Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-09
COMMON SENSE ON THE FARM,

Under the heading, "What Farmers
Need Most the New York Tribune
Farmer has been running q long series of
interesting Articles from the pens Of
thinking ana observing farmers an over
the country. Tho following from John
u. Larkin Is worthy OF tlOughtful con-
sderauUu by the Utah farmer;
What farmers need most Is common
scnsc-lust plain common sense. What"
HCthinks ! hear: DO you mean to SAY
We haven't common geuse?" When uns
says he needs thing It seems 10 DO i'm.
Piled that he - deprived OF that pur-
tCulAr thing What | mean Is that II
Is the, most essential thing IN the bus'
moss Of farmer
would rather have common sense To
pilot me through this word than col,
icgo education without II. 1t Is men with
common sense that the world Is calling
1or II | had large farm that Locded
a manageL whom would | get 20 man
axe ~ why 4 farmer Wih common
sense, Of coarse II | were sure he mad
this I'D risk the rest, and ! would sleep
easy oi nights The man with common
sense Is armed with all tho necessary ac-
Cuutrcments for llfc's battle.
simultaneously with lnis writing my
mind Is ASKING Itself lh,so qucAtons,
what Is common sense How can 4 man
that has II not get i2 And, II It Is
natural git ana cannot be acquitted then
what benefit can be derived nom this a.
tlclc?
1t should be the aim Of all such art.
Giles as this 70 be instructive and prlcli.
cal, ana / viii say night here tnat COM
mon sense can bo acquired, Common
sense rs a comprehensive view of tho
practical things OF lie, and tho practical
things VI NE, the stern realities, are what
demand the attention uf brain and Drawn.
The world Is calling and ever has been
calling tor the man with common sense,
and such a man shall never be told %
go way back ana sIt down.
| have said that common sense cum be-
acquired, ana II can be- by continuous
thinking Every movement every object
every act every sound, rs worthy 90
thought, ana, II We only knew IT, each
bears "A message from tho mysterious
Creator
Farmers. nut on your thinking cans.
act ind, pendvntly; don't wait for The gov
ornment To loglslate money inlo your
pockets or success into your calling THIS
Is u world Of individual push There are
lOts ot chances and successes waiting for
the individual pusher
What farmer needs most a. right
thinking and proper application. start In
the right direction then keep pushing
II Is not So much the nature Of a busI.
ness that determines SUCCESS as In the
way II is managed,
once asked "a farmer In the presence
" another. his question, "Woll. what do
you think " THIS milk business Is there
any money I'm II on uOt2' "WCll " he said
mot In winter milk. IL takes all the win.
ter's milk bIll and part ~ tho summers
~ pay for feed considered this % be
an exaggerated assertion, sun / hal no
doubt ds 20 his having been a loser
then turned 10 the other farmer ana said
'Wcll, You have heard the verdict, what
tlIliIN NJ 90 ifAApll % Ia. fn
"A half dsconsoatc way u believe there
is q little money IN milk" just then an
other farmer who hll been standing
hard BY and had heard tho conycrsl-
ton. approached remarkng There Is
money In milk ana nay handbook says
30 Let us sum mp here, one farmer
SAID there was no money IN milk, ono
said he believed there was a little, an.
othor declared there was some, An three
were IN the same business had the same
opportunities ana the same advantages
one WAS making money, one thought no
was and one was not, II Is evident from
these facts that the man that made tho
money dl 80 by good management N
was the man. not the buNness-ul man
with the Individual push.
one NJ the things farmer needs most
IN Kindness 81 heart q sympathetic con.
sdcratIon NJ The natural rights of his
dumb dependents know that often vcX.
atious circumstances arise that make 1t
hard Tor him 20 conduct himself Ike O
seraph fOr Instance when COW shows
an apparent disposition 10 take a ride ON
hls hack aud use the milk pail Tor a stlr.
rup. / will admit that upOn occasions Of
thls kind l. myself have lost my temper
and made "a use OF the stool for which II
was not designed. When Say be gentle
and Kind. ! speak I'm general sonse.
Make Mnlncss a rule rather than an cX-
CpptiOn,
Some people viii say This man Ia
preaching morality, What has that to do