The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-05-20
BACK TO THE FARM PROBLEM
plrofessor Bailey Says Man Probably
VIII Find It Most Satisfying
Business If Location Good.

VI All the problems that confront
humanity, none has received more at
tenatlHon, perhaps, than that involving
sae wisdom Of the movement, or aglta-
| lion, TO encourage men of the city to
| 20 BACK to the hand for a living. It
lsls q question that will not be put
| Gown. It hobs up every day, and
With especial frequency in the agri-
| cultural college, where boys and girls
are making out the programs for the
future. It is hard to answer, too, be-
| cause no two men are likely to go at
q task in the same way. One city man
might make good and another, In the
next field, fail miserably. It Is big,
big problem
Some OF the most successful coun-
trymen know were city folk, and
many Of the most disastrous failures
We're also city folk" says Prof. LIB
erty Il. Bailey of Cornell, in Country
| Life in America IF my reader knows
| farming and Is country-minded, he
may go on a farm with assurance, II
| he is not too old and If he has suffi-
/ Gent capital. He probably will find It
a most satisfying business, II he Sc
cures good location. He must ex-
peet many discouragements, for the
/ things that can happen on farm are
/ beyond all imagination, particularly it
the place Is left more or less In the
Wells will go dry; pigs viii lie down
i and give up the ghost; eggs will re-
/ fuse to hatch; sheep will have them
1 selves killed by dogs; plows will go
i to smash horses will acquire the
i heaves or run nails into their feet;
i trees will infest themselves with San
4 jose scale; the cellar will freeze and
4 the roof will leak; sickness will In
wade the hired mans family; and no
4 end of tools and things will take theH-
13salves into parts unknown or vanish
IJnto thin air; and the perplexity OF
Il 1t rs that the books and the period
icals do not give recipes for all these
torments and troubles. My city en-
4 thusiast will reply that the unex,
4 pected happens in town as well as In
country; l know 1t, but want him
7 also to understand that 1t happens in
country as well as in town, and that
he must lay by a capital stock OF
patience, good temper, and ready
money.
81 care nothing where the farmer Is
born-Whether In city or in the coun-
4. try or on the sea-if only he is really
a farmer To be really farmer Is TO
4 be farm-minded and to know the bust.
ness, and the way to learn to be
4 farmer Is to practice it, and while
a practicing 1t to call to his aid all good
advice in books and otherwise. He
y should learn the business from good
farmer, or IL he has the time and
4 money to spend, he may teach him.
i self, but he is likely then to have q
q very long course of study and very
Incompetent teacher. The more school.
. ing he has particularly in an agri.
cultural institution-the sooner and
the more fundamentally should he
learn, and the better should be his
results; but he must really learn how
nevertheless One can never run 9
\ farm by admitting it and by reading
!; about 1t. Nothing Is easier than te
/ figure a profit on a paper farm, one
has only to choose a product thai
yields heavily and sells for high
!, price, then estimate the cost OF cheaI
land, and the thing Is done"