we'll tillee
Y fields, good fences and as many of the
$ comforts of life for themselves, theil
]. wives and children as they can bring
about them,
It is that spirit that leads men GU
!, to buy books and papers that il
! turn will lead them out to I
broader fairer view of what goot
. farming means.
y 1t is many times more enterpisinl
=. to save up money to buy good reg
: istered animal that will improve thu
:; farm stock, than it is to lend it out OF
e note and mortgage. There are hun
, dreds of ways farmer can show hi
: spirit of enterprise. But he mus
keep in touch with the ideas an
o work of the men of that class. W
:. know of farmers who are just nov
waking up to the value of silo, or t
better fashioned stables, or to the us
. of commercial fertile ers, or to i'm
/; proved live stock. or to many othe
+ good things that true spirit of enter
i prise should have led them to lon
3 ago.
- dered them so much as it was the lac
. of progressive ambition in their oW
~ business. We know of tena1
farmer who does not own farm, 81
\; because he has ente rprise and pro
er gressive ideas, he has built up a fir
Il herd of registered cattle. He says:t
-. can hire good farm for some tin
yet, cheaper than be can own on
et He can have his pick of the best farm
,cr for miles around, because he has ii
spirit of enterprise.
1T. "Unto him that hath shall be given
-or Exchange
~. The Young Calf.
OPP Ny practice is to let the calf rema
-. with the mother day or two accor
,,' ing to the strength of the calf and
ID state of the cows udder. If int1ame
ps' the sucking of the calf is the be
remedy. When the calf is tax
er. away, it is put in a warm dry plat
We. and fed three times a day with war
,ch new milk, two quarts for feed, t'
vi quarts Of the morning milk being {
sa aside, the cream stirred in, a
warmed at noon. When the calf
ear two or three weeks old begin to fe
ent r,orr, suaat skim milk never allo