HOW IS THE FARMER WITH
OUT MONEY TO GET A START?
He Must Practice Industry and
□conomy, Study Mis Work and
Practice Qood Farming Methods
—he Should Also Buy a Home
of His Own as Soon He Pos
sibly Can.
"Yes." we can imagine some
reader saying, "it is true enough
what you say about the disad
vantages of working with one
horse and inefficient equpment,
and about the little profit to be
made from tending poor land. I
believe all this, too. But, how
am I, with a small, poor farm,
or perhaps no farm at all, with
only one mule, with poor equip
ment, with a family to support,
with no surplus capital, to get
ahead: what can I do to make the
money I must have to get the
things I need?"
This is a prefectly proper ques
tion to ask—even if it is not the
sort of question anyone can
answer with much precision.
There are a great many ques
tions to which no confident
answer can be given, and often
they are questions like this one,
of vital importance. Because we
cannot from our uwn knowledge
tell the inquirer just what to do,
we are not excused, however,
from trying to help him find out
for himself what he ought to do.
In the first place, we feel safe
in saying that any able-bodied
man, who does not meet with
some serious mischance, can by
steady work and careful manage
ment get out of the one-horse
class, and get a farm of his own.
We do not say it will be easy for
him to do this, for often it will
not: but, barring unusually ser
ious accidents, it can be done.
This is the first thing necessary,
for the man to have ambition
and confidence in himself.
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$36,875.10 LOST!
And Gone Forever! THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS! What Part Did You Lose?
The Winston market sold during month of October 1912, 6,075,971 Pounds of Tobacco for $990,793.58.
Brown's sold, - - 2023762 Pounds for $342272.64
All other houses sold 4052209 Pounds for $648520.94
6075971 $990793.58
Other Houses Averaged iloo! Difference 91 Cents a Hundred.
I Figure for yourself and you will see that the farmers that sold at other houses lost altogeher $36875.10. A big loss for
' independent people to lose. Won't you stop losing your part of this? And bring your tobacco to BROWN'S where you
I get the top every day. Breaks are not as large now and you should by all means stop this leak in your business. Come
on to BROWN'S and we will see that every pile of your tobacco goes to the top. We sell it high every day and do not
| have a high sale occasionally.
If you want your Tobacco sold HIGH every day and any day drive straight to BROWN'S
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for him to lie willing to work.
Good old-fashioned hard licks
still count and always will. Yet
we have all known men who
worked hard and seemed to try
hard to get ahead and still re
mained poor. Good management
is necessary as well as hard
work. The man who works his
muscles to exhaustion and lets
his mind idle is not likely to ac
complish much.
A whole lot of farmers, too, to
speak frankly, make this very
mistake. They don't do enough
down-right earnest thinking
about their work; they imagine
that the physical labor of farm
ing is the only kind of which
they are capable. We do not be
lieve this. Thought counts as
well as action, and the man who,
when he has a hard problem be
fore him, does not put his mind
to work on it, just like he puts
his body to work when he has a
log or a stump to get out of the
way of his plow, is only half
working. The mind grows by
exercise just as the muscles do,
and the man who is not willing
to think "until his head hurts,"
to find out what is best for him
to do is likely to have an unde
veloped and fiabby brain.
It is not necessary for the
farmer to imagine, however,
that he must work out all'of his
problems for himself. If he
waits to do that, most of them I
will never be so'ved. The poor
man who wishes to get ahead j
should be a reading man. He j
should read about his work—in
farm papers, in experiment
station and national department
bulletins, in books on agriculture
as he gets able to buy them.
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Such reading, if done with judg
ment, has a direct cash value. It
will bring in the dollars.
It is not a safe plan to depend
on one crop alone; it does
not pay to plant crops in poor
ly prepared seed-bed; you
can get nitrogen for your
corn and cotton by the
growing of clover and cowpeas,
much cheaper than by buying
it in a fertilizer.
The man with little capital has
these facts at his command. He
wants to apply them. A man
does not have to have two horses
or improved implements to en
jable him to rotate his crops.
! They make it easier for him, of
j course, just as it is easier for him
' to make a good seed-bed or tend
1 his crops properly with two-horse
implements. Yet he can take
I his one-horse tools and do good
' work. The man with one horse
and one pig needs as much to
study how to feed these animals,
and needs to care for them just
as faithfully, as does the man
with a barn full of stock. The
horse and pig may mean more to
the first man than whole herds
and flocks to the other.
So again, it is just as import
ant for the man with a ten-acre
crop to buy his fertilizer to ad
' vantage as it is for the man with
hundreds of acres. And, if he 1
I will study the subject, he can
' find right here a help to getting
; ahead, just as he will have here
a hindrance to his progress if he
iis guided only by guesswork or
I force of habit.
! So. once more, the man with
: only a few acres of land can care
I for that land, and feed and fat
ten it, and make it profitable to
| cultivate, just as readily as can
! the man with thousands of acres,
and he needs to do it just as
! much.
In short, the way for the poor
i farmer to become a well-to-do
1 farmer is for him to be a good
j farmer, too. He will not, of
| course, be able to do everything
! just as he wishes or to follow
j the verv best methods always.
] Few people are. He can certain
ly pay attention to the essentials
lof good farming, and do what
|he does well and for a pur
pose.
Right here let us say that
in our opinion, the am
bitious man with small capital
should buy a home if he possibly
can. If he cannot do this, he
can rent a place for a term of
years. The man who has to
move every year or two has a
poor chance to get ahead,
and, as one of our correspondents
says this week, it is cheaper to
pay interest than rent. This
one definite piece of advice we
can give along with the rather
general statement already made:
The thing for the goor man to
do is to buy a home of his own.
If it is only ten acres, it will
give something to work on and
to put his savings into, as well
las standing and credit in .the
I community.
These suggest another
thought. Our poor and am
bitious farmer should avoid debt
as he would the "Old Harry,"
if that debt be for luxuries or
for living expenses. One of the
great curses of the South has
| been the dependence of so many
I farmers upon a crop yet unmade
! for their daily subsistence. The
i man who would get ahead must
| not get in the habit of eating
I and wearing out things he has
1 not paid for, and certainly must
not mortgage his future for
mere pleasures or dissipation.
This warning against debt
| does not apply, however, to
debts of investment. Indeed,
we believe in debts of this kind.
If a man can buy a piece of land
;on credit, make enough off of it
to pay the interest and someth
ing on the land, and can thus
! furnish himself a home which
j may be increasing in value all
the time, he should certainjy do
it. Such a debt is a sign of
thrift and enterprise, and the
opportunity to make such a pur
chase is open to any man of good
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So, if a horse isf needed, or an
j implement, or anything which
I will enable him to make enough
: more money than he could with
out it to be able to pay for it in a
reasonable time, he should buy
, that thing, and not be afraid of
! the debt. A debt of this kind is
jan investment; one of the kind
'first mentioned is a burden which
must be carried and from which
no return can be expected.
Finally, let us say that there
j is, we believe, a chance for any
I man, however poor, if he has
! ambition, energy, and a good
! character, to start in farming,
I make a decent living and become
financially independent. He can
not do this, however, unless he
gives attention to saving as well
| as to earning, and unless he puts
I brain as well as muscle into his
Iwork, and adopts the methods
and practices of good farming.
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