Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-21
TO FARMER BOYS.
Hhey Should Read and Think Over the
Four Short Stories Reproduced Here
for Their Attention.

Ahey Should Read and Think Over the
Four Short Stories Reproduced Here
for Their Attention.
Here are four short stories culled
from an exchange that are worth re-
producing and should and will com
mand attention from intelligent
thoughtful readers. The exchange
groups them as follows:
Last fall the son of an Ohio farm
Or. having flushed college, went to the
Harvard law school. At the holidays
he came home and ANNOUNCED that ne
wasn't going back. Why not?' asked
She astonished family. Because re-
piled the boy, there are nearly o u
hundred young fellows studying law
at Harvard, and not one studying
farming. I'd like, if yousdon't care, to
go the Ohio State University Agricul-
tural School, His father didn't care.
On the contrary, he was so pleased
that he argued feebly against it, so
the boy wouldn't see how glad he was.
Not many years ago a dry goods
clerk began to think. He had made
good and expected, so far as he had
thought about it, to stay in the store.
He knew he had a good business head.
He noticed that a good many cement
workers were very ordinary workmen.
They had no special knowledge of &C.
ment and it's uses, and no special bus
mess ability. He put in the next six
months learning all he could about
the cement business. Then he gave
up his job, put on overalls and got a
sob laying sidewalks at a dollar and 4
half a day. He became a cement ex-
pert and went into business for him
self, used business principles and is
now one of the leading cement con-
.ractors of the country.
In a recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post. Forest Greasy tells of
tLe astonishing success of city men in
farming. He relates the story or a
successful Chicago business man who
applied business principles and a good
head to a 400-acre Illinois farm. His
netghbOrs laughed at first; now they
take off their hats to him for showing
them how to farm.
Some twenty years ago William N.
Scarf was graduated from college.
His father vas a farmer over at New
Castle. The young man had expected
50 take up his profession, to make
some use of his education as the
phrase goes. But his health failed
and he thought he would stay around
the farm for a year or so. His father
t3,ad been raising a superior variety of
Young Scarf began pro-
Tagating it. Son he was selling them
&c the neighbors and began to add
other lines. He recovered his health,
and during the process he had a Vi
sion. He stayed right on the farm
and gradually branched out. He has
been %annexing all the farms in the
1eighborhood, and has one of the lead
ing nurseries and seed establishments
of this country.
There are such chances lying all
around. There are all sorts of Occu-
cations tina tare far from being crowd
ed for men who have ability and good
business ense. The boy who tried
law is right; there are not enough fell
lows studying agriculture. There is 3
great opening for the young man who
understands scientific farming, for the
young man who bel ewes in himself
and is not afraid of work and use his
head" SCI
We know it is easy to give advice,
It is easy for the fellow who leaves
the farm to K out an uncertain eX-
istence as a lawyer or a doctor or an
editor to advise boys to stay on the
farm. 1t is not strange that the boy
&0n the farm, Is a rule, pays Little or no
regard to such advice. But the above
quotation contains not advice but sug-
suggestions.
Listen, Mr.. Farmer boy. The same
industry and attention that is requir-
ed to make a moderately successful
lawyer, doctor or editor, devoted to
careful farming will make a shining
success and a pot of money.
The boy with the stuff in him to
make a second class lawyer or doc
tor and with the industry to attain
that rank in either of those profess
sions can sport AN automobile and a
bank account at the same time If he
ztltdies scientific farming and devptes
1ier.