CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS ON THE FARM. 47 



CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS ON THE FARM. 

 WORCESTER SOUTH. 



[From an Essay.] 



BY HENKY E. HITCHCOCK. 



The conditions of success and the methods to be adopted 

 to attain it are so iutimatel}^ related, that they may be pre- 

 sented togetlier without doing any serious violence to either 

 logical or methodical arrangement. The conditions of suc- 

 cessful farming are not essentially different from those 

 belonging to other pursuits : the first that I shall name is, 

 that the business must be adopted from choice, instead of 

 necessity. After a careful, intelligent, and deliberate survey 

 of the whole range of business opportunities, our hero has 

 decided that his tastes, inclinations, judgment, and means 

 point toward farming as the best vocation for him, and he 

 accordingly adopts it. Knowing that nothing succeeds with- 

 out effort, well-directed and persevering effort, he brings 

 all the energies of his physical and mental constitution to 

 bear upon the end in view : nothing will be done or 

 attempted at hap-hazard. Before deciding whether to 

 engage in general farming, or some special branch, he will 

 consider the questions of the nature and capacity of the soil 

 he has to cultivate, the demand of the market for this or 

 that product, his facilities for supplying that demand, and 

 the competition he will have to encounter. But I must not 

 forget that the man is not the only factor in this problem : 

 the other, and by no means the least important one, is a 

 helpmeet for him in the person of one of the other sex; 

 one who is in full sympathy with his aims and purposes, who 

 will be to him a wise counsellor, a judicious friend, and a 

 faithful helper, in a word, his veritable other self. As a fur- 



