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Show A CONTEMPORARY wonders why so many men fail at primary, and adds that a majority of rich men when they are overcome by a desire to own a farm and buy one, fail to make expenses from it. We should say that the chief reason is, want of knowledge. They know nothing of the business; nothing of soils and what will grow from them; notnmg of live stock and how to make it profitable; nothing of how to handle and treat horses that work; nothing noth-ing of horticulture or how to prevent the diseases of plants they buy the farm as a toy and all they get from it, is tho "brief ipleasure of ownership. IT- , Were a farmer to decide that he had worked ' t long enough and that ho would go to town and put out his shinglo as a lawyer, no one would be surprised sur-prised if ho was not overrun by clients. To be an accomplished farmer requires as much prepaiation as to be an accomplished lawyer, and neither the lawyer nor the farmer will ever succeed unless they have a natural aptitude for the wonc. |