Show how to get rich is a question that is agitating a good many people some are hunting for gold mines others seeking bargains but the farmers as a class are the most contented of our community As a general rule there are very few farmers whom you may call rich and there are none poor all are comfortably situated some few however among tho farmers are seeking wealth and they commonly think it casary to leave the farm to acquire it the ENQUIRER would suggest that it is hardly necessary to leave the old homestead to acquire riches if a farmer will launch forth into something now dont always keep in the same channel as your neighbors in other words if they all sow oats this season you sow something else As a single instance in the way or production there is a sure competence in forest planting our wood reserve is growing smaller very steadily and our timber supply is rapidly being exhausted it is true that wood is being displaced largely in the economies and for fuel and tha cheapening of aluminium and tho introduction of gas and electricity and petroleum work or will work great changes in the same direction but not to such an extent that the demand for wood and timber will not be greater than the supply the owner of fine timber trees fifty years from now will be sure of a happy income while the planter of wheat or of corn may reap a speedy fortune the chances aro about nine to one against him he is more likely to swamp himself in mortgages and go to the auctioneer crops that make a speedy return must be combined BO that if one or two fail the rest will heat the producer for the year the old lesson however is not one that most young men are willing to learn they wish not to establish a happy home but to get rich it is seldom that a man gets more than two trials in life before he is out of hope and pluck so we get our tramps and parasites |