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is begun. In the business world this is always 

 done. Can the farmer, whose profits are often 

 small, afford to ignore the wise usages of all 

 mercantile enterprises ? 



Are the gains as set forth at the end of the 

 year satisfactory! This farmer has provided 

 home employment for himself and family at fair 

 wages, a moderate interest on all his property, 

 including household goods and a fair profit in 

 addition. If he had placed the money, $6,138.25 

 (less household goods) at interest, gone to town, 

 rented a house, secured work as best he could, 

 and lived out of the grocery, would he have im- 

 proved his condition financially or otherwise f 



Most men are mentally lazy; most men are not 

 physically lazy. Ten men can be secured to cast 

 up banks of earth rapidly and correctly where one 

 man can be secured who can cast up columns of 

 figures rapidly and correctly. In country and city 

 alike muscle is cheap and abundant; trained in- 

 tellect is scarce and dear. Of course, half -trained 

 intellectual workers are so abundant that it is a 

 wonder where they all come from. It is a little 

 depressing to feel, as these lines are being writ- 

 ten, when the mercury is fluctuating around ninety 

 degrees, that not one in ten who reads these lines 

 will make persistent and intelligent effort to find 

 out where he stands financially with the world, 

 or what branch or branches of his business are 



