The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-03
= X PAINS.
Doing SO Means Saving OF Many Dol
lars BY the Farmers.

y recent article published in the
Agricultural Outlook by DR.. T. y. Car
yer, OF Washington, is Of much interest
and portions of the article are quoted.
AS one travels over the county it il
easy TO see that a great many Of tho
farmers are not taking trouble TO do
the Things which they know ought to
De done and which if carried out
would amount to many dollars, income
and less abor. 1t says in part:
There is a story of an aged savag
who, after having lived in civilized
communities most of his life, return
ed in his old & 10 his native tribe
saying that he had trie d civilization
for 40 years and it wasn't worth the
trouble. Much of the philosophy OF
civilization is summed UP in that re-
mark. Civilization consists largely in
taking trouble. Genius. in the indi-
Vldual, has been said to consist in the
capacity for taking infinite pains in
ones work. 1t is this capacity which
marks the superior race as VOL as the
superior individual. They who find
The taking of pains too hurdensome
to be borne will naturally decide that
civilization is not worth the CUB
They who do not find il ve~y burden
some to take pains will naturally de-
eide that civilization is worth the
trouble, and will therefore become
civilized~
This principle applies to every stage
of civilization and progress. The
greatest advancement is made b.
those who are capable of taking
greatest pains. 1t applies especially
to agricultural progress. 1T is more
trouble to select than not to select
seed, and to select it in the field than
in the bin. 1t is more trouble to test
COWS than not to test them, to keep
accounts than not to keep them, to
diversity or rotate crops than not to
diversity or rotate, to mix fertilizers
intelligently tina to buy them already
mixed, to cooperate with ones pig
headed neighbors, especially if one Is
himself a little pig-headed, than to go
1t alone. 1t is also more profitable.
In all these and a multitude Of other
cases it is found that it pays to take
trouble
There is probably no part Of the
farmers business where his needs to
be SO much emphasized rs in his buy
trouble to buy all ones supplies at
retail as they are needed han to plan
ahead and buy at wholesale, and to
sell ones products at wholesale and
in bulk to the nearest buyer than 10
work out q better marketing scheme,
that this practice of buying every
thing at retail and selling everything
at wholesale has become almost uni
verSal. 1t takes a rich soil. or very
hard work on the farmers part, or
both, to make mp the losses resulting
from this system. The farmer il be
coming, almost in the same sense ~
the manufacturer. a buyer a raw ma
terial such as fertilizers, seeds. feeds.
machinery, livestock, etc. What man
u~facturer would expect to prosper. Il
he depended upOn the retail stores to
supply him with his raw materials as
they were needed and at retail prices?
How many manufacturers would ex-
pect to prosper ii they did not have
selling agencies but waited for buyers
to come around and offer to buy their
! products after they were finished
When one once gets accustomed to
taking pains it ceases TO BE- painful to
keep on. It is only the beginning
from which we shrink. When n
| gets into the habit of keeping &C
counts, of rotating and diversifying
crops. of making the farm feed the
family and running cooperative en-
terprises. il is not half as much trouble
as it was feared that it would be. The
total test of a mans quality is his
ability to begin taking pains.