Year: 1877

The WelIsburg MsEJ rcafEirmS It's re.
mark that young men are obliged TO
Leave Brooke county in order to make a
living, and says that William CaSuer,
the man who got we'll ofby cropping on
The shares, came very near running his
health and that Of his family during the
process. The logic Of this statement ia
that is not possible to get well of by
cropping on the shares in Brooke county
save by the loss OF ones health, II Conclu;
,ion that ID virtually an arrAignmen.
Of tho whole business Of farming on the
shares in this part Of the country. The
editor does MOTIVE presume, pretend to bs
very we'll poStedin agricultural matters.
Else he would know that there are two
WAYS to make money in that business as
IN most other employments. One is by
hard work and close economy, and moth.
ing else, and the other is by intelligent
attention to the opportunities presented
by the business. 1t is not always the
hardest working farmer who makes the
most money, but the one who combines
work with knowledge. OF course, at the
very outset, man must do the best he
can in farming, as in everything else, and
acquire his first capital by hard knocks.
This las necessity that is laid upon nearly
everybody in this hard working world
save the favored few who are born with
silver spoons in their mouths. 1t is not
only necessity but apparently safe.
guard, and is really the only safe channe
upon which most men can embark in the
business OF life. A man rises or sinks IN
his modus operandi Of pursuing Agricul.
lure Us he does in other pursuits. Cen
orally speaking, it is'the man who applies
his mind to the business who makes the
most and the easiest money by farming
The farmers who % years ago took to
sheep in advance OF those who persisted
in raising grain made more money and
made it easier. Those who since that
time have paid attention to stock raising
oi all kinds, especially the selection OF
the best breeds OF stock, have prosperet
more than these who have ignored thu,
manner Of farming, Ga the other hand
many farmers have made money by sheer
hard work and close listed economy who
have never applied their mental faculties
to their business. They have done this
at the expense Of everything like seli-im.
provement and proper consideration for
the culture Of their families. And 30 in
sll the other avenues OF business men
have done the same thing. 1t ia the man
and not the occupation that determines
this question Of methods Of bueincss.


Squire Atkinson Of Brooke county,
who yet lives at the village OF West
Alexander, was fair specimen oi an
Intelligent farmer who always made
money at the business, and yet wa'
among the best informed men oi the
country. lie raised a large family, CAV,
each member Of it fair education, nnl
a4 they branched of from the pNren
stem gave them good start in life, anl
yet still retained for himself an ample
competence. And he ia one OF many far
mers WHO have done the same thing.


When therefore the Meas assumes that
no man can startin lie asa cuIIivator O


tue soil in this part Of the country and
make good living, without doing 70 al
iAse1peuse OF his health, it argues in the
lace OF we'll known facts to the contrary
Because u man may choose to cxpost
himself unlntelligently or deprive him
sell avariciously and iniuriously in fol
lowing out the business, proves nothing
whatever, for misery men do that sort o
thing the world over in every variety OF
occupation.