81 LIFE, NOT MERELY 



MAKING A LIVING 



is still crying need for more work at the house or 

 somewhere on the fields until he gets so worn and 

 discouraged that he has not time or the energy 

 even to make a shelter for his machine or to take 

 his tools in out of the rain. 



But just such thoroughness, just that kind of 

 care is necessary to success in any business; for 

 the husbandman it is practicable only on the lit- 

 tle plot, or what is practically a lot of little plots. 



The successful grocer and the successful cot- 

 ton spinner start their business near their cus- 

 tomers, or near their labor; we must start our 

 garden or our little onion farm in the same way. 

 The price of land will quickly teach us that we 

 can get but little of such land, and that therefore 

 we must use it to the very best advantage. 



For that is what the best department stores 

 and the best bankers and wholesalers do; they 

 get the best possible situated bit of land regard- 

 less of the price, and put it to the best possible 

 use. But the farmer is often working on a 

 place that is literally worth less than nothing, for 

 the whole outfit will generally sell for less than 

 the fences, drains, buildings, and the "good 



