1891.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 333 



ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS IN FARMING. 



BY P. M. HARWOOD OF BAKKE. 



Human happiness, and not wealth, as many suppose, is 

 the great object of human effort. The question, then, of 

 how to obtain happiness or success in life, becomes a most 

 important one to the young, and a most interesting one to 

 all. And in no degree is this less true of farmers than of 

 those engaged in other occupations. If farming is the 

 occupation chosen, then success in farming should be the 

 ambition and form the purpose of the farmer's life, to 

 the end that he may, in so far as his business is concerned, 

 add not only to his own happiness, but as well to the com- 

 fort and happiness of all those about him, — his family, his 

 neighbors, his friends, his townspeople, and the State. 

 This purpose in life is an all-important essential to success. 

 Without it, no one will succeed. With a well-defined pur- 

 pose, and a determination to adhere to it through whatever 

 difficulties, the battle of life is half won before a gun is fired. 

 Even after this labor ceases to become drudgery, all effort 

 becomes directed to the accomplishment of the ends in view ; 

 blows count, and life itself is clothed with renewed beauty. 

 Most people have a purpose, even though it be the purpose 

 of a day. But the great difference between marked successes 

 and multitudinous failures lies in the difference in the rna<mi- 

 tude and grandeur of the purpose primarily, and secondarily 

 in the manner in which that purpose is carried out. 



I apprehend that much of the comparative failure among 

 farmers is due to the half-heartedness with which they engage 

 in their work. Some are there because ill health has driven 

 them from the cities to seek the invigorating air of the 



