Farms And Farming

We often heat the expression "farming don't pay." In f act the statement is made so often by farmers tnemselves that people generally believe it. But by a carefnl review of the business world, and coinparing the snocess of the farmers with that of other branches of business, we are led to believe that farrning is tbe safest business aud pays as well as any branoh of labor. It is true that the proflts in farming are not as large as in forruer years, wbich is also true of any business - if the statement of business meu is correct. There have been more fp.ilures among business men in the last ten years thtin amoug farmars compared to uumbers. Large factories and corporations have gone into the hands of receivers ; business firms have made assiguments; banks have been closed and bankers have suoided because of losses; old and reliable merchants have gone to the wall; the stock of Mabley & (Jo., of Detroit, mnst be sold to satisfy the mortgages; and Winans, the large dry goods merohant of the same city, drowned himself in Detroit river rather than meet his oreditors. It is trne that inany farras have beeu sold on mortgageu. Those wbo bought land a few years ago and gave a mortgage for half the value exepecting pnces to continue, in man y oases have lost them. But at present prices the man w bo buys a good farm cannot miss it. A few days ago we were riding out in the country aud stopped at the home of W. J. Wacker, who is reuting tbe Fellows farm, in Sharon, near the Freedom line. He rented this farm abou't two years ago and will stay another year if JMr. Fellows does not sell the whole or a part of it. Wacker pays a gond rent, but he had seen enough of i!m world to know that he had better yay a good price for a good farm thau luke a poor one at any price. He threshtd over 1,400 bushels of grain this seásou and has just flnished huskiug 4,500 bushels of corn. He is feeding 230 Montana sheep aud they are looking fine. From onr observation we are convinced that a man who rents a good farm or owns one and attends to business can make as good a living and get along as well farming as at anytbing else.