ESTABLISHED. PAGES WEEKLY • VOL. XXI., No. 47.1863.} TOPEKA, 1883. ,KANSAS, NOVE:MBER 21, {SIXTEEN.,RICE. 81.50 A YEAR. sue their Going Out of the Business. customery foolish course in run­ that it must look pretty dark to such a man' mention more farmers�who have�:made for­ their mills and and we would The FARMER has been interested in cau­ ning night daY"evenif they advise such to get rid of part tunes. It would be better worth our while have to import wool to do it, until the mar­ of their and a of tioning sheep men against rashness in going flocks, adopt svstem mixed to consider how they have succeeded and ket groans with and then shut at all times when such a course out of the business. Men ought not to be woolens, husbandry why others do not. A man's hands were down. There is certainly more profit in a would seem to be Ru- reckless in anything; and when one is well judicious.-Western given him to work with, doubt; but these . n? steady business .han there is in such a spas­ ral. situated for conducting any kind of business are merely the tools; a head and brain were modic business. The as at that has and business present furnished to the hands. With 'the bottom. understands it, and is Profitable guide conducted is like the man who gorges him­ Agrioulture. - not compelled to change, always runs great hands alone a man makes a bare subsistence. self with one meal a He eats about It is frequently said that no man ever risk in leaving what he knows how to handle day. just A dollar, 'by universal consent, has been as much as he would at three. but he can't made a fortune by agriculture. The term and goes to something that is new to him. considered as the equivalent of one day's half assimilate what he and his health fortune is rather indefinite, as it bears a rela­ The following, taken from the Western eats, common unskilled labor. Brain work has will finally break down. We think that tion to a person's desires rather to his re­ Rural, so nearly expresses our views that we no limit to its value. It can direct common is little doubt that our manufacturers quirements. For when one begins to accu­ quote it. It savs: th.ere unskUled labor, a hundred pairs of hands at Will sufficient common sense in their mulate his views of what may be satisfacto­ yet get once, or horse or or Some of our friends III Ohio have labor, steam, water sheep to confine themselves with the increase of Mads, principally to ry competence enlarge and make one become disgusted with low and threa­ power, dollar's worth worth prices, home and their ma- his aecumulatlons. At one time of his life produced wool, keep ten or hundred in The' mne or ten to give up Don't do ,a effect; sheep husbandry. ' or would be suffi­ chinery running all the time. $5,000 $10,000 consldered dollars the is our advice, a ninety multiplied by' quantity it, If farmer is well situated but when this has been made and In of the effect of' tariff cient, the value of the brain for the business of hus­ speaking legisla­ gives day's work and conducting sheep saved there has been such a in the tion, it will of course be said that a low tariff change as there is for brain work he is a foolish man to be ample scope upon bandry, very driven manner of life as to make this sum the of manufactured wholly the it is the use of out of business a encourages importation farm, only by it, and not by temporary depres­ and it is doubled and trebled the. woolen goods. To a certain extent this is inadequate, hard work that fortunes are made sion of If we this rule in all by alone, prices. adopt and multiplied by ten, and yet it is not true. But it must not be forgotten that if ln. agriculture. Moreover, let us consider our farming operations we lipall soon cease At the when the tariff on such was five dollars a enough. beginning, however, how mere hand on to be There is DD !toods work pays better the .better general a man's of this.matter are' he fa_rmers. there would be Americans to views modest, farm than in other No rule of hfe than to stick, I f will yard, enough employments, farm­ anybody a sum the interest of which wear them to make a figures up upon ers faU or become or take the trouble to the results of heavy competition bankrupt, become em­ investigate he can live in his usual manner without with goods of domestic manufacture. Nine barrassed by debts through thei� farm work. changing business, and running after imme­ work and his leisure in comfort. This people out of ten, who have more enjoy If mere hand labor is so diate will find a worse condition money then, productive iii gains, they is what he considers a fortune. than wear Perhaps brain work and of disaster than can brains, imported goods. Why, agriculture; skill will be be attributed to any to be considered the they do not know' or if thev $10,000 $20,000 might and other one caase. If knows precisely, do, equally productive, with economyaud anybody any lowest limit of what a farmer con­ they never tell. Ask them their reason for might careful of one's .ror­ considerable number of men who have ever husbanding Income, sider as a fortune or a Then so and will that wear competence. turnes be made in as made a, success of life doing, they reply they may agriculture well by repeatedlv chang­ we ask how many farmers have accu­ better or are finer. As to lastmg qualities it might as in other Y. T£mes. ing; from location to location or from busl­ ways.-N. this sum in the course of an ordlna- �........ --- not true that are su­ mulated , strictly nesii' to have the of foreign goods business, they advantage of let us 20 Tak­ to those of American., manufacture. 1'y. .period time, say years. 001. W. S. Wdte's Short-horn Sale. us. This unsettled disposition is -a cause of 'J¥lrior of A coat made of domestic will as a ing a.�:>yiew, acquaintances among much of our labor troubles. are goods SpeCial KANSAS F.�RMEB. Men seek­ one hazard the state­ eorrespondeuee ruie wear cent. better than the av­ farmers, Inight safely to better their condition in in fifty per On his farm near Col. W. ing ways which ment that there are more farmers who are in Sabetha"Kansas, erage that is made of foreign goods. If the chances, are greatly' against them. A ,coat S. White sold a draft of Short-horns from does not believe it. But the possession of this amount of properry is the anyone it, try sup­ the Oakland herd. Col. J. was auc­ temporary gain temptatlon- which and who could afford to retire from busi­ yr. Judy, pose it were true that do wear draws out of a of foreign.goods tioneer and Chas. Clarkson acted as. secre­ them place employment ness at than are better. They cost at least and rest ease there busiuess in which in the run twenty-five pe On account of the long they would be like­ and men who �ry. blustering weather. cent. more and more than that. men, merchants, professional to better than will do generally the attendance was small, and the ly they probably by are able to do the at 50 of prices �o As to fineness American are same, years age. or it draws them of a goods plenty realized were not as large as usual, ehanglng, out business There are of farmers who are although good for The truth is that thousands which in the run Will as enough anybody. they were good for the quality of the cattle long average well worth and a many whose the vast who are $100,000 each, great majority eternally rumag­ offered. female was as any other business. As so many times that while The hi,hest priced for their wealth exceeds large sum, the said The Rural and if ing among importations clothes, $180, for Red," a by Stockman, the for are "Daisy "Sylvia" cow, pur­ are influenced by the wish to get something opportunities making money really sheep business of this country does not pay chased by A. A. Gordon, Holton, Kas. The because it is greater among farmers who have good bus­ for to foreign, simply toreian, Any­ for bulls were $210 each years together many years come, what iness habits than are other highest prices paid that comes across they among any thing the ocean, from a "Lord a can we give to the promises of any is Lorne," Highthorn bull, bought by weight roll of cloth to Oscar commands industries. The trouble not that the op­ bualnesa? The is the of Wilde, w. H. and "Cherub a sheep only product are but rather the Sucra, Bly," their and if can portunlties wanting, S�ith, the adoration; anybody suggest Ehzabeth" sold to J. F. Pom­ fann-among our standard products­ shrewdness and tact to seize and the "Lady bull, a of giving. these an artificial them, whose does not the plan people eroy, Holton. Six bulls supply equal legitimate to turn them to account.