The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-08-19
GET RURAL LIFE
OUT OF YOUR HEAD
The Business Doctor Says the
Farmer Is Poorest Paid Man
In the World

Tired Of the eternal grind, eh? Sick
OF the continuous treadmill of bust !.
ness?' said the Business Doctor to the
young man.
$50. ii you had little money, you
would go out into the country and buy
farm and become absolutely inde-
pendent of every one and be capitalist
in small way and get away from this
eternal grind of work? Young man,
you make me smile!
$50 you don't think a farmer has to
work. eh?"
"Go out and try it once Rise some
morning at the first call of the chanti-
cleer. feed six horses, milk half dozen
cows. wake up and water the harrow,
manicure the chickens, eat your break.
fast by candlelight, take a constitution
al behind pair of frowsy, unesthetic
mules. with pair of plow handles in
your fore feet and greasy rein around
your sun.tanned neck, and then at sun.
down come home aud do chores by the
light Of the silvery moon, aud you will
look back on this job as Turk dreams
OF an houri-flled paradise!
From dollars nd.cents stand point,
the farmer is the poorest paid man in
the world. Statistics show that he
doesn't make as much as his own hired
man, who gets the princely stipend of
s25 per month. One bulletin from the
Agricultural Department says:
"'It appears that If you allow a
farmer interest on the capital he has
invested, he earns substantially no
wages; on the other hand, if you allow
him no interest. he receives $22 61 per
month as wages
"There you arel Get into the game
my boy. II you want to be a gentle
man aud work just for the fun of it.
you may draw interest at five per cent
on the money you have invested ia land
aud tools to till it; but if you want to
be laboring man and deny yourself
the pleasure of living on your money.
you will receive the munificent sum of
S22 81 per MONTH
"Some more statistics on the plan of
getting back to nature. The American
Farmers say: "A young man on farm
may incur an interest bearing debt on
oue.half the land he tills and expect to
pay it off by the time he is 80 and retire
by the time he is CO.
THAT is not a particularly fine pros
pect, when we recall that 81 per cent
Of farmers die before they are %. 81 per
cent before they are As and Sc per cent
under 65. This is from the 1900 census,
and as book and life insurance solicitors
are on the increase. the average may be
worse by this timel
snow. if only IA per cent OF these
young farmers who 90 into debt for
one. half their land may expect to spend
their old days on the front stoop and at
the village store at ease, how long will
a fellow have to live who goes into debt
for all his land before he can hope to
retire?
"If you will figure it out, you will
find the winner under this handicap
will reach an age that will make the
celebrated Mr.. Methuselah seem an in
fant in arms in comparison. Ia the
story papers you read of the farmer
scooting around the country in $4,000
buzz wagon or behind $1,000 trotter.
but in real life he spends most OF his
time clubbing a mule across stony
hillside of Poverty rather than driving
coach and four down the pike of
Prosperity"
Better keep your mind on your busi'
ness, son, and get this rural life out OF
your head. Lots of men with $4,000 a
year income have gone broke trying to
run farm, just as Bradstreet's reports
show that 30 per cent of the farmers
who 60 into business life make failures.
You, of course. don't know much about
this business game. or you would not
be dissatisfied with it; but you know
more Of this than you do farming. and
should advise you to cut out these
rural aircastles and 60 to work. Roe
Fulkerson in Sacramento Bee.