ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS 



about which he has spent years of study 

 and in which he has had some training, he 

 would invest it in farming, of which he has 

 only the most rudimentary knowledge, if 

 only he had sufficient capital. As a matter 

 of fact, he is more in need of knowledge 

 than of capital. 



Even farmers of experience do not always 

 realize the training required to succeed in 

 farming. A letter was received by the dean 

 of a certain agricultural college saying that 

 a graduate of another agricultural college 

 had taken one of the poorest farms in his 

 neighborhood and was raising better pota- 

 toes than anyone else could raise. The let- 

 ter asked that information be sent by return 

 mail as to how this young man could be 

 beaten in raising potatoes. Of course the 

 answer had to be sent that while informa- 

 tion upon raising potatoes could easily be 

 supplied, although not in the limits of an 

 ordinary letter, the training in observation, 

 judgment and reasoning faculties essential 

 to meet the daily problems as they arise 

 could not be supplied. 



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