THE YOUNG FARMER: 

 SOME THINGS HE SHOULD KNOW 



CHAPTER I 

 ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS 



COLUMELLA, the much traveled 

 Spanish-Roman writer of the first 

 century A. D., said that for successful 

 farming three things are essential: knowl- 

 edge, capital and love for the calling. This 

 statement is just as true today as it was when 

 written 1900 years ago by this early writer 

 on European agriculture. 



Every man who loves the calling and has 

 an ambition to become a successful farmer 

 should understand that no two of these 

 essentials are sufficient, but that all three 

 are necessary. Although this is so simple 

 as to be almost axiomatic, it is indeed sur- 

 prising how few people believe a knowl- 

 edge of farming is really essential to success. 



America is strewn with cases of failure, 

 in farming, by men investing capital ac- 



