Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-05
Difference Between Success and
Failure on the Farm the Same
as in Other Businesses
TEAM MoRTeAeED IS YEARS
Ono Man Who Paid Out Their Value in
Interest Several Times over-Labor
Scarcity on Farms Affecting Educa-
tionaI Advantages Of Boys and Girls
Wilson'S Rural Notes.
Special to Times-Republican.


Special to Times Republican.
Garner, Feb 5.-About a dozen years
ago young rural resident of this
for himself, purchased a team of four
year old horses, and not having the
necessary funds to pay for them, he
gave the owner mortgage on the ami
mails. The debt never was paid and
the now 16-year- colts still really
belong to the man who sold them. tho
he has been paid two or three hun
bred dollars as interest money for the
use of them The man who bought the
horses is said to possess as the result
of twelve years Of hard labor, just the
same amount of worldly wealth that
he did at the outset-nothing.
Relating this little incident the other
the failure of some men to attain sue
cess in farming. They begin without
anything, borrowing the money to buy
a farming outfit. This means either q
considerable outlay or else poor out
At. If everything goes as it is ex-
pected to do thru the first year or two
season, unexpectedly low prices for
NJ ar
Of bunch of hogs, or any of the
numerous disappointments always in
cident to farming, places the beginner
in a position that years of work are re-
quired to overcome. Looking up the
records Of the prosperous farmers of
today, who began penniless and sue
ceeded without aid in buying and pay
ing for a farm, 1T will be found that a
large portion of the number waited UNI
til they had earned the money to pay
for their farming outfit before begin
ming for themselves. Many of the
well-to- do tanners of the present time
will tell you that they spent several
years of their early manhood working
by the month as a farm hand and at
tribute their success in no small degree
10 Tile SApCllCItCC 4clllH
received without cost to themselves
while in the employ of other men who
also understood their business.
The man who gave utterance to this
idea also sees a tendency in his COM
one effect of the scarcity of
labor, that is SO keenly felt on the
farms all over the country, that is not
at all favorable to the future welfare
of the boys and girls that it affects.
Many young people who ought to be in
school are kept at home because of the
value of their services in the house
or in the fields. For the sake of the
few dollars their labor is worth to the
parents they are deprived of the oppor-
tunity Of obtaining the equipment so
important to possess in after years
The newspaper circulator has a good
opportunity Of observing the reading
of the people among whom
mon to find in some places middle aged
fathers themselves close. readers of
books and papers, while the sons are
to manhood apparently with
out acquiring any taste for reading,
this, too, in cases where the English
education of the parent was gained af-
ter the school period of his life had
passed and with other aid than the
discipline offorded by early work in
a foreign language.
Mr.. G. B. Groesbeck, who owns a
good farm on one of the local mail
routes, is employing rather unusual
method of schooling his son and daugh-
ter, who have completed the rural
school course. Mr.. Groesbeck's wild
owed mother makes her home with her
son, who rents small house in Gar
ner, and during the months when
school is in session the brother and sis
ter, with their grandmother for house,
keeper, take up their residence in town.
Supplies from the farm are brought
to them each week, the young people
are practically at home, and the only
extra expense are the items of tuition
and house rent.
Whatever the merits of the present
school law relating to the examination
Of teachers it is stimulating the rural
teacher to greater efforts to improve
her education. 1t is said that about so
per cent of the entire number of the
rural teachers of this section are al
ready engaged in, or contemplate, one
Of two methods to still further qualify
themselves for their work-attendance
at normal school or a correspondence
course. The latter plan is appealing to
4 large number because of its cheap
ness and that it permits of lucrative
while taking the course
One correspondence school is said to
have 100 men in the state at the pres
ent time calling on teachers at their
school houses, and according to the
statements of some Of the agents it
doesn't usually require more than ten
time for the parties concerned
to consummate a deal
C. E. WILSON.