XXXY. 



ACCOUNTS IN FARMING. 



FARMERS, it is urged, sometimes fail ; and this is 

 unfortunately true of them, as of all others. Some 

 fail in integrity ; others in sobriety ; many in ca- 

 pacity ; most in diligence ; but not a few in method 

 or system. Quite a number fail because they under- 

 take too much at the outset ; that is, they run into 

 debt for more land than they have capital to stock 

 or means to fertilize, and are forced into bankruptcy 

 by the interest ever-accruing upon land which they 

 are unable to cultivate. If they should get ahead a 

 little by active exertion throughout the day, the in- 

 terest would overtake and pass them during the en- 

 suing night. 



Few of the unsuccessful realize the extent to which 

 their ill fortune is fairly attributable to their own 

 waste of time. Men not naturally lazy squander 

 hours weekly in the village, or at the railroad station, 

 without a suspicion that they are thus destroying 

 their chances of success in life. To-day is given up 

 to a monkey-show ; half of to-morrow is lost in at- 

 tendance on an auction ; part of next day is spent at 



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