Arizona republican., 1906-03-13

nying it. The farmer, as much as any other man, earns his living by the work of his hand and by the sweat of his brow Farmers as a rule, are the hardest of our workers except the min- CTS. They literally bend to their labors and many of them bend altogether too much in the assumption that the sue . cess of the farm is dependent upon the quantity rather than upon the quality of their work
 If the average farmer works harder than does the business man, it is not always because he has to. but gener- ally because he thinks he must. I do not deny that there is much of drudg- cry in farm labor-there is. So is there in almost any other calling or work But the excess of drudgery is usually the fruit of the drudge, not of the work itself. So far as the long farm hours are concerned, they are no longer than those required of the majority of men in business for themselves and of members of all professions. The farm CT has as much time on his hands and generally more, than does the city bus mess or professional man. It may seem to him that he works longer, but he does not As a matter of fact the chances are that he works fewer hours than does his city neighbor.
 Lack of success in farming, unless the farm be unmistakably barren, gen orally comes from lack of intelligent application. Altogether too many farm CTS Imagine that success is wholly due to hard and labOrious labor. Labor is necessary to any successful result. but the labor in which the mind acts the part of partner is the kind which pays md NK-hi hard as farming is, and as small as is the compensation it usually brings. it gives the farmer more than is receiv- ed by the average city dweller, more. even. of actual dollars and cents. The average city clerk at the end of a year has less money, and less ready money, than has the farmer. and the chances are that the city man has worked harder altogether he may have enjoyed stated holidays and vacations
 Although the average city business man may accumulate more money than the farmer can possibly gain under the most favorable circumstances, he paws a greater penalty for what he obtains; and in the majority of cases is worse off than is the farmer. If the far mer treated his work as he should, and applied to it the intelligence that is given to other trades. he would re- duce the drudgery to a minimum, and ready money would not be a stranger to him.
 Nearly all farmers make a living. Comparatively few, of course, grow rich from the proceeds of the farm; but more than half of the farmers. whether located on the rocky hills of Maine or on the rapidly producing western soil, not only make expenses, but are able to save something every year.
 The farmer is seldom found in the poor house. From farmers children have sprung the majority of our great men. both of business and of the pro- fessiOns.
 Many a man. who does not know anything about it, and therefore speaks wwith positiveness, claims that the farmers life is narrower than all oth- CTS, and that the farmer has-IittIe op- portunity to broaden his mind with things which go to make for progress and to better civilization. As a matter of fact, the farmer, unless his is locat- ed miles from the heart of progress. has a better opportunity to learn what he should know than has the ar titicially-living cityite, whose broad ness consists, not so much of the good things, but to an alarming extent of the bad things of life.
 The city clerk or city business man, working in a block and housed in a flat, does not have one-half as much opportunity to progress, in the truest sense of the word. as does the farmer on a fairly fertile farm, working as his own master on his own property.
 fg l al nf haY fG independent. If his farm is good for much, he knows he can make it give him everything he actually needs.
 The farm is the only self-support- ing business on earth.
 The successful farmer is a man of education, although he may not have been book taught. He is well equipped so far as general knowledge is con cerned and further, he is a man of business.
 With the modern periodicals and the distribution of every class of reading matter, the farmer has every opportu- nity for mental development. The edu- cation of the progressive farmer is su- perior to that of the rank and file oi metropolitan men Of wealth.
 There always will be some poor and half-starved men among farmers, but tfllS class IS Tar less prominent upOf the farm than in the marts of busi- ness; and there are ten times more impecunious city workers than there are farmers in actual want. But right here let it be said that even the poor est farmers are better off than the av- craze strugglers of a great city. The farmer has a chance to grow. The city man may or may not have that oppor- tunity.
 It is time for the farm to be digni. fled, yes, even glorified. The trutf about the farm should be told. Th' business or profession of farming should be recognized for what it de serves. The farm always has been is, and always will be, the only trade or business absolutely indispensable. Should the farm boy remain upor the farm? Upon general principles, say, yes. There are exceptions. Ther' are many boys who have no business to stay upon the farm, because the! are destined for something not neces-