338 EOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



produce move, call business principles to his aid, and some 

 day he will wake up to find that farming, even with him, 

 pays. 



Industry. 

 I have said that farmers, too many of them, place no 

 adequate value upon time. Point me to a single successful 

 one among them, if you can, who does not value time and 

 make the most of it. Industry is a habit, and it is one of 

 the few good habits to be formed, and should be formed in 

 youth. The industrious farmer will be up and doing in the 

 morning, while his less successful neighbor still sleeps ; and 

 he will plan to keep himself and his hired help occupied 

 during the day, and employed to advantage ; and if he is a 

 wise man, he will plan to do his work the easiest way, and 

 make it count for all that it is worth. He will also do well 

 that which he undertakes. It is not enough to produce a 

 superior article ; the article should be put up and sold in a 

 superior manner. All the work is then of a superior quality, 

 and a superior price is the result. The industrial habit is 

 the first round to the ladder of success ; like the first round 

 in all ladders, it should be one of the strongest. 



Economy. 

 One of hardest lessons for every man to learn is that 

 of economy. This, too, is a habit, and must be acquired; 

 all the better if acquired in early life. It is an absolute 

 essential to success in farming. The rule is inexorable : 

 " Spend less than you earn, be the latter ever so little." 

 TVe often wonder at the number of successful men who 

 began life in poverty. I apprehend that the enforced lesson 

 of doing with but little in early life was of incalculable value 

 to them, indeed, was one of the corner-stones of the founda- 

 tions of their success. No doubt they thought their lot in 

 early life hard ; no doubt they shrink from the thought that 

 their children may be required to endure like hardships. 

 Here is a point, however, worth considering. Is not the 

 easiest way to succeed in any business, farming included, 

 to begin at the bottom of the ladder and work up, — grow 

 up with the business, as we say? The road looks long and 



