Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-31
HOW OBSERVING FARMERS WIN SUCCESS

always sell for enough to pay their standing bills. When this happens there is a stringency in the domestic money market that is felt not only in the purse strings but in the waist bands of all concerned.
 MT. Davenport raises cotton like his neighbors, but he doesn't stop there. He also raises corn, and wheat, and oats, and potatoes, and a little rice, and some cattle, and a few sheep, and dozen or two hogs, and a lot of other truck. He makes the wastes of one crop feed another. He has something to sell the whole year round When his neighbors are crawling into town to beg for credit on some flour and pork he's driving in to deposit a little more money at his bank-and is eat ing his own home produced flour and pork. He has only about 200 acres of land, but it is his favorite boast that he and his whole family can live in comfort for years on end from the products raised on his farm alone.
 He hasn't reVoiutionized agriculture; he hasn't made a millionaire of him. self; he doesn't have to have an office and a set of clerks to look after his business-but in the midst of a neigh borhood of semi failures, his farm is a success and he's comfortable and happy, with all his prospective needs amply supplied and fund in bank tn serve as insurance and reserve in case of a series of lean years or an G1ex- pected call.
 One of these two farmers attained the success which comes with great wealth--won it out of the very jaws of defeat, because he used his brains to invent methods for meeting new conditions. The very club the enemy was using to bludgeon him with, he wrested from that enemy's hand and made 8 tool to achieve success for himself. The other man has won for himself and his family competence and well-being by likewise using his brains. Under the conditions in which he found himself, complete dependence on single crop meant virtual serf- dom and constant dwelling on the per ilous edge of want So he diversified his interests widely enough to obviate all reasonable chances of entire fail- ure He made hls farm self support ing and quite independent. If meat was so high that common folks couldn't afford to buy it, he didn [ need to buy, he killed and ate his own. It mattered little to him what the price of flour was; he raised his own wheat and ground it in his own mill. He didn't have to sell his cotton the minute it was picked to get money to live on. If it was unproftably low he kept it, and sold something else which was high.
 Now, neither South Dakota farnina conditions nor Texas farming condi- tions are the same as Connecticut farming conditions. Everyone of us farmers has his own fight to make on ha al nF h hfR F1 got to meet our enemies as they come at us, not as they come at some other fellow, somewhere else. We can't win out by blindly initiating the other mans tactics. But there's a grand strategy in war which involves gen. eral principles and governs the adop- ton or rejection of particular tactics.
 A smart epigran1 which 1 recently saw in @ Wall street journal reads: The art of rolling up wealth begins with the shirt sleeves" That sound S nings of success, whether it be success in accommodating wealth or in som other worthier form, are in the gray matter inside your head. Campbeirs problem of how to make wheat grow without rain he solved by the use of his brains. Davenport's problem of how to make farm pay in a state where farming was often little better than slavery to the cotton exchange he solved by using his brains. One old farmer said to me. once: "Yes. l kin work and I do'-and the horny cailouses on his palms testified that he spake truth-"but I think I ac- cOmplish more sometimes, by jest set tin on the fence for an hour or two and whittlin'." He didn't mean mere ly whiting ainless shavings off a pine stick, but whiting out ideas and ex- pedients to meet emergencies.
 The old idea was that the fool of the family was good enough to make farmer of. Humph, I guess not-not in these latter days. anyway. Better send him to the legisls ture where he'u be more use and do less damage Sue cess in farming depends first of all on the way farmers use the think stuff God providently put under their skulls. That comes first of all The next thing in order is the rolling m of the shirt-sleeves. It won't work to reverse the order. More farms are failures from lack of applied brains than from lack of applied fertilizer,
 Of course. this doesn't mean you and me. We are exceptions. But just think over your neighbors. please, and see If you don't agree with me!
 THE FARMER 
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